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.
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Whistleblowing service receives 23 complaints
TWENTY-THREE complaints have been made by government staff via an independent whistleblowing service during 2019, new figures show.
Chief minister rejects panel’s hospital recommendations
THE Chief Minister has rejected a Scrutiny panel’s series of findings and recommendations about the Island’s new hospital.
Chief Minister hits back over plan criticism
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.
Laws banning people from their home if they are accused of domestic abuse are being considered
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.
Ministers ‘struggling to hold officers to account’
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.
States to consider extra bank holiday
WHETHER or not Jersey will have an additional bank holiday on 8 May 2020 is due to be decided in this week’s States sitting.
Parental leave: Deputy backs bid for 52 weeks
A PROPOSAL to introduce 52 weeks of parental leave should be trialled for a year and employers given government support if they begin to struggle, a politician has said.
Homelessness feature: ‘When everyone else wakes up and leaves the car park to go home to their family, one man had nowhere to go’.
‘IT’S just the way my life has gone,’ says the bearded man as he rests against a car parked on floor 11 of Pier Road car park. There are two carrier bags containing his only possessions by his feet.
E-bike scheme is a ‘subsidy for middle and high earners’
A DEPUTY has criticised the reintroduction of a States-funded e-bike scheme, describing it as a ‘subsidy for middle and high earners’.

