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A GOVERNMENT subsidy scheme to incentivise the purchase of electric vehicles is under development and will play a key role in delivering on the Island’s carbon-neutral commitments, the Environment Minister has said. Deputy Jonathan Renouf admitted that the take-up of eco-friendly vehicles fell well below that of countries where subsidies had been offered to those […]

CHIEF Minister Kristina Moore has admitted that some new political job titles – where assistant ministers are referred to as ministers – can be confusing and that she will be discussing the matter with the Privileges and Procedures Committee. Earlier this week in a government press release it was announced that Assistant Environment Minister Hilary […]

THE Chief Minister has confirmed which politicians will join her government as assistant ministers. Deputy Kristina Moore has chosen ten States Members who will take up assistant ministerial positions. The Chief Minister will be assisted by two assistant chief ministers: Constable Andy Jehan and Deputy Alex Curtis. Mr Jehan is one of four assistant ministers […]

THE Housing Minister has ‘defined’ homelessness in a bid to make the ‘invisible visible’. Deputy David Warr has broken homelessness down into four core areas: rooflessness, houselessness, living in insecure housing and living in inadequate housing. He said: ‘Jersey is not exempt from the challenges of homelessness, which, as this definition shows, can take on […]

MANY Islanders say they are ‘struggling to afford to live’ in Jersey as the cost of living bites, the first public-health consultation of its kind has revealed. The survey identified the crisis as having the greatest negative effect on the health and wellbeing of Islanders, who called on the government to do more to help […]

ALMOST a third of households evacuated during major flooding in Grands Vaux last month have not returned to their properties – with some residents describing parts of the area as a ‘ghost town’. Residents are still in the process of clearing the wreckage from their flooded homes, several weeks after torrential rainfall overwhelmed drains across […]

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 […]

THE government has provided updates on three recent major incidents: the sinking of the L’Ecume trawler, the Haut du Mont explosion and the Grands Vaux floods. L’Ecume II Commodore Goodwill Picture: ROB CURRIE. (35264395) On Thursday 8 December, the L’Ecume II fishing trawler sank following a collision with Condor’s Commodore Goodwill freight ship off Jersey’s […]