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Hustings questions: Government cutbacks

THE 21 Senatorial candidates began their campaigning in earnest at St Clement’s Parish Hall last night. Just over 150 people crowded into the building for the first of the parish hustings meetings. St Clement Constable Derek Gray squeezed in six questions into the two-hour meeting by asking candidates to answer three questions at a time […]

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Flybe Island Heroes: Sport shortlist

Today we reveal the first three to be shortlisted for the Flybe Island Heroes award, run in association with the Jersey Evening Post. The five judges who chose the shortlist were Advocate Chris Renouf, Ian Taylor, Matt Le Tissier, David Edwards and Derek de la Haye. The other finalists will be featured tomorrow and Friday […]

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Setting the scene for autumn elections

THIS year’s elections will be the first since GST began, the first in which 16-year-olds can vote, and the first in which nearly every seat in the States could change hands. They will also be the first since the start of ministerial government – and will be the first real chance to gauge how the […]

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Privileges play no part in fixing nomination dates

From Derek Gray, chairman, Privileges and Procedures Committee. I WRITE in response to Senator Le Main’s letter (JEP, 18 November) regarding the absence of two Deputies from their nomination meetings earlier this month. In his letter, Senator Le Main states that Deputies Huet and de Faye were unable to attend their nomination meetings because, ‘Privileges […]

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Hustings question: GST

THE 21 Senatorial candidates began their campaigning in earnest at St Clement’s Parish Hall last night. Just over 150 people crowded into the building for the first of the parish hustings meetings. St Clement Constable Derek Gray squeezed in six questions into the two-hour meeting by asking candidates to answer three questions at a time […]

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Hustings question: Missing States Members

THE 21 Senatorial candidates began their campaigning in earnest at St Clement’s Parish Hall last night. Just over 150 people crowded into the building for the first of the parish hustings meetings. St Clement Constable Derek Gray squeezed in six questions into the two-hour meeting by asking candidates to answer three questions at a time […]

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First election hustings meeting

JUST over 150 people attended the first Senatorial hustings meeting in St Clement last night. The record number of candidates — 21 — forced parish staff to line them up along the sides of the room. And St Clement Constable Derek Gray managed to squeeze six questions into the two-hour meeting by inviting the candidates […]

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