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THE Bailiff has defended the references to the international media coverage of the Haut de la Garenne inquiry in Liberation Day speeches made by himself and Chief Minister Frank Walker.

RADICAL changes are needed in Jersey’s child penal system, says a UK review team which has just spent four days in the Island at the request of Senator Stuart Syvret in one of his last acts as Health Minister.

MORE than 200 angry Islanders squeezed into St Lawrence Parish Hall last night to reject a proposed retirement village on Millbrook Playing Fields.

THE bull semen debate may not be heard before the States’ summer break and could be deferred until September.

From Michael Green. WITH regard to the valid criticism expressed by Deputy Gerard Baudains in respect of the outrageous behaviour of both the Chief Minister and the Bailiff at the recent Liberation celebrations, I thoroughly support his view that the celebration was inappropriately used for political gain.

From Treasury Minister Terry Le Sueur. I DO not like writing letters to the JEP more often than is necessary, but I do have to take issue with the headline JEP, 30 April) where you state ‘GST will not be on receipts’.

From Gail Lees. I AM appalled to read that the Aquasplash pool on the Waterfront may have to close next year if the States cannot find £370,000.

MANY people feel strongly that the Bailiff’s Liberation Day speech and the similar one by Senator Walker to the States were totally inappropriate.

ON behalf of the Jersey Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, I would like to respond to your recent article featuring the Jersey Employers Network on Disability.