It’s party time for the States Chamber

From John Heys. THE slow but inevitable ruination of this beautiful Island of Jersey by an incapable and dictatorial junta of senior States members must be exposed to the outside world, and stopped now as the mistakes are getting beyond recovery, with no accountability at all.


‘Islanders want competition’

ECONOMIC Development Minister Alan Maclean has dismissed a damning review of his report calling for a new supermarket as ‘naive’.


Victoria take the honours

GOOD all round team work helped Victoria College defeat Guernsey’s Elizabeth College by 39 runs in the annual inter-collegiate cricket match played at the College Field on Saturday.


Nine candidates nominated for Senator

NINE candidates will contest a single Senatorial seat at the by-election in three weeks.


Hotel fined for Easter licensing breaches

THE Royal Yacht Hotel has been fined £14,300 for breaching licensing and entertainment regulations at Easter last year.


Girls ‘offered to show their bodies on web’

JERSEY girls as young as 12 are using the internet to trade images of their body for cigarettes and alcohol.


Teachers ‘should not have to face pupils who attack them’

TEACHERS assaulted by pupils should not have to face their attackers again in class until the issue has been fully resolved.


Haute Vallée School prom

STUDENTS from Haute Vallée donned their dinner suits and dresses and waved goodbye to compulsory education on Friday night when they celebrated their end of school prom.


Dangerous climate of secrecy

WHEN the Island abandoned the committee system of government and adopted the present ministerial structure, a number of promises were made.


They’ve reached the less-than-startling conclusion that our politics is a bit rubbish

GET this: ministers are obsessed with secrecy and hoarding power, States sittings are a boring nightmare of repetition, stupid questions and pointless debates on the whims of individual Members, and five years of the ministerial system has created an atmosphere of antagonism and suspicion within the States Chamber.

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