BACKBENCHERS launched a second attempt to change the Island’s population policy during the Strategic Plan debate in the States yesterday.
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January in pictures
The first in a new series of monthly news picture galleries.
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The burning question: Do we need this incinerator?
MINISTERS will face a barrage of hostile questions in the States tomorrow as concerns deepen over the cost, size and environmental impact of the proposed incinerator at La Collette. The charge will be led by new Deputies Daniel Wimberley and Mike Higgins. They have today released a picture which they argue shows the size of […]
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Incinerator group horrified by £4.4m consultancy costs
A STATES department has spent over £4.4 million paying consultants since the start of ministerial government, according to a group of politicians trying to stop the new incinerator being built. And the spokesman for the Stop the Incinerator Now Group, Deputy Trevor Pitman, said that the Transport and Technical Services Department might as well be […]
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In a kingdom of the blind there is one man who sees
From Ryan McMullen. WITH regard to the viewpoints expressed in the JEP on 24 February by the angry ‘anti-green’ lobby, I am not entirely convinced by the eloquence of one letter in particular that incineration is the best way. It may be entirely true that Daniel Wimberley, the man to whom I believe Peter Titterington […]
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Eleven Members back law-breaking Deputies
ELEVEN States Members have signed a letter in support of two St Helier No 2 Deputies who face sentencing for breaking the Public Elections Law. They say the law as it stands is unfair, and particularly restricts old and unwell voters from participating in free and fair elections. Deputies Geoff Southern and Shona Pitman are […]
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Eleven Members back law-breaking Deputies
ELEVEN States Members have signed a letter in support of two St Helier No 2 Deputies who face sentencing for breaking the Public Elections Law. They say the law as it stands is unfair, and particularly restricts old and unwell voters from participating in free and fair elections. Deputies Geoff Southern and Shona Pitman are […]
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Incinerator costs ‘fault of leaders’
RESPONSIBILITY for the incinerator euro rate fiasco that has cost the States millions of pounds ‘goes all the way to the top’, according to Deputy Daniel Wimberley.
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Ministers fight off new bid to change population policy
THE Council of Ministers fought off a second attempt to change Jersey’s immigration policy yesterday as they returned to the Chamber to thrash out the Island’s Strategic Plan.
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Open government is needed
From Gino Risoli. SENATOR Ozouf was in his prime last week. He has been a minister since ministerial government was formed, and a senior one at that. On television, on radio and in the newspaper, he has had the audacity to deny all responsibility for the financial arrangements of the incinerator contract that has cost […]
