Politics

The Tynwald Select Committee, set up to investigate the MEA ‘affair’, took evidence from three current and former DTI officials on Tuesday morning (1st July); David Morter, former Director of Infrastructure Development, Chris Corlett, current Chief Executive, and Ken Bawden, ...

Former Tynwald Member and DLGE Minister, Dominic Delaney was guest speaker at last Thursday’s (26th June) Municipal Association AGM.  Held at the Glen Mona Hotel in Maughold, the well attended event, of a large number of local authority members, elected ...

For their final public event before a summer break Positive Action Group focuses on global affairs with a presentation by renowned international weapons inspector Hamish Killip. The invasion of Iraq by multi-national coalition forces in March 2003 was based on questionable ...

Members appeared to be in something of a ‘playground’ mood as there was a lot of banter between Members, some of it acrimonious; and at times the Speaker, Lonan MHK, Steve Rodan appeared somewhat exasperated and at a bit of ...

It became clear, during supplementary questioning, that the reason for Question 9, from Peter Karran, was to try to establish whether a deal had been struck to allow Tesco to relocate to a new green-field site on the edge of ...

Speaker of the House of Keys’, Steve Rodan, announced to Members, at the close of today’s Keys’ ‘Question Time’ (Tuesdays 24th June 2008), that the refusal by the Health Minister to provide an answer to the written question, from North ...

The Speaker of the House of Keys, Steve Rodan, paid a glowing tribute, at the close of today’s House of Keys (Tuesday 24th June 2008) to retiring Secretary of the house and Counsel to the Speaker, Malachy Cornwall-Kelly.  Mr Cornwall-Kelly, ...

East Douglas MHK, Brenda Cannell, Chairman of the ‘Scrutiny’ Committee, failed to win any support, from other Tynwald Members, to oppose the referring of the recently introduced immigration orders to her Committee for review.  Select Committee Chairman, House of Keys’ ...

Peter Karran, MHK, and fellow officers of the Liberal Vannin Party, have just returned from the 55th Congress of Liberal International held in Belfast, on 15 -17 May 2008; and hosted by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.   Mr ...

Monday’s (19th May 2008) Positive Action Group meeting was one of the most divisive ‘discussions’ organised so far by the Group.   In an occasional heated exchange of views, the contentious and emotive matter, of ‘should the Bishop have a ...