MINISTERS are sitting on a “goldmine of opportunity” for children’s play in the centre of town, St Helier’s Constable has said as he unveiled ambitious proposals for a large indoor skate park. Simon Crowcroft is once again bidding to transform Millennium Town Park and the former showroom and warehouse of Jersey Gas, which sit adjacent […]
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£130K cost of Liberation Day being questioned
QUESTIONS about procurement are being asked after a JEP freedom-of-information request revealed that this year’s Liberation Day celebrations cost the taxpayer over £130,000. The figure included £68,704 for the rental of two seven-metre screens from a non-Jersey provider, £18,977.40 on marquees and chairs, and £5,602.50 on bunting. A local provider this week quoted the JEP […]
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We’ve missed a huge opportunity to develop a cohesive approach to early-years childcare in Jersey
By Belinda Lewis THE Jersey Early Years Association (JEYA) is the industry representative body for the private/not-for-profit providers of childcare in the Island who work tirelessly for the benefit of young children and their families. It began working years ago to lobby (successfully) for the Nursery Education Fund (NEF), which now allows 30 hours of […]
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‘One hell of a fight’ – Housing Minister and fellow Members get ready for rent debate
AREAS of consensus may sometimes be in short supply in the States Assembly, but most, if not all, politicians who took their oaths of office in July 2022 following the Island’s most recent election agreed that changes needed to be made to the Residential Tenancy Law. Initially, responsibility for this matter sat with Deputy David […]
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'Has Jersey lost its political mojo? In recent years, the government has taken a ‘can’t do’ approach'
By Ted Vibert OVER the last five years, there has been a growing picture of Jersey becoming an island where the policy of many government agencies and the government itself has become one of “no, you can’t do that” rather than one of “yes, that’s a great scheme, let’s go with it”. This attitude has […]
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As the Christmas lights went on in St Helier, they went out on Blue Islands… The story of the hours before and after the airline’s shutdown
BLUE ISLANDS INSIGHT IN the end, weeks of deliberation and negotiation led to a hastily arranged meeting of the Council of Ministers on Friday afternoon, when Jersey’s cabinet agreed that enough was enough, and taxpayers were not going to agree to a request from Blue Islands for another bailout. A smaller group of four or […]
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'We are not supposed to be celebrating that we proportionately have more civil servants than Portugal or the United States'
By Richard Digard PARDON me if this come across as in any way mean-spirited, but one of the most complacent things I’ve heard a politician utter was your Inna Gardiner finding it “reassuring” that Jersey employs a similar proportion of public sector staff as other jurisdictions. Bad enough coming from a Deputy who supposedly cares […]
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Could Jersey be next to decriminalise cannabis?
JERSEY’S Health Minister has signalled his support for decriminalising cannabis. As countries across the world continue to review, reduce or even abolish penalties for those caught with the drug, Deputy Tom Binet said that a softer stance on possessing cannabis would “make a lot of sense”. And Chief Minister Lyndon Farnham said that although he […]
