Well-off pensioners should have to pay up
Liberal Vannin leader Peter Karran says it’s crazy that pensioners on high incomes continue to get free dental care and prescriptions.The Onchan MHK has written to Chief Minister Allan Bell calling for...
View ArticleTime to start booking kids’ holiday activities
The Youth Service’s Holiday Venture Schemes include some additions to the traditional programme.Prices have also been low to help parentand an early bird discount is available for some activities....
View ArticleNew TT measures to help workers
Extra measures to ease traffic are to be put in place during this year’s TT to save drivers from being stranded if racing is delayed.This year, if the racing programme spills over into the evening, the...
View ArticleFighting poverty
Three more people have been selected to bring awareness about the reality of extreme poverty to the island.Helen Ashcroft of Port St Mary, Rosemary Clarke of Peel and Vicki Rowberry of Douglas have...
View ArticlePolice investigate after damage to uplands at Beary Mountain
Police say a scar across an area of heathland on Beary Mountain remains a mystery as their appeals have so far failed to elicit information.The land appears to have had a track gouged into it using...
View ArticleActing Attorney General says he took no part in Sefton bail-out arrangement
The acting Attorney General says he exerted no influence on the Sefton bail-out deal, despite being a shareholder in the group and its former legal advisor.Today’s Isle of Man Examiner speaks to John...
View Article‘Get house in order’ Cameron tells offshores
Prime Minister David Cameron has written to leaders of each of the crown dependencies and overseas territories stressing the need to get ‘our own houses in order’.His letter calls for more transparency...
View ArticleMan dies in diving incident
Police investigations are underway after a 51-year-old man died as a result of a diving incident in the south.Port Erin RNLI lifeboat ‘Muriel and Leslie’ responded to the call and went to the aid of...
View ArticleIsle of Man lingerie company is shaping up well
Celebrity customers are among many folk snapping up shapewear and lingerie from an Isle of Man company. Millions of TV viewers recently saw one of Esbelt’s products featured on ITV’s popular This...
View ArticleGovernment seeking bus drivers to break strike
The government is looking for anyone with a bus driver’s licence to come forward to help them to break the proposed strike over the TT festival.They are being asked to register tomorrow (Tuesday) from...
View ArticleTT course roadworks nearly completed
Roadworks on the TT course are nearly completed, the Department of Infrastructure says.It had a difficult challenge after the snowfall in March caused a lot of disruption.In addition the department has...
View ArticleWho’ll do what in departments
Infrastructure Minister David Cretney has announced who’ll do what in his department after the reshuffle.The reshuffle moved members to different departments but didn’t affect...
View ArticleBuster Lewin gives evidence
JAILED Buster Lewin this morning appeared before a Tynwald Select Committee.He was giving evidence in an inquiry into a planning controversy over a land deal in Kirk Michael against his former company,...
View ArticleTwo tonnes of rubbish collected
THE ‘BIG TT Tidy Up’ campaign around the island over the last week has resulted in almost two tonnes of rubbish being removed from numerous roads, footpaths and parks close to the TT course.Eight...
View ArticleConference raises young carers’ plight
A conference to raise awareness of young carers and the issues that affect their lives every day was held at the Villa Marina in Douglas.Crossroads Care, marking its 25th year in the island, staged the...
View ArticleCustomers came first
The award, for customer service, is a major accolade for Aidan Baglow who faced the greatest challenge of his career as Manx Gas conversion project manager for one of the biggest infrastructure...
View ArticleChairman of the board
AXA Wealth International has announced two appointments to the AXA Isle of Man Limited board of directors.Robert Quayle has been appointed chairman of AXA Isle of Man Limited, while Neil Duggan has...
View ArticleLiberal Vannin Party backs Isle of Man Chief Minister over lesbians
The Liberal Vannin party has weighed into the debate about the clergyman who refused to let a property to a couple because they were lesbians.A statement from the party reads: ‘Liberal Vannin welcomes...
View ArticleBell welcomes Cameron’s letter
THE Chief Minister this afternoon held a press conference in the wake of David Cameron’s letter to the Manx government and all of Britain’s other Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Allan Bell...
View ArticleHow the island is seen elsewhere in the world
The Isle of Man is famous for the TT races, tailless cats and chips, cheese and gravy.Well, that’s according to a website that’s produced some information about the island.We thought readers of...
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