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IT is now only a matter of weeks before the Island goes to the polls in what will qualify as a general election. As the Jersey Evening Post has pointed out, the full significance of the election can be understood only in relation to another political event of enormous importance – the contest for the post of Chief Minister.

SPEAKING in the States, Deputy Roy Le Hérissier described the policy of employing Islanders, as opposed to people from the UK, to senior public sector jobs as ‘hollow and non-existent’.

From Paul Le Claire. NINETY one people below 100,000 on census day. Way to go Senator Routier, MBE, Senator Ozouf and Senator Le Sueur. The total resident population of Jersey on 27 March 2011 was 97,857. This figure includes 6,061 residents of Jersey who were absent from the Island on census day and excludes 2,052 […]

THE road leading to the approval of the Island’s zero-ten business tax system has been long and occasionally rough. It has also been lined with commentators eager to insist that the formula would fail to meet criteria of acceptability set by the European Union.