A BUSINESSWOMAN has announced that she is standing for election as a Jersey Alliance candidate.
Jo Luce, who runs Aqua Trust Company, will compete for one of the four Deputy seats in St Helier South, where her business is based.
She was born in the UK but lived in Ireland between 1971 and 1988, when she moved to Jersey and worked as a waitress and chambermaid before entering the finance industry.
In 2012, Mrs Luce, who lives in St Ouen, launched her own trust company, which she says donates money to charities including Jersey Hospice, Durrell and the Women’s Refuge.
She said: ‘I’m not a career politician. I have been a mother, a daughter, a businesswoman and my husband would say I am a pain in the neck. But I’ve always been loyal. I have always worked hard and delivered.
‘I would like to do this for this Island. Like many of us – people who have arrived on this island – I would like to show we really do have a place and a role to play and really want to make Jersey a better place.
‘I will work hard to remove red tape from government so that people who are young now can see a way to getting their voices properly heard. I want our education to be the best we can possibly get it.’
Mrs Luce added: ‘I want healthcare to be brilliant and value driven. I want business to be free to do what it needs to do and I want us to raise strong revenue so that we can resource the Island properly. I think that is very achievable if we open up government and get the right people in the right places. For me, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the machinery of government, to keep what has worked well but to make the process more fit for purpose.’
Party leader Sir Mark Boleat said that Mrs Luce had ‘built a highly successful business’ and was ‘well-qualified to make an excellent contribution as a States Assembly Member’.
