Bailiwick Podcasts

During the NatWest International Island Games cycling events, a tantalising mix of speed and tactics will play out on and off the roads.

Express learns more about the upcoming events from team members Alex Van Katwyk and Hannah Brehaut.

There's a mixture of experienced players and newcomers within Guernsey's women's football squad for this year's Island Games. 

Coaches Anna Gauvain and her sister Katie Watson have been working with them to build on lessons learnt at this year's Muratti. 

Anna told Laura Clayton what they're hoping to achieve at this year's Games.

Guernsey’s men face a tough draw in the football. Manager Tony Vance tells Express how they are preparing for the challenges they will face both on and off the pitch 

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 concerns about diverted prescriptions continually being raised, and an island now flooded with cannabis, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what is going on.

Deputy Marc Leadbeater is a member of HSC and figurehead in the cannabis industry, he sat down with me to clear up the myths around cannabis and share his positive thoughts for the future… 

Joyce Farugia from Team Gozo tells Laura Clayton about Gozo, the island's journey to join the Island Games family, her hopes for Gozitain athletes, the island's preparations for Guernsey 2023, and Gozo's plans for future Games. 

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.

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.

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 Podcasts, Charlie Flynn spoke to Sasha Gibb, former art director of CCA galleries and the founder of the Public Voice: Common Ground project.

We try to nail down exactly what we mean by ‘the public realm’, the importance of public spaces that work for everyone, and how you can your say on what Jersey’s common places should look like.

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...