WHO wants to be Chief Minister? That was the burning question at last night’s Senatorial hustings in St Saviour. Nearly 200 parishioners packed into the parish hall to hear the 21 candidates give their views on subjects ranging from whether the rainy day fund should be spent now or saved until later to how they […]
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Help promised to middle-income earners
ALL 21 candidates promised to help middle-income earners at a packed St John hustings last night. With less than a week to go to the Senatorial elections next Wednesday, the candidates vowed to support middle-income earners, with many agreeing that GST should be scrapped or that income tax exemptions and allowances should be protected. The […]
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Hustings question: Missing States Members
THE 21 Senatorial candidates began their campaigning in earnest at St Clement’s Parish Hall last night. Just over 150 people crowded into the building for the first of the parish hustings meetings. St Clement Constable Derek Gray squeezed in six questions into the two-hour meeting by asking candidates to answer three questions at a time […]
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Hustings: New developments under fire in St Brelade
THE Planning department came under heavy fire last night at the Deputy hustings in St Brelade No 1, with parishioners and candidates alike attacking recent developments in the parish. Next week three newcomers will battle it out for one seat in the district, left vacant following Deputy Sarah Ferguson’s promotion to Senator last month. It […]
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£60m plan for health reforms
THE biggest shake-up of the Island’s healthcare system in a generation is due to be unveiled in the New Year and could cost as much as £60 million. The New Directions policy, which has been in the pipeline for at least two years, sets out how healthcare will be organised and funded in years to […]
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Tax break for middle earners?
MIDDLE earners could be in line for a temporary tax break. With middle-income families likely to feel the pinch from the ramifications of the global credit crunch, and with the possibility of finance industry job losses hovering on the horizon, moves to put back the ’20 means 20′ package of Income Tax allowance cuts and […]
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Free nursery places for all aged three to four
THERE will be free nursery places for all three- and four-year-olds from next September after the States overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the Business Plan on Friday. Politicians voted by 42 to two with one abstention to support the proposal after nearly two hours of debate. The proposal will create a public-private partnership that Education […]
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Election hopefuls back general election
ALL of the Senatorial candidates would be willing to stand down in four years’ time, if elected next week, to enable the Island to have a general election. Asked at the Trinity hustings last night if it was something that they would be prepared to do, all 21 candidates responded with a definite ‘yes’. Trinity […]
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St Martin: Candidates discuss engaging the public
CANDIDATES at the St Martin Senatorial hustings last night faced questions on what they would do to engage voters. Parishioner Alex Glendinning asked the 21 candidates how they would get more people interested in politics and persuade them to vote. Senator Mike Vibert said that he had introduced citizenship classes for all ten-year-olds and visits […]
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Student hustings
JUST 22 teenagers turned up to grill the 21 Senatorial candidates at Hautlieu School yesterday. Following a lowering of the voting age to 16 and a huge push by the States to get younger people interested in the elections, only a small group were interested enough to attend yesterday’s special hustings. But despite there being […]
