Mike Sanford

We hear you, Southland building industry We’ve been hearing a lot of frustration in the building community in the past week as work resumed under Alert Level 3. There’s been an expectation that our building team would have been able to deal with your consent applications as fast as they came in. We’

The Ministry of Health has announced no new COVID-19 cases in the Southern district today, for the twentieth consecutive day. The region’s total remains 216, with seven active cases, 207 now recovered and two deceased. Great news bring on level 2 and beyond announcement on Monday. Let’s do this!   M

The All of Government Covid-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today. Today’s speakers will be Minister of Finance, Hon Grant Robertson and Director of Public Health, Dr Caroline McElnay. Watch the live stream from 1pm. https://youtu.be/vnTIg6G75KM

National is pushing for struggling businesses to be offered GST cash refunds of up to $100,000 as part of its alternative plan to salve the economic damage caused by Covid-19. The proposal stands in contrast to the government’s scheme for small businesses unveiled last week which offers 12-month int

The global tech giant announced today that it would establish its first datacentre region in New Zealand. In a statement, Microsoft said the New Zealand datacenter region will be the latest addition to its global datacenter footprint. It has 60 datacentre regions worldwide with its Microsoft Azure c

Today the Government revealed details on how living in level 2 will look like. Below are all the details on what or what’s not allowed in level 2 Moving to Alert Level 2 We’ve united against Covid-19 and by continuing to work together we can earn the opportunity to move to Alert Level 2. When […]

The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today. Speakers: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield Live Updates: Dr Ashley Bloomfield has announced one new confirmed case. He says the person – who tested positive – was a

Our thoughts naturally are with those who are losing their jobs and businesses as a result of this crisis. But we also need to acknowledge that not everything or everybody will come out of this worse off. So, in the email containing my Tony’s View of last Thursday, I invited people to give me their