THERE is no doubt who was the star of the 2008 Senatorial and Constable elections – the JEP’s very own Fly. Today, he talks about his polling day tour of the Island, and gives his thoughts on the three-week hustings roadshow. IT was during the second week of the campaign that Fly took to wearing […]
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Senatorial candidates to stand under JDA banner
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 […]
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Would this be a bridge too far?
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 […]
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This ‘crane facilities charge’ is nothing more than a stealth tax
From Roger Bale. WHO runs Jersey? Most of us would like to believe that as far as taxation and Island finance matters are concerned, it is the States. The States, knowing that harbour dues affect the price of all goods used in the Island, have stated that these should not increase at a rate greater […]
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Inflation in the spotlight in St Ouen
THE States have to control their spending in the current financial climate.
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Hustings: St Brelade No 2
MORE than 200 parishioners packed into Communicare on Friday as eight States hopefuls set out their campaign stalls. Voters were there to try to choose two candidates in St Brelade No 2, the most contested constituency in the forthcoming Deputies elections. Just one sitting States Member, Deputy Sean Power, is seeking to retain his seat. […]
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No support for importing milk
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 […]
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Rivals go to school for the teenage vote
ELECTION candidates are inviting school pupils to a special hustings meeting next Tuesday. The event – for the new teenage voters who will be taking part in this year’s elections for the first time – is being held at 4.15 pm at Hautlieu School. School pupils are being invited to go down and give the […]
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Life on the buses up for discussion
ST LAWRENCE Parish Hall was packed to hear the 21 Senatorial election hopefuls give their views on a variety of subjects at last night’s hustings meeting. The candidates each answered six questions at the meeting, chaired by retiring parish Constable Geoffrey Fisher, dealing with everything from the Bailiff’s Liberation Day speech to whether or not […]
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What’s Your Story? Ben Shenton
AS part of the What’s Your Story? campaign, launched by the Jersey Archive to encourage Islanders to investigate their family history, the JEP has published a series about the family history of prominent Islanders. The final articles in that series, the ancestry of Ben Shennton and Peter Mac, will be the subject of a talk […]
