MINISTERS wield too much unchecked power and Scrutiny panels are failing to provide constructive opposition, the Treasury Minister said as he threw his weight behind plans to radically overhaul the Island’s governmental system.
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Comeback for health deal?
JERSEY has moved a step closer to reinstating its reciprocal health agreement with the UK, after the Isle of Man successfully negotiated to retain its deal.
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UK agrees to health deal talks
THE UK has agreed to talks on restoring the reciprocal health agreement.
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Countdown to an election that must raise standards
A YEAR from today, Jersey will go to the polls in the first same-day States elections.
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Elderly care proposals rejected
PLANS for an £84m package to cover elderly care, secure pension provision and top-up health funding have been rejected by the States.
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Time for action on prices
KARL Marx, a figure who visited Jersey but whose ideas do not cut much ice here nowadays, wrote that philosophers interpret the world, but the real point is to change it.
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Last week’s departure of the Housing Minister was the very model of a modern resignation
THE political resignation has, with regret, moved on. In the old days it was a lot more upfront: you got caught doing something naughty, you held your hand up and you went, never to be heard of again. The modern resignation is different.
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States reformer Clothier dies
SIR Cecil Clothier, who was one of the chief architects of ministerial government in Jersey, has died at the age of 90.
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Ministerial-committee hybrid system will work, says Ozouf
CHANGES must be made to Jersey’s system of government despite the defeat of reform proposals this week, says Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf.
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Le Sueur backs Hilton for Housing
WITH a scathing report on the sell-off of States properties apparently looming, a new Housing Minister will be elected tomorrow.
