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THE Jersey Alliance has another five new candidates lined up to stand in next year’s general election and will choose its leader early next year, according to a founder member.

A POLITICAL party member has become the first to officially throw her hat into the ring for next year’s election.

JERSEY faces a housing ‘challenge’ but there is no crisis, the Treasury Minister has said, adding that the situation in the Island was not as bad as in India and Africa.

THE government is to receive a windfall of around £40million from the sale of a hi-tech division of JT earlier this year.

WHILE some politicians have appealed for unity in the wake of this week’s acrimonious debate on funding the Island’s new hospital, others have continued to share their reservations.

JERSEY’S newest political party – which has the backing of the majority of the Council of Ministers – has confirmed an intention to field at least 30 candidates in next year’s election.

A SENIOR business leader in Belfast has acknowledged that Jersey’s Spend Local scheme helped to persuade them that a similar initiative could stimulate the economy in Northern Ireland.

A ‘PIECEMEAL’ application to build an electricity sub-station to power a proposed cannabis farm in St Martin has been rejected by the planning committee, which condemned unauthorised work being carried out at the premises.

THE £804.5 million price tag for Jersey’s new hospital is ‘the going rate for a hospital of this scale’, an assistant minister has told States Members.