COMPTROLLER and Auditor-general Chris Swinson’s report into the Lime Grove fiasco attempts to explain why the States failed to acquire the property as a new headquarters building for the States police. It can, however, be argued that serious issues of more general relevance have emerged with the publication of Mr Swinson’s findings.

IT is not every day that members of the Jersey Farmers’ Union have the chance of chatting with film star and national treasure Joan Collins about the merits of one of their outstanding show displays.

AS we approach the Diamond Jubilee of our Queen, Elizabeth II, we can look back on a 60-year reign marked not only by exemplary service rendered by a much-loved monarch but also by great social change.

OVER the past decade Jersey’s tax regime has changed dramatically, thanks largely to reforms spurred by what amounts to outside interference, principally from the European Union. Political action on the fiscal front was clearly necessary to prevent who knows what damage, but the consequences for many members of the community have been lamentable. They have [...]

AS Walking Week and the Food Festival give way on Jersey’s summer stage to this weekend’s International Festival of Motoring, we are reminded once again of the growing success and importance of event-led tourism.

HOUSING Minister Andrew Green appears to be determined to do as much as he can to ease the situation of young people struggling to put a first foot on the Island’s less than easily accessible property ladder.

AS he would no doubt acknowledge, former States Member Don Filleul is not a poor man. However, even if he is not down to his last shilling, he does not enjoy the fabulous levels of wealth that some of the Island’s residents can lay claim to.

AS matters stand, the old pool at West Park – otherwise known as the Marine Lake – is among the Island’s less impressive relics of the Victorian era. In its day, however, it was seen as a structure fit to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

IT used to be said that the States often had to make policy in the dark because of a lack of reliable data on which to base decisions. The same cannot be said today because of the wide range of inquiry undertaken by the States Statistics Unit, which reports on matters as diverse as trends [...]

ALTHOUGH policing in 21st-century Jersey has much in common with the maintenance of law and order in the UK, there are obvious differences between the structures of the forces in the two jurisdictions.

QUITE rightly, there was a celebratory mood in Liberation Square on Wednesday when Islanders of all ages gathered to mark the 67th anniversary of the end of the German Occupation. The accent was on giving thanks for the original day of Liberation on 9 May 1945 and for the freedoms which, as a result, we [...]

NOW that the States have approved the Strategic Plan, the path is clear for Chief Minister Ian Gorst and his ministerial colleagues to concentrate on the issues that they have identified as the Island’s most pressing problems.