THE Infrastructure, Housing and Environment Department has been renamed again – in a change the government said would ‘more accurately reflect the responsibilities, remit and duties of its workforce of approximately 700 people’. With housing work now being co-ordinated by the government’s new Cabinet Office, IHE is to be called the Infrastructure and Environment Department […]
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Letters to the Editor: Thankfully, sensible politicians are now looking at the hospital project
From Richard Cole. I WRITE in reference to the front-page article (JEP 2 September) headlined: ‘Future-hospital plan “no longer feasible”’. Thankfully, the public have elected sensible politicians who are prepared to look at the practical and monetary implications involved in continuing the hospital folly. I find it disturbing, but not surprising, that Deputy Lyndon Farnham […]
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Super League Triathlon won't be held in Jersey this year
THE Super League Triathlon will not be held in Jersey this year – after the government confirmed that funding for the event had been pulled. First staged in the Island in 2017, the sport’s top athletes – including Olympic gold medal winners – have competed at the Waterfront-based event. But having had funding pulled for […]
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UN treaty reignites call for Jersey marine park
A HISTORIC agreement by United Nations member states to safeguard large swathes of the world’s oceans has reignited calls for a marine park in Jersey’s waters. The High Seas Treaty was recently agreed by nearly 200 nations and provides a legal framework to establish marine protected areas across two-thirds of the space covered by oceans […]
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New longer work permits expected
NEW 12-month work permits for the hospitality sector – renewable for up to three years – are due to be introduced to combat crippling staff shortages, the Home Affairs Minister has confirmed. Deputy Helen Miles told the States Assembly yesterday that post-Brexit regulations, which meant migrant workers required visas to work in the Island, were […]
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‘Cannabis should be free as part of health service’
THE government should consider making medicinal cannabis freely available as part of the Island’s health service, a States Member has said. Deputy Lyndon Farnham also believes that a flourishing medicinal-cannabis industry would have a clear economic benefit to the Island and hopes the government will continue the work he started while Economic Development Minister which […]
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Bid to get Senators back not over yet, says Deputy
MOVES to reinstate the role of Senator are ‘by no means off the table’, according to the politician behind the proposition to restore the Islandwide mandate, which was narrowly defeated in the States. Deputy Ian Gorst was defiant after seeing his proposals knocked back by 24 votes to 23 after a debate lasting more than […]
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Letters to the Editor: Confusion and uncertainty
From Malcolm Ray. You will no doubt receive many letters and comments about pausing the hospital development, with many saying we need to just get on with it, citing the amount spent already. Had the site selection not been flawed, construction of the new hospital could have begun. We are told that all options were […]
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Multi-site hospital: ‘Money put before health’
THE government is ‘putting money ahead of health’ in its preferred multi-site hospital, according to the former minister with responsibility for the discarded Overdale project. Deputy Lyndon Farnham said that it was clear that the government could not give any assurance that their alternative scheme would turn out to cost less than the Overdale development […]
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‘It makes a mockery of our democratic process'
MOVES to potentially scrap the approved plan for Jersey’s future hospital at Overdale ‘makes a mockery of our democratic process’, the former political lead for the project has said. Deputy Lyndon Farnham, who held political responsibility for the Our Hospital Project during his previous term of office, described the news as ‘hugely disappointing, probably expensive, […]
