The Interview

The ongoing fight against the threat of asian hornets continues with this year's 'Track don't Trample' phase.  Francis Russell explains why we need to track the insects to try and eradicate them, rather than trampling them when we spot them. July 24, 2023

Vicky Godley is the Headteacher of St Sampson's High School.  A year after Ofsted said her school was inadequate, a monitoring report has found progress is being made in different areas.  She explained what has been done to improve things and what still needs to happen.   July 20, 2023

As many as one in six couples struggle with infertility, which is classed as a disease by the World Health Organisation. Yet sadly there is often a stigma and taboo that surrounds it. Kelly Frost spoke to Chloé Fosse, the founder of local charity Tiny Seeds, about infertility, IVF treatment, and the cost-of-living pressures placed on couples undergoing treatment. Following a recent survey which ex...

The Guernsey Employment Trust helps people with disabilities find and maintain employment. Rosa is one of GET's successful clients. She, her support worker Kate, and Niamh who worked with Rosa at Guernsey Post, explained how GET's processes work. And, Nikki - the GET Chief Officer - explained why their work is so important July 3, 2023

'The World's Toughest Row' takes a crew 3000 miles west from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Nelson's Dockyard in Antigua. It involves constant rowing, waves up to 30 feet high, sleep deprivation, sea-sickness, salt sores and blisters. Kelly Frost spoke to Intrepid232, an incredible crew of four Jersey mums (Julie Brady, Alison Smithurst, Helene Monpetit and Rosemary Satchwell) who are training...

Guernsey’s relationship with cannabis is complicated. While the CBD and THC industry was heralded to be major economic enabler for the islander, legal redtape has ended up strangling it at birth. Major industry bodies have moved off island, taking their business with them; meanwhile, the island’s budding medicinal cannabis market continues to morph into a multi-million pound enterprise. With conce...

On the eve of the Island Games, and the back of another Muratti loss, Nick Mann was joined by Guernsey manager Tony Vance, to talk about the future of local football and the need for drastic change to drive up standards. June 23, 2023

Bailiwick Express meets Enid Quenault, a former Deputy and Constable of St Brelade whose decades of service to the island has been marked with a new health and wellbeing centre in the former Les Quennevais School being named after her. June 22, 2023

Parks, pavements, benches, squares, statues, sculptures. They’re all spaces that belong firmly in the public realm, spaces that belong to each and every one of us.    But how do we make the most of these places? How do we gauge what the community needs from their shared space and how can we use the public realm to tackle some of societies trickiest problems?    In this episode of Bailiwick Podcast...

This week Express was joined by the CEO of Guernsey Electricity, Alan Bates, to talk about the recently released Electricity Strategy and GEL's role in it. Mr Bates talks about the need for an interconnected, how GEL were involved in developing the strategy and why a renewable future will actually cost less... June 12, 2023

Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez speaks about her committee's recently released Electricity Strategy. In it, the Committee for the Environment and Infrastructure recommended that Guernsey should pursue a new interconnected with France, while developing solar and wind power to meet our increasing needs for electricity. She told Express' News Editor, Matthew Leach, that the response to the strategy has b...

The Jersey Opera House, which first opened its doors in 1900, is one of the island's most iconic buildings and a fundamental part of Jersey's cultural life.     The theatre, which has seen the likes of Lily Langtry and Ian McKellen tread its boards, closed its doors in March 2020 and has been shut ever since with renovation work rumbling on seemingly indefinitely.   However, it looks like there mi...

The States are being faced with an impossible decision, finish the Hospital Modernisation Project or complete the Education Programme. It was never meant to come to this, but tight public finances will force at least one very important capital project to be mothballed, unless a compromise can be reached before July’s capital projects debate. After being invited to the PEH to revisit just how impor...

Rugby and mental health are two things that rarely appear in the same conversation – but one rugby player who recently retired is seeking to change that. Guy Thompson began his professional career with the Jersey Reds and has played with top-level clubs like Wasps, Leicester Tigers, and Ealing Trailfinders. Since 2015, he has been an ambassador for LooseHeadz, an organisation which works to fight...

Lauren Lee is a singer based in South Africa. Her experiences of pre-eclampsia and the premature birth of her son led to her current single 'To Womb it may Concern'. She's working with charities across the world to share her message of hope with other parents of premature babies, and will be joining in the 20th anniversary celebrations for the Priaulx Premature Baby Foundation later this year too,...

Women's Health Day Special Since 1987, May 28th has been recognised as the International Day of Action for Women's Health. In celebration this year, Kelly Frost spoke to Jessica Pinel, a registered nutritionist, certified health coach and founder of Humankynd Nutrition, which specialises in one-to-one fertility and period nutrition advice. Jessica also recently began to provide classes on period h...

Another Guernsey Literary Festival has come and gone in what’s been described as a record breaking year for the events. Over 7,000 people piled into venues across the island to hear from a wide range of writers, poets, speakers and personalities. Express sat down with Festival Director, Claire Allen, and its Marketing and Press Officer, Nick Le Messurier to look back and wrap up on another success...

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen spoke to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey. This third podcast touches briefly on the ongoing public debate surrounding the funding of the Guernsey Sports Commission. Deputy Dudley-Owen says ESC will work to support the Commission, but funding allocation does need to be looked at...

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen spoke to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey. This second podcast explores the route Guernsey’s education system has taken so far and what happens next. Deputy Dudley-Owen touches on the difficulty of getting her committee’s message across, the battle against the false narrative an...

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen speaks to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey. Our first conversation touched on ChatGPT, and the future of technology in the classroom and during early years development.  She says, while the introduction of increasingly powerful AI is concerning, its incorporation into the school...

This week, Express and the JEP have launched a series investigating Our Throwaway Society . Jersey's Recycling Officer, Piers Tharme, explains why he thinks it is in everyone's best interests to use less and reuse and recycle more, even if the financial costs don't quite yet stack up. But by changing our behaviour, he argues, they probably soon will.... May 11, 2023

Despite being less well-known than its St. Brelade counterpart,  La Cotte à la Chèvre is one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in Jersey, throwing up over 16,000 artefacts since it was first excavated in 1881.    A small cave near Grosnez where people may have lived and hunted up to 250,000 years ago, it is one of the earliest inhabited spots in the Channel Islands and one of the last...

Housing Minister and former Chief Minister discuss Jersey's housing and homelessness problems. One current and one former politician, who both spent a night sleeping rough in a car park last November, compare notes on politics, planning and people without homes. Housing Minister Deputy David Warr, and former chief minister and Chair of local charity Sanctuary Trust, Frank Walker OBE, discuss Jerse...

Deputy Peter Ferbrache has been the President of P&R for more than two years now and first stepped into island politics back in 1994. During the final episode of a series of podcasts  Express asked him what his experience has taught him and what he would change. He speaks on executive government, a reduction in deputies and his future position in the States Assembly… April 26, 2023

After nearly two years of discussing the potential purchase of a new vessel for Condor, P&R supported the ferry company in acquiring the MV Straitsman, a ferry from New Zealand that’ll be renamed the Islander. The route to purchase was a complicated one, involving an initial plan for the Guernsey Investment Fund to buy it and then a second plan that required the convening of the Civil Continge...