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NEXT week the States will debate proposals to radically reform the Island’s health service and to invest heavily in infrastructure projects, including a new hospital. Health provision already accounts for a major slice of public spending, but the level of investment now being proposed is of a new order entirely.

AS maiden speeches go it was a memorable one. Not because of the substance of what St Saviour Constable Sadie Rennard said when she took to her feet in the States on Wednesday morning – I don’t remember most of that.

I WROTE in these pages recently that the majority of Islanders just weren’t interested in sharing their thoughts about States reform with the Electoral Commission.

INEFFECTIVE, without teeth and a waste of time are just some of the criticisms that have been levelled at Jersey’s Scrutiny system in recent years.

A LOT has been said in this paper over the past few months about the Council of Ministers’ Strategic Plan for the next three years.

THE year of 2012 may go down in history as the year of the London Olympics, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the year that Curiosity successfully landed on Mars but, closer to home, it will also be remembered as the year that the our politicians went public consultation crazy.