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WELL, that’s it – almost. Fly has waxed and waned, zigged and zagged, flipped and flopped and has come, finally, to a conclusion: elections are good.

A VISIT to India by States officials and finance industry leaders is likely to be postponed in the wake of yesterday’s terrorist attacks.

From Robert Kisch. SIMON Bellwood, in the Jersey Evening Post’s Saturday Interview on 22 November, appears to base his objections to the Grand Prix system as the fact that it started off those sent to Greenfields with a 24-hour period of solitary confinement. He has stated that this is illegal.

THE worst kind of joke is the one that backfires on the teller, as Guernsey’s Deputy Chief Minister discovered last week.

THE Jersey Democratic Alliance scored the biggest success for party politics in 60 years as voters also put their faith in youth and newcomers in yesterday’s elections for Deputies.

JERSEY will again welcome the Queen’s Baton when it travels  through member nations ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

YESTERDAY’S election for Deputies produced results which are highly significant on a number of counts.

The Chamber of Commerce is normally associated with sober-suited businessmen, but its origins were maritime – in the period of the Newfoundland fishing industry and privateering.

A JERSEY management support business is proving its worth in the Caribbean.

From Stephen Platt. IN Jersey, people often bemoan the calibre of their elected representatives. They can, however, count themselves lucky that the deputy Chief Minister of Guernsey is not among their political elite.