A PRO-CANNABIS campaign group has praised the States for “setting a direction of travel” on the potential legalisation and decriminalisation of the drug. Although States Members yesterday voted by 23 to 22 to reject the decriminalisation of personal possession and recreational use of the class B drug, a further move – adopted by 26 to […]
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Only time will show whether Jersey’s or Guernsey’s electoral system produces the better form of governance for voters
THE bailiwicks of the Channel Islands have similar constitutional histories. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the constitutional and governance architecture in Guernsey and Jersey are also alike, each having a Bailiff, a Lieutenant-Governor, Jurats, a unicameral parliament – known as the States Assembly in Jersey and the States of Deliberation in Guernsey – and so on.
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Minister calls for closer links with ‘best ally’ EU
JERSEY must ‘build and grow’ its relationship with the European Union and continue to talk directly to French fishermen and politicians in Normandy to resolve the fishing crisis, the External Relations Minister has said.
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New policy for foreshore ‘lacks clarity’
THE latest policy governing encroachments on the foreshore is fundamentally flawed and lacking in essential detail, a Scrutiny panel has found.
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Special States sitting arranged to debate hospital access route
A VOTE on whether to approve the controversial proposed access route to Jersey’s new hospital will now take place next week [1 February].
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Foreshore: New proposals are ‘no better’
MINISTERIAL proposals to resolve the controversy surrounding land on the Island’s foreshore are ‘no better’ than current arrangements, the Grouville Deputy has said.
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Fishermen ‘wrong to support UK over new law’
JERSEY fishermen are ‘very wrong’ to be supporting UK government legislation that could change how the Island’s waters are controlled, a former External Relations Minister has said.
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Former Bailiff barred from meeting about controversial foreshore policy
A FORMER Bailiff and ex-Senator was denied permission to sit in on a meeting with law officers, the Infrastructure Minister and a Deputy who is trying to stop landowners from being charged for foreshore encroachments.
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Buy-to-let property use ‘hard to control’
CONTROLLING the number of buy-to-let units is ‘hard’, the chairman of a Scrutiny panel has said, as it emerged that around two-thirds of Waterfront homes are listed as investment properties.
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‘Government has extorted money from Islanders,’ – ex-minister
THE government has been accused of ‘extorting’ money from two Islanders while its handling of the foreshore controversy has been labelled a ‘disgrace’ by a former Bailiff and ex-Assistant Chief Minister.
