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…
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Splitting of the Seneschal’s Dual Role
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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…
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Vineyard Protests
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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…
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Is Sark Going to Have Land Reform?
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Sark’s Democratically Approved Democratic Reform?
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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…
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Electricity Regulation, or, A Tale of Two Monopolies
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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…