JERSEY Lifts drivers can be ‘good for the environment’ and can help tackle drink-driving, the Home Affairs Minister said during questions about the controversial service in the States on Tuesday.
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Mentoring scheme appeals to firms to listen to youth
A SCHEME which turns traditional mentoring on its head by encouraging board members to take advice from 18- to 25-year-olds rather than give it has been launched in Jersey.
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Letter to the Editor: Breastfeeding in public is offensive – why can’t mothers do it at home?
I NOTICE in the JEP (20 July) that Deputy Kristina Moore has pronounced herself ‘The States’ breastfeeding champion’. How very odd. To be a champion one must be ‘the best at whatever that person is undertaking at that time’. I object most strongly to having to share space with a suckling child while I am enjoying a coffee, reading my paper and offending no one, minding my own business.
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Centre for victims of sex attacks open soon
VICTIMS of sexual assault and rape will be able to visit a new support centre from next month.
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Minister backs driving penalty points system
THE Home Affairs Minister has backed calls for the introduction of a penalty points system for motoring offences.
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COMMENT: It’s not only the Lycra-clad louts who are a dangerous nuisance
IT seems that scarcely a week goes past without the subject of cyclists or the facilities provided for them – but ignored by a sizeable majority – making news in the form of correspondence to this newspaper and, according to Herself when she thinks I’ve gone over the top, provoking ‘yet another alcohol-fuelled rant’.
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New laws to stop wheel-clamping
LAWS to make wheel-clamping a criminal offence in Jersey are due to be lodged this year, almost a decade after the States first agreed it should be banned.
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New disciplinary code for senior police officers
JERSEY’S two most senior police officers will become subject to the same disciplinary code as all officers, if new regulations are approved by the States.
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New disciplinary code for senior police officers
JERSEY’S two most senior police officers will become subject to the same disciplinary code as all officers, if new regulations are approved by the States.
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COMMENT: So, States Members don’t know what they are doing
WELL, now we’ve got it in writing and, moreover, in an official report. Some of the upper echelons of that lot in the Big House, otherwise known as the Cabinet or Council of Ministers, are unaware of the powers, duties and responsibilities they ought to be aware of if they are to do their jobs properly.
