WELL, that’s it – almost. Fly has waxed and waned, zigged and zagged, flipped and flopped and has come, finally, to a conclusion: elections are good. What else would prompt 81 of the strangest people in Jersey to put up posters of their faces and strings of random nouns and adjectives all over the Island? […]
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Now it’s official: Breckon will run
SENATOR-elect Alan Breckon is running for Chief Minister. A week from today, he will go head-to-head with Treasury Minister Terry Le Sueur to try to win the backing of the States to become Jersey’s second Chief Minister. Deputy Breckon, who came second in the Senatorial election in October, says that the differences between him and […]
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Deposit scheme dominates hustings
THE world finance crisis dominated the hustings as the Senatorial election campaign reached its halfway point in St Peter last night. Many candidates used their three-minute opening speech to talk about the problems and the need for a deposit banking scheme in Jersey. Parishioners wanted to know if the candidates thought that there was a […]
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Record number for Senatorial election
A RECORD number of candidates have declared for the Senatorial election to be held next month. There were two surprise candidates at last night’s nomination meeting at the Town Hall – St Saviour Deputy Alan Breckon and Air Display organiser Mike Higgins – bringing the total number to 21. They are sitting States Members Senators […]
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Ignore the voters and you pay the price
From Ann House. I AM delighted at the results in the elections Islandwide. And I hope that Deputies Huet and de Faye will now realise that it does not pay to ignore the electorate. I refer to their not turning up for the nomination meetings. It only goes to show that you should never take […]
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Prices up 7% since start of GST
JERSEY’s consumer watch-dog has found that prices have risen by seven per cent since the introduction of GST in May. The Island’s Consumer Council carried out a price check in the Island’s main supermarkets in April and again in May to compare prices before and after the three per cent Goods and Services Tax was […]
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Terry Le Sueur is Chief Minister
Senator Terry Le Sueur is the Island’s new Chief Minister. He was elected by States Members in a secret ballot today, winning 36 votes compared to 17 gained by newly-elected Senator Alan Breckon. They were the only two candidates to have come forward to replace Frank Walker as the head of the Council of Ministers. […]
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Hustings: St Saviour No 1
FIVE candidates answered questions on everything from traffic to hopes for the future of the young at last night’s St Saviour hustings.
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It was statistical nonsense
From Jim Hopley, chief executive of the Co-op. IT is not often that I feel inclined to write to the media but I simply cannot allow the lead article in the JEP on Monday 7 July 2008 to go unchallenged. To draw the conclusions your newspaper did from such a limited piece of work done […]
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Hustings: St Saviour No 1
FIVE candidates answered questions on everything from traffic to hopes for the future of the young at last night’s St Saviour hustings.
