May News Update

• Commerce & Employment business plan review with Chief Officer Jon Buckland
• G4 Summit – panel and audience discussion between IOD, CGI, GIBA and Chamber
• Leale’s Yard development plans presented at the Vale Douzaine Room
• Housing Licence charging system presentations covering how much and how to go about it
• Why doesn’t Government build multi-storey car parks at Beau Sejour, North Beach and Sir Charles Frossard House saving wasted traffic congestion
• Guernsey Finance Breakfast Seminar with Commerce & Employment and Chamber to explore the G20 white listing of Guernsey
• Annual Chamber Dinner confirmed for Friday 27 November at the Royal Court for drinks reception then to St James
• Chamber position reference Liberation Day public holiday hours released
• Early discussions regarding whether maternity leave should become law in Guernsey
• Minister Bernard Flouquet attends Chamber Council to update on PSD issues
• Attendance at the Intellectual Property Office seminar on behalf of Chamber members
• Invest Northern Ireland executives visited the Island and met with Chambers Legal, Finance & Tax sub group
• Welsh Audit Office briefing in relation to Scrutiny’s, work stream on governance in Guernsey government
• Advocate Peter Harwood attended Chamber’s monthly lunch seminar to review effectiveness of government since the Harwood Report in 2004
• Second round of the States “Guernsey Tomorrow” interactive workshops
• Commerce & Employment next stage briefings in creating “starter units” for new small businesses
• Chamber comment given to the Gang of Five deputies to their alternative borrowing report
• OUR Report on Guernsey air licensing regulations issued for discussion
• States report due any day on the Solid Waste proposal from PSD
• States report due any day on the Pension Puzzle proposals from SSD

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