CARBON monoxide detectors could be made compulsory for every new building in Jersey, says Environment Minister Freddie Cohen.
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Whoever you are, politicians and secret recordings just do not work well together
HUMANITY learned many lessons from the 1970s, mostly about haircuts and trousers, but also one genuinely fundamental truth about politics that spans decades, ideology and oceans – that whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever your intentions, politicians and secret recordings just do not work well together.
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Senator broke rules
SENATOR Ben Shenton broke States rules by secretly recording Environment Minister Freddie Cohen admitting that his department had made ‘an absolute cock-up’ of the Reg’s Skips case, according to the States’ disciplinary committee.
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A check on the powers of ministers
JERSEY has not had to suffer dictatorship since the end of the Second World War.
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Doubts over urgency of 2008 rezoning
TWO years after the States rezoned 58 vergées of land for homes for the over-55s, Planning Minister Freddie Cohen has questioned whether the need was as urgent as believed.
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Selling Planning’s offices will deliver more homes
From Senator Freddie Cohen. MICHAEL Green (JEP, 29 Jun) has misunderstood my suggestion on the redevelopment of the Planning and TTS offices at South Hill. I fully support using the value of the site to deliver affordable or social housing for Islanders. There are two alternatives: either we build affordable homes on the South Hill […]
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Shortage of staff ‘is hindering Planning’
THERE are not enough planning officers to keep developers in check, Environment Minister Freddie Cohen has said.
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Call for review of minister’s powers
CONCERNS over the extent of the Planning and Environment Minister’s powers and whether they should be reduced have resurfaced.
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Pity no one told him how the system works before letting him out on his own
SO, thanks to the efforts of the bloke known to many of his constituents as Roy the Boy, poor old Freddie from Planning has been left in what he says is a very difficult position.
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Waterfront finance centre project back on
THE multi-million pound plan to develop a new financial centre on the Waterfront could be back on.
