IT just could not have been less scientific. There wasn’t a lab coat or a Bunsen burner in sight – what there was, and bear with me here, was a list of 51 names with a ‘P’ or an ‘I’ marked next to each one and two numbers scrawled across the bottom.
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Housing remains a major issue for States
From Paul Le Claire. BOTH candidates for Chief Minister referred to the current housing crisis in their election statements. Senator Sir Philip Bailhache said: ‘The rate of home ownership at some 60% is too low and urgent steps should be taken to create affordable housing and the means to get on the housing ladder.’ Senator […]
The Senatorial election is pretty much over already
GOOD news – the Senatorial election is pretty much over, bar the technical formalities of votes being cast, ballot papers being counted and results being read out.
Former Bailiff tops the poll in 11 parishes
Former Bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache has swept to victory in the Senatorial election, topping the poll in 11 of the 12 parishes.
Ex-Bailiff to stand for Senator
THE former Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, is to stand for election as a Senator, claiming that the States have ‘lost their way’.
Thirteen to battle for four Senatorial seats
THE starting gun has been fired in the 2011 election campaign after 13 candidates were nominated for Senator last night.
This most certainly isn’t the time for voters to be messing about with the untried or the untested
HAVING just read some of the online comments about last Wednesday’s series of elections to the Big House, I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter what the outcome of the democratic process, someone will always call ‘foul’ if a particular result doesn’t suit them.
The next Chief Minister
WHATEVER the outcome of Monday’s election for Chief Minister, a new beginning for the States is assured and a change of direction likely, with far-reaching consequences of obvious significance for all of us.
It was like the first day of school. Everyone had made an extra effort to be on time
You could see it, feel it even. There was no escaping it: excitement. It was in their smiles, their giggles and their all too eager eyes. It hung around them like clouds of cheap perfume at a school disco and clung to them like the smell of freshly chopped onions in a hot sweaty kitchen.
Maybe it’s time to campaign to get making our streets safe onto the election trail agenda
I HAVE read this newspaper almost ever since I can remember and well recall it being a broadsheet, which meant that, in my younger days at least, the easiest place for me to give it the attention it merited was on the floor in front of the fire.

