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Daily Archives: February 9, 2010

Voteline: Haiti concert

This week’s question relates to last Sunday’s fund-raising concert for Haiti headlined by Jersey singing and songwriting star Nerina Pallot.

‘Doormen need stab vests’

Roy Travert: Doormen should have the same protection as police

DOORMEN in Jersey are asking for stab vests and metal detectors for their own protection.

We are all in this together

THE international lobby which denies the reality of climate change has seen its case bolstered recently by unfounded claims about the melt-rate of the Himalayan glaciers and alleged manipulation of data by proponents of the global warming theory.

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Liberation? Think of the USA!

From Melanie Luce.
MAY I throw a thought into the Liberation Day debate?

Climate warming, cooling – or simply climate change?

From Robert Kisch.
I HAVE doubts about the whole climate change scenario. We have had global warming, global cooling and, as a safe term, climate change presented as government scare tactics.

They were outmuppeted by an ensemble performance of self-aggrandising flannel

LAST week’s States sitting was like some awful, twisted version of The X Factor – 53 politicians all striving to make the biggest possible hash of the fairly straightforward tasks in front of them.

Obituary: Ralph Elliott

A PROMINENT Jersey artist has passed away after a long battle with cancer aged just 47. Ralph Elliott, of St Helier, died on 15 December.

Cynics might allege a secret agenda – why else build 15 years ahead of capacity?

THE idea had been simmering for some time, so we probably should have seen it coming.  But last weekend, ironically in the same edition of the JEP which contained a reader’s letter expressing surprise at the unexpected enormity of the energy-from-waste plant rising at La Collette, up bubbles the suggestion that Guernsey should keep its [...]

New Spike partnership

INDEPENDENT video production company Spike has merged with a marketing agency that has operated in the Channel Islands for 20 years.

Athlete suspended over drugs test

JERSEY shot putter Jamie Stevenson has been provisionally suspended from competition after allegedly refusing to take a drugs test.