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From Isabel Jeune. GERALD Voisin is to be applauded for standing up for shop workers regarding Sunday opening. The only big stores to open will be the greedy ones which currently force their staff to work late nights and Sundays in the run-up to Christmas. These stores have no regard for the welfare of their […]

WHEN he was in the Big House, some of his fellow Members used to call Gerald Voisin ‘young Mr Grace’, after the character in the sit-com about staff in a large department store – ‘Are You Being Served’, so I was told by one of that lot who was among our elected representatives at the time.

From Gerald Voisin. THE recent decision by the States to allow all shops over 700 square metres to open on a Sunday is the greatest attack on this Island’s way of life and culture that I have ever witnessed. The decision taken last week is completely contrary to the previously stated position to allow only […]

From Gerald Voisin I AM prompted to write following several comments reported in your newspaper through articles, letters from politicians and last night (14 September) quotations from the JDA. These comments appear to run the argument ‘it is acceptable for States expenditure to increase dramatically over the past ten years or so, after all it’s […]

Confusion abounds. Two weeks ago four Members of the Council of Ministers were describing plans to cut more than £4 million from the annual subsidies to fee-paying schools ‘a dead duck’ and ‘a bloody mess’.