SENDING to Delhi a Commonwealth Games squad of 55, which includes 22 officials, may have rankled with some – but not our JEP columnist Chris Lake.
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‘Lessons have been learnt’
THE Health Minister yesterday refused to say whether anyone would face disciplinary action over failures to stop a boy suffering abuse and neglect for more than a decade.
‘Doormen need stab vests’
DOORMEN in Jersey are asking for stab vests and metal detectors for their own protection.
Spending cuts must not be rushed, urges minister
MINISTERS should vet each other’s proposals ahead of the next round of spending cuts, the Home Affairs Minister says.
Isn’t it amazing how quickly things can happen when people put their minds to it?
LIKE flares, cowboy films and Fender guitars, there are two stories that are not going out of style any time soon.
It’s time to take back the streets
IT is sometimes pointed out that the streets of St Helier are safer than those in some parts of the UK. That may be so, but it is a complacent view which, as far as the public-order problems and violence now routinely witnessed in Jersey’s capital are concerned, misses a point which the Island authorities must now set about making more forcefully and effectively.
I would much prefer to deal with a police officer with a few years’ service than with one who has just come out of the classroom
AS The Reader may have realised after all these years, there are times when I get so thoroughly exasperated with that lot in the Big House that I wish we had a railway so that I could stand under a bridge and scream to my heart’s content whenever a train went over it.
The Constable seemed to believe that with development come investment and regeneration, and a more vibrant capital
IT’S a strange thing that people look to the natural world for evidence of the changing of the seasons.
Home Affairs pull out of move for a knife crime law
KNIFE crime proposals have been cut from Home Affairs’ plans for this year.
In these times of paying more for fewer services, isn’t it time we looked at the cost of justice?
IN the Shed, there’s only one person who sets the rules, and if any of my old pals pop in to share some apple juice and join me in setting the world to rights, they know who’s king of that particular castle.

