OBJECTIONS from three heritage bodies about the partial demolition of a 200-year-old listed building were withdrawn before a Planning meeting last week.
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When all 53 States Members walk or cycle to work, so will I
From Roy Travert. THE subject of environmental taxes has already been voted on by the States and thrown out on a standing vote. Members voted by 25-18 to back a proposal by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen in 2008 to throw this proposition out. He stated that this was not the right time for new taxes. […]
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Tourism U-turn?
JERSEY Tourism’s visitor centre could be moving back to Liberation Square. It might be part of a multi-million pound redevelopment of the former abattoir site. Environment Minister Freddie Cohen approved the designs last week for the area bordering Liberation Square and the harbour side of the Esplanade. The plans include turning the old Tourism building […]
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Fate of the CI Jews and this service are two separate issues
From Senator Freddie Cohen. MR Vautier’s letter conflated a number of very separate issues and I feel that these need to be clarified. The Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in Jersey focuses on remembering the 22 Jersey men and women who were deported to German camps where they perished through mistreatment or murder. Of those, 21 […]
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Minister acts on carbon footprint row
ENVIRONMENT Minister Freddie Cohen has stepped in to try to resolve a row between Jersey Gas and his officials about electricity.
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Incinerator doesn’t fit in with ‘wise use’
From Lara Luke. I HAVE a few questions that I would like ‘the rebel backbench incinerator gang’ to ask Environment Minister Freddie Cohen. Firstly, how does the incinerator fit in with the concept of wise use, as stated in the Ramsar convention; can they promise that there will be no change in the ecology of […]
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States pay out another £700,000 compensation
THE States have paid an out-of-court settlement of almost £700,000 over a Planning blunder involving plans for a much publicised Trinity infill scheme.
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States in shambles
THE States resembled a school playground yesterday as foul language and personal insults flew across the Chamber. After days of personal animosities being vented in e-mails between States Members, the tensions erupted publicly in a bitter question time. Senator Stuart Syvret stopped proceedings in mid-flow to complain to the Deputy Bailiff, Michael Birt, that the […]
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By-laws a ‘death knell’ for gas
THE managing director of Jersey Gas has branded a call by the Environment Minister for an independent study into the carbon footprint of imported electricity a ‘smokescreen’.
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Unsightly legacies
From Sandra Wakeham. WITH another eyesore approved, this time at Havre des Pas (JEP, 19 November), one can’t help but wonder if, long after he’s gone, Senator Freddie Cohen will still be remembered forever by future generations as ‘Blot on the Landscape’.
