Lucy Mason

So, how are the new States Members settling in?

AS maiden speeches go it was a memorable one. Not because of the substance of what St Saviour Constable Sadie Rennard said when she took to her feet in the States on Wednesday morning – I don’t remember most of that.

It’s time Education came up with some answers

SO, Jersey could get a new primary school. That sounds fun – I wonder where it would be, what it would be called, what the uniform would look like.

The Scrutiny system needs a bite to add to its bark

INEFFECTIVE, without teeth and a waste of time are just some of the criticisms that have been levelled at Jersey’s Scrutiny system in recent years.

Don’t make immigration the cause of so many problems

IT is often said that there is no point trying to tackle a problem in isolation and the issue of Jersey’s spiralling unemployment is a case in point.

The last thing politicians need now is distraction

A LOT has been said in this paper over the past few months about the Council of Ministers’ Strategic Plan for the next three years.

Our inward-looking Island has become a more accepting place place

WHETHER it is drumming up business in the Middle East, signing a tax exchange agreement with Japan or our ‘great’ friendship with the UK, we often hear our politicians talking about Jersey’s relationship with other jurisdictions.

Drinking to excess: Let’s start at the very beginning …

MY head is pounding, my stomach is churning and no matter how much water I drink, my mouth is still dry.

Having the right attitude will help in a hunt for jobs

JERSEY Chamber of Commerce president David Warr and I haven’t always seen eye to eye, particularly when it comes to the prices charged by some local retailers and my views on internet shopping.

Put the trumpets down and answer the question

THERE was a great moment in the States last week when a young woman – one of 50-something teenagers who had taken over the Chamber for the annual Youth Assembly – took on the Chief Minister and won.

Silence in the House when questions were required

STATES question time is a funny old beast. Sometimes (far too often, for those of us watching on the side-lines, actually) the same old questions come up over and over again.

Let’s now finish the pay-off jigsaw and move on, please

A TOTAL of 910,562 Snickers bars, three Lamborghini Gallardos or a nice three-bedroom home in St John – the £546,337.50p pay-off to former States chief executive Bill Ogley would go pretty far. A TOTAL of 910,562 Snickers bars, three Lamborghini Gallardos or a nice three-bedroom home in St John – the £546,337.50p pay-off to former [...]

User-pays, GST and income tax are among the options

REDUCING unemployment, addressing immigration, reforming the health service and housing our community all sound great.