THIS year’s Jersey International Air Display will go ahead, after a successful last-ditch call for more funding. Last week organisers revealed that they still needed £75,000 to put on the event, leaving it on the verge of cancellation. Although they did not hit their £75,000 target, organisers said ten companies and individuals had come forward […]
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Things have now become more difficult due to the empowerment of children from an early age
By Lindsay Ash SOMEONE once said that “teachers are well overpaid as educators and massively underpaid as child carers”, and I thought of that quote when I read that a recent survey stated that two out of five teachers in the UK said they had been attacked in schools. We also had something similar suggested […]
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Jersey needs to have its own stake in AI – even if it’s only in providing a regulatory service
By Lindsay Ash AI has become one of the new buzz words of our age or I suppose buzz letters if I am being accurate. Before I start, in order to spare the JEP letters from Angry of Green St, I realise that what I am about to write confuses AI with all sorts of […]
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The new hospital: A disaster of proportions that Nick Leeson would have found alarming
By Lindsay Ash SO, I left you last week with the new government all set to be formed and it had little to do as far as the new hospital was concerned. It had planning permission, a price, a contractor and a method of funding it – although they’d have had to move swiftly and […]
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Junior stars bring the spark for Jersey Table Tennis
FOLLOWING an action-packed weekend for Jersey’s table tennis stars, head coach Miguel Freitas was glowing with praise for the “magnificent” performance of his young stars. The JTTA competed in both the Channel Island Championships and the inter-insular contest in Guernsey over the weekend, with the latter going the way of the Sarnians. Despite the hosts […]
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Tennis has fewer characters now. Long gone are the days of Nastase and McEnroe going beserk…
By Lindsay Ash NEXT week sees the start of Wimbledon, the world’s greatest tennis tournament. Or to put it another way, as I never tired of telling my American colleagues, the All England Tennis Championships. Whether it’s just age or not I don’t know but I think the event has lost something over the years. […]
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'Plenty of people moan about the state of local politics – but few are prepared to do anything about it'
By Lindsay Ash NOW we are well into the second year of this Assembly I feel that I can safely answer the questions often put to me. Namely: do you regret launching a party? What did you hope to achieve? And: why did it fail? These are my views. Other Alliance candidates may see things […]
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Party disbands a year after disappointing election night
THE Progress Party has formally disbanded – a year after a disastrous night at the polls which left it with just one member in the States. In a catalogue of defeats during the 2022 election, the party saw its leader, Steve Pallet, voted out and two new candidates fail to win a seat. Only party […]
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If you are going to read ONE article on the Hospital saga then I suggest you make it this one
By Lindsay Ash “WHY are you talking about the bloody hospital? We are all fed up with it.” I understand the sentiment and agree with it but I also think it’s VITAL that the Jersey taxpayer is given the facts as to where their money has gone and, more importantly, will continue to go over […]
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What do you get when you fork out school fees?
By Lindsay Ash I RECENTLY attended a conference on schools and someone asked me a very good question: “What should you be getting for your money if you are paying fees?”The obvious and correct answer is of course “something better than you receive in the States system”, as it would be very odd to pay […]
