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THE election gloves came off at the St Mary Senatorial hustings last night – and ministers took a beating. The three sitting Senators on the podium had an uncomfortable time as the audience of around 70 applauded attacks on the Council of Ministers. The 21 candidates continue on the hustings trail in Grouville tonight and […]

ONE of the unusual things about the Senatorial elections is the emergence of factions on the platform. Although only two of the 21 candidates are members of a formal political party, more than half of them fit into one of four distinct groups: ministers, the Jersey Democratic Alliance, Time4Change and Jersey 2020. The platform is […]

TIME4CHANGE campaigner Montfort Tadier is to stand for Senator. The 29-year-old, who runs a translation company, is standing on a platform of reform and rescinding decisions on GST and the proposed £100 million incin-erator. He is one of two founding memb-ers of the Time4-Change group to announce his candidacy today. Nick Le Cornu is also […]

DEPUTY Geoff Southern and youth worker Trevor Pitman will stand in the Senatorial election under the Jersey Democratic Alliance banner. The pair – 58 and 48 respectively – will stand as JDA members after the party was formally registered in the Royal Court on Friday. They are the 14th and 15th candidates to declare for […]

JERSEY must do more to harness tidal energy – that was the unanimous view of the 21 Senatorial candidates in Grouville last night. At the third hustings, several candidates also proposed more use of wind and solar power, and a handful said that tidal energy turbines could be combined with a bridge to France which […]

He buzzed into Tuesday night’s hustings at First Tower (the first of 14 meetings over the next eight days) to hear from the 11 candidates vying for the four seats in St Helier No 3 and became instantly confused when the first people he encountered were Montfort Tadier, Nick Le Cornu, Senator-elect Alan Breckon and […]

THE question of importing milk was raised at last night’s hustings meeting. Andrew Le Gallais (pictured) asked the 21 candidates whether they agreed with the suggestion by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority executive director, Chuck Webb, that there should be unlimited importation of milk into the Island or a States subsidy towards production to keep […]