THE Chief Minister’s policy development boards include ‘the same old faces’ and are ‘almost a political party’, a States backbencher has said.
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Police to seek extra funding to increase officer numbers
POLICE budget cuts have gone far enough and more money is being sought by the force to boost officer and staff numbers, the JEP has learned.
Five-year lack of action on rezoned land is ‘scandalous’
QUESTIONS have been raised about why disused glasshouses and other brownfield sites are not being used for affordable homes, including a plot in St Ouen that was rezoned for the purpose five years
ago.
Senator calls for hate crime law
SENATOR Kristina Moore has called on Home Affairs Minister Len Norman to ensure that hate crime legislation is introduced.
Deputy sacked as assistant minister
BRINGING a vote of no confidence was the ‘nuclear option’ after a lack of an improved pay offer for large sections of the civil service, Deputy Geoff Southern has said – as he was sacked as Assistant Social Security Minister.
‘Probation service should stay independent of States’
JERSEY’S Probation Service must be kept independent of government, according to the organisation’s chief who said proposals to include the service in a super-Justice and Home Affairs Department were ‘distracting’.
Parishioners vote in favour of pursuing Ville du Manoir scheme
ST Peter residents narrowly voted in favour of continuing to pursue a controversial affordable-housing scheme in their parish on Thursday night.
New finances law is rushed and undemocratic, say critics
A NEW law to modernise the way States finances are managed could be changed after concerns were raised that it is being rushed through and is undemocratic.
St Peter residents to vote on affordable housing proposals
PARISHIONERS of St Peter are to be asked their views on how plans for affordable housing should be taken forward.
Hospital saga a ‘disgrace’
PROGRESS on the Future Hospital project has stalled – with ministers no closer to proposing a new site after the Gloucester Street approval was rescinded in February, the JEP can reveal.

