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With less than a week to go - concerns and confusion surround | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Date to update them, you cannot just kick people out and it got up to | :00:12. | :00:23. | |
live. People need security. Good evening and welcome to the late | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
news from BBC Channel Islands, Also tonight - Commercial waste | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
charge gets the green light New laws governing who can live | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
and work in Guernsey were debated by the States today - | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
less than a week before they're Some businesses and property-owners | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
want the laws to be delayed, claiming that they'll harm | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
the economy and that most islanders Why is this important? In simple | :00:52. | :01:08. | |
terms it will dictate who can live and work in Guernsey and for how | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
long. Conditions are local | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
properties and much more. They have been used in the making | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
that late attempt to derail the new laws seem to have | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
fallen on deaf ears. The deputy suggests | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
just a few tweaks. Do islanders really understand how | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
the changes will impact on them? I know they will affect | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
but I'm not sure. I live with my boyfriend | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
is why on his I know the licence | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
regime has to change. They need to have people here, you | :01:39. | :01:53. | |
can just kick people out. People need security if they're going to | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
live here. There's still plenty and 70 | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
about what the changes will mean for islanders and that will remain | :01:58. | :02:06. | |
to that list the end Following today's debate | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
in the States I spoke to Mark and asked what progress had been | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
made today. There are five proposed changes to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
the plans are just two doubles have been dealt with today. The first | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
called for a review of the laws and it will now happen by early 2019 | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
carried out by the policy and resources committee and the home | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
affairs committee. The bulk of today has been spent discussing what | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
birthrights children born in Guernsey should have when it comes | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
to living and working in the island. That was an amendment for all | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
children do have the same rights and that was eventually thrown out. We | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
have not seen any move by any deputy to throw out the whole package and | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
that was something that had been called for by members of the | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
business community. The leader of the Chamber of Commerce is | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
disappointed not to have seen that yet. Not disappointed at all because | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
we have seen good democracy in action. The fine details, the points | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
of the law are being challenged and we have some very sensible | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
suggestions being made which will better reflect customer work | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
practices and they will be reflected in the law, so looking forward to | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
the debate tomorrow hoping we keep moving in the right direction but | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
also it's great that policy and resources will review the law and we | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
will hope that policy and resources are going to look at it much more in | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
terms of what is a long-term economic, how we can make the island | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
as resilient and sustainable and grow vibrantly in the future and | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
think we're more likely hear about those noises. Are you saying you are | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
less worried it will be damaging for the economy? It will hang on what | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
happens tomorrow. If we are preserving three months or nine | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
months in Guernsey, three months off, then that is going to be good | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
news for reflecting how people can work in continuing going forward. We | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
hope that the politicians will have an engaging debate tomorrow and | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
we'll conclude that is something we really need to preserve. More debate | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
tomorrow. Three more amendment still to be discussed and we'll bring you | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
the latest on those as we get them. Jersey's government is allocating | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
nearly a million pounds for a review into how to keep the island's | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
financial services sector It'll look in particular | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
at the potential opportunities and challenges due to the UK | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
leaving the EU. Meanwhile, Jersey's external affairs | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
minister has responded to concerns that the island will become more | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
vulnerable to being persuade people in Europe that we | :04:33. | :04:52. | |
are transparent and open jurisdiction, that we are not a | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
threat to Europe in anyway and that quite the contrary, we actually | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
contribute to Europe in the sense of supporting employment and supporting | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
tax revenues in the European Union states. | :05:07. | :05:07. | |
There are calls for tougher laws forcing Guernsey taxi drivers | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
At the moment there's no legal requirement for car | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
But today the States urged parents and taxi drivers | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
to use common sense, as Jessica Banham reports. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
It's something many of us do every day, | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Strapping your child in for the school run. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
And you wouldn't dream of not using a car seat. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
But what if you need to go somewhere using one of these? | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
We ordered a taxi when my son was probably 18 months | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
and I had my own car seat but there wasn't enough room | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
for all of us so the taxi driver explained that we could put my son | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
on my lap with the seat belt which I wasn't | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Over in the UK, taxi drivers are exempt from having | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
And here in Guernsey, there's currently no legal | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
requirement for drivers to use them IF there isn't one available. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
It's something that parents have been criticising | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
after a local mum struggled to find a firm that | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Samantha Bisson commented that this is "so not ok". | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Young children need to travel securely in a car. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
While Liz Taylor-Kerr called it ridiculous and said she'd faced | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
a similar problem elsewhere but Kirsten Jameson admitted | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
she struggles to fit her suitcases in the boot of a taxi - | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
It would be very awkward to carry one round with you - | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
you'd be limited to do other fares with car seats in the back so it | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Over in Jersey - legislation brought in last year means taxis now have | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
But today Guernsey's states said it was unrealistic to expect | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
all drivers to offer a range of child seats, and that | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
some do own them and can provide one when asked. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Jessica Banham, BBC Channel Islands News, Guernsey | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Over a hundred pounds per tonne of solid rubbish, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and water bills almost doubling - those are the new charges facing | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
The waste tax has been agreed in principle as part | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
It's an incentive to stop the growing amount of rubbish thrown | :07:10. | :07:23. | |
away but a new commercial waste charge is worrying industries, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
especially hospitality. We can't pass this tax onto people, so where | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
is it supposed to come from? Are we supposed to absorb this and just put | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
up with it or what? I think it's quite harsh and it's unfair. Despite | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
their concerns the states gave the new waste tax the green light | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
without knowing how the costs would be worked out but now they've been | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
released. So what can businesses expect to pay. Solid waste will be | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
charged at ?150 per tonne and be a bit more for bulky rubbish but | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
cheaper for a cycle bulls. Liquid waste will be calculated on the | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
volume used and to pound 27 per volume used and to pound 27 per | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
cubic metre and that will be applied to 95% of metered water going into | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the business, as it is assumed that is how much goes out in waste. The | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
minister behind it says they are not making a profit. These figures cover | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
the cost generated by commercial waste, so it's feared they pay for | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
services on the island use our services on the island use our | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
disposal services and they each pay their fair amount, so is creating a | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
level playing field between those level playing field between those | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
businesses and it means that the general taxpayer, people like | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
yourself and other Islanders are not subsidising businesses. The new | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
charges still in the consultation stage but could be passed by the | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
states this summer. Lets take a look at the weather | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
now with Holly Green. We've got some decent weather to | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
come over the next few days, today we saw highs of 18 degrees in Jersey | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
and we will get higher than that tomorrow. Warm feeling, tomorrow is | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
the warmest day of the next few, hopefully some decent spells of | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
sunshine to be had and most should be dry. A decent chance of catching | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
a shower. We got low pressure which is dominating the Atlantic but | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
across France we have higher pressure and we are in the middle of | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the two and seeing some pretty fine conditions. Into tomorrow we start | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
to import southerly and south-easterly wind and bring some | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
warmer and slightly drier air across as so temperatures will rise a | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
little bit. Then into tomorrow night we see this cold front coming | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
through, so for Friday it slightly fresher but still mostly dry and | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
mostly bright and thickening us -- taking us into the weekend which | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
will see a bit of a drop. For tonight, some clear spells around, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
should be a largely dry picture, some cloud going and the breeze | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
around but mild tonight and temperatures staying in double | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
figures for most of us. For tomorrow it should be a decent day, just a | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
bit of a breeze around but southerly south-easterly drawing in that warm | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
air, sunny spells around and mostly bright picture for tomorrow and | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
temperatures easily reaching the mid to high teens and Jersey could get | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
up to 20 degrees. Times of high water here. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Nothing to complain about as we go through the coming days, drying and | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
bright conditions and sunshine to be had. There will be a bit of rain at | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
times and on Thursday night that might be the case and some showers | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
on Saturday and temperatures taking a tumble as we head toward the | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
weekend but certainly not bad for this time of year. One tomorrow and | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
slightly cooler for the weekend. That's your news this Wednesday | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
evening, BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey will have bulletins | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
from 6.00am tomorrow far. The outlook for the next few | :10:53. | :11:04. | |
days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer | :11:23. | :11:24. |