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IT is difficult to understand why anyone ever imagined that reducing the number of Senators from 12 to eight would be a good idea.

From Senator Freddie Cohen, Minister for Planning and Environment. FOR decades Portelet had been blighted by a massive ugly holiday camp. Prior to my appointment a planning approval had been granted for the development of flats and houses at Portelet. Therefore I never had the opportunity of returning Portelet to nature as would have been […]

JUST 19 young people turned up to a specially organised student hustings with the Senatorial candidates last week.

THE crassly misplaced new development above the bay at Portelet, rightly condemned by many Islanders as utterly out of keeping with its surroundings, has cast architectural development in something of a bad light recently.

ALTHOUGH the Minister for Planning and Environment, Senator Freddie Cohen, can be proud of successfully piloting a new Island Plan through the States with its central policies intact, the portfolio that has been his for more than five years has clearly been a burden as well as source of rewarding experiences.