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From John Henwood. HAVING been present at the recent Ministers’ Question Time event, well organised by the Chartered Institute for Professional Development, I should like to comment on the interest generated by one man’s questions. Early in the proceedings a man in the front row rose and identified himself as Paul Bellas and he briefly […]

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.