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From Derek Bernard. IT is commonplace for States Members, journalists and members of the public, when being critical about the performance of our government and local organisations, to claim that we have much to learn from big organisations like the UK government, the EU, or the UN.

SOME Islanders, including a handful of politicians, are inclined to claim that Jersey is nothing less than a police state, in which the forces of law and order conspire with the establishment to further the ends of the richest, most powerful and most influential members of the community.

ONE of the benefits of living in our Island community is the ability to exercise our electoral choice on a personal rather than a party political basis.

JERSEY’S senior football games programme will be seriously hit next season following the early termination of the Wilde Family Office sponsorship.

A committee of inquiry into the secret police dossier on States Members has been called for by Deputy Mike Higgins.

MORE than 30 Island businesses will be taking part in a free jobs fair next month.

THE defendant in the historical abuse trial at the Royal Court has admitted sexually abusing a girl when she was 13 or 14 in the 1970s – and he told the police when interviewed that he knew one day they would question him over it.

From Simon Crowcroft, the Constable of St Helier. ACCORDING to your correspondent on 15 June, I have gone on record as saying that I would like to increase the rates.

FIVE records were smashed on Saturday when 69 vehicles took to the Five Mile Road for the JMCLCC’s LC Pallot and Sons/Sealey Tools Sprint.

ESTRELA Travel Holidays conceded just one goal on their way to winning the Channel Islands 5-a-side football championship for the first time at the weekend.