09/07/2014 BBC Channel Islands News

humbling of its hosts. That's all

A major shake`up of Guernsex's system

Under plans agreed today, the Chief Minister title will be

scrapped, with the States ldd by a president instead.

There'll be a new Policy and Finance Committee overseeing what

the States do and how to pax for it, and nine other committees t`king

It could potentially even mean fewer deputies.

Penny Elderfield's been following the debate and joined me earlier.

It is all about trying to hdlp the government do a better job. Better

when it comes to things likd leadership, coordination, and just

getting things done. Big ch`nges, particularly at the top. It is

outwith the policy Council `nd in with a new policy and finance

committee. Different becausd it won't, like now, be made up of all

of the heads of the other departments like education `nd

health because some feel th`t doesn't work at the moment. It is

not a cohesive committee. It is a grouping together of ministdrs who

each have their own mandates, their own particular responsibilities To

suggest that through that wd can create a committee that can then be

cohesive just does not work, and it hasn't worked.

So, the idea is this new colmittee could oversee everything, control

the cheque`book, and perhaps agree on things a bit more, though not

everyone agrees that the super committee is the way to go. The

other concerns I have, of course, is whether we are going to havd an

improvement on what we have already got. People have said that the

policy Council has not workdd, but I disagree. We have come throtgh

several crises through the policy Council and it has worked vdry well.

One question that everyone will want to know the answer to tonight is

when will these changes comd into play? All the details still needs to

be worked out, including Hanley deputies there needs to be. Come the

next election, not only could the system of government change, but the

size of it too. A Jersey teenager has been

describing the moment he was attacked by a Polar bear,

which killed his friend durhng Patrick Flinders suffered hdad

injuries after the bear got into 17`year`old Horatio Chapple

was mauled to death. One after another, the young people

who were on that expedition to the Arctic three years ago described

what happened on the night that the Wiltshire teenager was killdd. First

was Patrick Flinders from Jdrsey, who still has the scratch m`rks on

his face from where he was caught by the polar bear when it workdd his

way into their tent that night. He said he was terrified. He closed his

eyes and hid in his sleeping bag, hoping to protect himself. @nother

witness was Laurent Beach, who is from Guildford in Surrey. She was in

a nearby tent. She said that she and Horatio had found paw prints in the

eyes a couple of days beford the attack. She said after that the

group had a discussion about whether to have a look out, a patrol every

night, taking it in turns, but she said the group leaders had decided

against that. She said, unthl that attack, she had had full confidence

in the trip. She said, " I was 6. I trusted them completely". The

coroner is expected to give his verdict in this case here in

Wiltshire on Friday. The number of visitors to Jdrsey

last year dropped by about 6,50 Just over 680,000 people cale to

the island in 2013. There are now calls to incrdase

flights to Germany and tap hnto Work to repair the sea wall at Vazon

in Guernsey will begin This section of wall was majorly

damaged during the winter storms. It will be faced with granite

to match the existing wall. Kerbside recycling in Guernsey

appears to be working. Since collections started in March,

the amount of tins, paper and plastic being recxcled has

risen by 10%. Meanwhile, household waste going

to landfill has fallen by 10%. Dirty, decaying household w`ste

at Mont Cuet is on the decrdase while clean,

green recycling is on the rhse. And it seems that, since kerbside

collections started in the hsland, I've come to St Peter Port to meet

June, I recycle the bottles, milk cartons,

this is the papers, In fact, it feels so good, June s

got her daughter doing it too. But, while kerbside collecthons are

up 10%, still the only way that glass can be

recycled is at banks like these So you have to do it

the old`fashioned way. But soon, these bottle banks

may be a thing of the past. The trial which we will test is

will it be too noisy And also,

will there be contamination if we But, the department is very

committed to seeing glass as part of the kerbside recycles scheme

It would make so much sense. The States

of Guernsey are making recycling a top priority, and one thing's for

sure ` any excuses for not sorting Thank you for watching. When asked

tomorrow at 6:30pm. Goodbye. Hello, good evening. Our we`ther

pattern is not changing that much over the next couple of days, but we

will see more cloud and higher temperatures as we draw in `ir from

the Nick Compton. Tomorrow hs a fine and dry day with some sunshhne.

Still a bit of a breeze, but not as strong as today. We have got to

areas of cloud trying to get to us, one from the West of Ireland and

another developing in an arda of low pressure across the other shde of

Europe. That will bring mord cloud towards us over the next cotple of

days. Expect to see an incrdasing amount of cloud towards the end of

the week. Tonight, a fine and dry night with good visibility, and

temperatures down to 15. Those wins will drop a little bit too.

Tomorrow, a nice day with stnshine for much of the day. More in the way

of cloud towards the end of the afternoon. It will not spoil the day

and it remains dry. Not quite as breezy as it has been, but still

quite a keen breeze from thd north`west. Here is the fordcast for

the rest of this week: and humid, with heavy and under in

showers. Today has been the quietest weather

day of this week. We had 24 Celsius in Carlisle in the sunshine. It did

struggle on the North Sea coast with the wind, but you can see two

weather fronts advancing in under the mass of cloud. Our window for

fine weather will diminish overnight stop it has been windy. North Sea

Gales, and that wind continues overnight. Patchy rain for