February 15, 2010
Plans to redevelop the Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery (HBMAG) are on track, with work to begin at the end of this June. The project is one of the largest in the central city for some years, says museum director Douglas Lloyd Jenkins. As proposed and approved, the $18 million project will renovate, expand [...]
February 15, 2010
Thankfully the 2009 economic roller coaster is behind us. 2010 is still going to be challenging, although with the credit crunch is well behind us and business confidence levels rising, we have a more stable – if not positive – outlook. Sadly in Hawke’s Bay, we are still suffering some residual outcomes of 2009 both [...]
February 15, 2010
Elsewhere in this Digest you’ll find a range of wise prognostications about promises to be kept, challenges to be met, trends to watch in 2010. I tend to focus on the Councils, so here’s my sense of where the political excitement will be found in the year ahead. I actually believe that political careers might [...]
February 15, 2010
The Hawke’s Bay Opera House has a new management structure … and an ambitious strategy for the future. Roger Coleman, General Manager of the facility, takes us behind the curtain in this exchange. How would you describe the mission of the Opera House? What is its “promise” to the general public? The mission statement in [...]
February 15, 2010
To put this year’s agenda in context we need to first reflect on 2009. It was a year of challenges, role definition and several momentous decisions that will impact the region for years to come. The challenges included survival. As 2009 began, with the new National-led Government keen to effect change, the prospect was that [...]
February 15, 2010
Not a pleasant topic. But an inevitable one. And one of special policy importance in Hawke’s Bay, where people over age 65 represent the fastest growing segment of our population. For those afflicted with terminal illnesses like cancer, which often bring unrelenting pain, the final path to death can be especially dire. Special care – [...]
February 15, 2010
Happy New Year to all BayBuzz readers! I have just enjoyed my first Christmas in New Zealand, and whilst it was very different to one in the UK, it was very pleasurable. Now, with three months as chief executive of Hawke’s Bay District Health Board under my belt, I have had a chance to look [...]
- Andrew Reyngoud on DAM(N)! A half-billion dollar water storage scheme
- Margaret Donnelly on WATER. What's all the fuss about?
- Elizabeth Sisson on 'Dump Council' campaign
- Paul Bailey on Cows in Karamu Stream
- Rob Pharazyn on Cows in Karamu Stream
- John J Harrison on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Anne Parker on Let's get Council meetings online
- Stuart Nash on 5 mayors in HB ... 'Yeah right' says Tui
- Kylie Fowler on Let's get Council meetings online
- Paul Bailey on Let's get Council meetings online
- ‘Dump Council’ campaign
- Cows in Karamu Stream
- Questions for HB ‘regional study’ director
- Let’s get Council meetings online
- 5 mayors in HB … ‘Yeah right’ says Tui
- Crucial Environment Court hearing underway
- Regional Council warns on pollution standards
- Democracy in action?
- 1+1+1 = 3 hours
- Councils’ reorganization survey results
