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A STATES Deputy has called for renewed vigilance to make sure the elderly, sick and mentally infirm do not starve to death in Island hospitals and care homes.

ISLANDERS are paying 14 per cent too much tax each because States departments are spending too much money, according to the Public Accounts Committee.

THE States are still dragging their feet on a 12-year-old recommendation to bring their accounts up to scratch, according to the head of the States spending watchdog.

THE cost of adding a gate to St Aubin’s Harbour to stop the sea draining out and creating a land reclamation scheme should be investigated, says Deputy Sarah Ferguson.

AROUND £160,000 is to be spent testing boreholes in Jersey in an attempt to discover whether there is fresh water flowing under the Island.

THE States could save £1 million a year by reducing the amount of office space they use, and there could be a case for putting all the Island’s civil servants in the same building, says the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

ST AUBIN residents last night issued a resounding and uncompromising ‘No’ to a reclamation scheme in the village.

PLANS to turn St Aubin’s harbour into a marina by adding a harbour gate are already being looked at by Economic Development.

HOME Affairs Minister Wendy Kinnard faces a volley of questions about internal police investigations of other officers in the States this week.