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A ‘LACK of information’ on how £40 million of public sector efficiencies are due to be made next year was the reason why a backbencher voted against the Government Plan this week.

STREET entertainers will be allowed to use amplifiers while performing if proposals to relax Jersey’s busking laws are approved by the States this week.

OVERHAULING Jersey’s electoral system so that Islanders can directly elect the Chief Minister would boost engagement in Jersey politics, which is ‘seriously lacking’, two States Members have said.

SOMEONE must take political responsibility for Jersey’s unfolding tax debacle, which has angered and confused hundreds of Islanders, a backbencher has said.

CHIEF Minister John Le Fondré’s Government Plan was approved by the States yesterday, paving the way for £100 million of efficiencies to be made in the public sector by 2023.

TWENTY-THREE complaints have been made by government staff via an independent whistleblowing service during 2019, new figures show.

SENATOR Kristina Moore and Deputy Kirsten Morel have been singled out by the Chief Minister in an open letter for criticism and ‘planting seeds of uncertainty’ about the government’s spending plans.

CONTROVERSIAL laws banning people from their own homes for up to four weeks as soon as they are accused of domestic abuse are still being considered, four years after the previous Home Affairs Minister raised the issue.

A POLITICIAN has asked whether the Council of Ministers is struggling to hold officers to account as a battle to obtain more detail of the government’s proposed £100 million of cuts rumbles on.