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MOVING Highlands College to the site of the current General Hospital is being considered as part of a masterplan for St Helier, which will be presented to the Island’s new government. The prospect of moving the Highlands campus to a town centre location once the new hospital is built at Overdale is among the proposals […]

A DECISION to pursue a compulsory purchase of land for the hospital project should be ‘paused’ until the new government is fully-formed, a former Assistant Chief Minister has said. Deputy Philip Ozouf spoke out after the Parish of St Helier received a ‘series of compulsory purchase notices’ last Tuesday – during the ‘purdah’ period which […]

THE Jersey Alliance has no current plans to fold – despite losing its only elected member – its former leader has said. Sir Mark Boleat, who said his role as party leader ceased to exist after the election, admitted that the results had been ‘heard loud and clear’ but that discussions as to whether the […]

A NEW government-led scheme run in schools to deter children from crime – following the discontinuation of Prison! Me! No! Way! – could begin later this year, according to the Home Affairs Minister. Deputy Helen Miles said it was ‘essential to fill the gap’ left after funding for the charity’s schools programme was axed. Prison! […]

FURTHER damning criticism has been levelled at the government’s treatment of young people after it emerged that a child is being held at La Moye Prison. Children’s commissioner Deborah McMillan has written to ministers arguing that the move is in breach of human rights and against Jersey law. The decision was made earlier this month […]

A FOCUS on preventing young people carrying knives will feature in a new pilot scheme designed to deter children from crime, the Home Affairs Minister has said. Deputy Helen Miles said that regular classes could be delivered in schools from as early as January and that while knife crime was not a ‘major problem’ in […]

THE next States Assembly could be the most progressive yet on reforming cannabis laws, with a campaign group claiming that more than two-thirds of election candidates are likely to support relaxing legislation. Simon Harrison, co-ordinator for End Cannabis Prohibition Jersey, said it was ‘crucial’ that the Island’s next government took a forward-thinking approach, adding that […]

DECRIMINALISING cannabis could be considered as part of a wider substance-abuse strategy, according to the Home Affairs Minister. Deputy Helen Miles said she was not ‘automatically in favour’ of the decriminalisation of the drug, but said that the Island needed ‘some sort of strategy’. She added: ‘It is something we have to look at. We […]

A REQUEST to pause the ‘controversial’ compulsory purchase of land for the hospital project has been made by the Constable of St Helier. Simon Crowcroft has written to outgoing Chief Minister John Le Fondré after the parish received a series of compulsory-purchase notices last Tuesday – during the ‘purdah’ period which is designed to halt […]

A BAN will be placed on removing any marine life from Portelet Bay to enable a scientific research zone to be established in the area, following a States decision. Members backed Environment Minister John Young’s proposals to introduce a no-take zone – which it is hoped will help protect the Island’s fish stocks, by 45 […]