In this week’s Isle of Man Examiner, we lead on the latest situation with coronavirus.

Criticism of the government’s policy has grown and is coming from different directions.

We sum up what it is and report the latest changes in the Channel Islands, with which we are often compared.

Also this week:

The new boss of the Isle of Man Steam Packet speaks to us about his plans.

He also has an unusual alter ego, a musician who creates electronic music.

Police officer Paul John Robinson has denied an offence of dangerous driving while he was on duty. He now faces a trial.

Government minister Tim Baker was ordered to withdraw comments that appeared to question the honesty of backbencher Chris Robertshaw during angry scenes in Tynwald. David Christopher Rowson, a 32-year-old man who breached Covid-19 isolation requirements after arriving in the island, has been sentenced.

Costs for the Douglas Promenade scheme continue mounting, the Infrastructure Minister admits.

Concerns have been raised surrounding the state of the bathing water at Peel beach after ’a line of sewage effluent [was visible] on the beach’.

Representatives of two international agreements are contacting relevant authorities in the UK about the activities of the Isle of Man Government, regarding issues around man-made organic chemicals in the island’s waters.

Some of the island’s local authorities went to the polls last Thursday. See the results of the areas that voted inside.

More than 100 people attended the official opening of the first three sections of Ramsey’s historic Queen’s Pier.

Port Erin Festival pictures.

The post box inside the airport has been removed. We talk to a reader who’s not happy about that.

And we learn about the fate of the island’s phone boxes in a special feature.

Our Food and Farming pages look forward to the Southern Show.

David Cretney talks about manners in his column.

We go back to this year in 1958 to see what Examiner readers read on page one of the paper.

IOMA celebrates 50 years in our Working Week section.

There are 10 pages of sport this week and leads with the golf championship.

But there’s lots more as well.

There is also our letters page, the crossword, a television guide and community news.

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