The big story of this week is the publication of the Isle of Sark Shipping accounts. Let us remind those readers not familiar with this fact that the company received a massive government bailout only a few years ago. The…
On 10 April 2013, at their Easter meeting, Chief Pleas approved the spending of £5,000 to test electromagnetic radiation levels on Sark, because of a concern that the said radiation may be causing cancers. Two young people on Sark were…
As Sark debates whether or not to appoint a full time civil servant, we are reminded of the following (true) story. One interesting case was a 44-year-old French man, whose brain had been reduced to little more than a thin…
On 7 January 2013, Guernsey Press reported an unnamed consultant from Southampton General Hospital, who had treated two Sark youngsters with Burkitt’s lymphoma, expressing concern that these cases had happened in such a small area. It is certainly the case…
Phil Falle complains in today’s Guernsey Press that an unbroken line, which has been an integral part of Sark’s history for the last 338 years, is to be broken. … The title of seneschal was instituted by letters patent in…
The year was 1988 and Slobodan Milošević, then little known outside Yugoslavia, was President of Serbia. “Spontaneous” protests started to arise outside parliaments of other Yugoslavian republics. The protests were mostly peaceful but clearly intended to bully and intimidate and…
In today’s Guernsey Press, Peter Roffey writes that “the people of Sark agreed and voted for democratic reform in a historic referendum.” The opinion poll (not a referendum) which Mr. Roffey presumably refers to, which was held in 2006, asked…
At next Wednesday’s Chief Pleas, the GP&A Committee are proposing to introduce regulation of electricity production. The Committee see it as their duty to ensure that Sark Electricity isn’t making “excess” profits “at the expense of the Community”. The Sarkee…
So BBC Radio 4 did a report on Sark yesterday. Their reporter, Sarah Montague, told us that democracy on Sark is under threat. No kidding? And I thought the UK brought us democracy in 2008. That’s when the nice, do-gooding…