Carrickfergus Alliance Councillor, Stewart Dickson, has attacked the DRD Roads Service for the road traffic chaos that ensued on the A2 Belfast Road during the Monday evening rush hour. This road is currently being resurfaced. On Monday evening, a lane was closed from Trooperslane to the Carrickgerus Castle which caused a 3-hour snarl up for […]
East Belfast Alliance MLA and Party Education Spokesperson, Naomi Long, along with her Castlereagh Party colleagues Cllr. Sara Duncan and Cllr. Michael Long, have called for the SEELB to review their decision to remove transport assistance from Lagan College pupils from the Braniel, Cregagh and Lisnasharragh areas. The areas are less than 3 miles from […]
East Belfast Alliance MLA, Cllr Naomi Long MLA (Alliance Regional Development Spokesperson) and Castlereagh Councillor Michael Long, have called on Government to rethink their public transport strategy and increase subsidies for services which are less profitable, but which provide vital links to public services. They made the call after local people attended a packed public […]
Responding to the news that the Treasury has vetoed proposals by the NI Secretary of State to significantly increase rates to cushion the blow of water charges, Alliance Party Finance Spokesman Seamus Close MLA stated: “Many people suspected that the public consultation over water reform was fraudulent. Now we know it is. “There are dirty […]
The Alliance Party’s Regional Development Spokesperson, Cllr Naomi Long MLA, and Castlereagh Councillor Sara Duncan, have welcomed a commitment by Roads Service to review traffic counts undertaken in Beechgrove Avenue, which led to the removal of winter salting services last year, and to review their decision. Naomi Long said: “Last winter a series of roads […]
Alliance Party Deputy Leader and Victims Spokesperson Eileen Bell MLA has warned the British and Irish Governments not to proceed with a flawed deal on paramilitary fugitives (‘On The Runs’) in exchange for Republican acts of completion. Mrs Bell said that the issue could only be meaningfully resolved if people also forced from their homes […]
ALLIANCE Councillor Lynn Frazer (Newtownabbey) has said the University of Ulster should not have dived into a decision to close its Jordanstown campus swimming pool without proper consultation. Cllr Frazer was speaking after she met with Students’ Union representatives today at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown (UUJ) who are protesting at the pool’s planned closure. […]
ALLIANCE representatives Councillor Naomi Long MLA and Cllr Michael Long are calling for Belfast public transport users to express their concerns at the level of bus provision in the Rosetta area by attending a meeting organised by Translink on Thursday. The meeting – at Knockbreda Methodist Church Hall, Rosetta Road, Thursday, 19 August, 7pm – […]
East Belfast Alliance MLA, Cllr Naomi Long, has welcomed the fact that new legislation on keeping dangerous animals has now come into force in Northern Ireland. The Alliance Councillor had written to the Government calling for the urgent extension of the Wild Animals Act to Northern Ireland last year after concerns about big cats roaming […]
Alliance Party Justice Spokesperson, Stephen Farry, has emphasised that a firm commitment to end to all paramilitary activity must be the primary confidence-building measure required from both Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries in the coming Talks Process. Dr Farry stated: “Once again, the political debate is focusing on the issue of IRA decommissioning. While decommissioning is […]