FORMER St Helier Constable Bob Le Brocq has claimed that for decades senior civil servants have denied politicians information related to the Island’s waste system.
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Eleven Members back law-breaking Deputies
ELEVEN States Members have signed a letter in support of two St Helier No 2 Deputies who face sentencing for breaking the Public Elections Law. They say the law as it stands is unfair, and particularly restricts old and unwell voters from participating in free and fair elections. Deputies Geoff Southern and Shona Pitman are […]
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Propaganda and the truth
From Edward Gallarde. I WRITE in support of B Amy and against his critics. While they spout right-wing propaganda, Mr Amy writes the truth. Throughout the 1930s the Jersey labour movement was growing in strength, despite unemployment and appalling wages. My father was working at the docks; he was lucky to bring home £2 a […]
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Syvret wants to call A-G as his witness
SENATOR Stuart Syvret wants to call the Attorney General as a witness in his abuse of process hearing, which he says centres on a ‘criminal conspiracy against him’.
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Syvret: It wasn’t me, says AG
ATTORNEY General William Bailhache has denied that he instigated the arrest of Senator Stuart Syvret on suspicion of breaching data protection laws. The Senator was arrested outside his Grouville home on Monday morning and held at police headquarters for some seven hours, much of the time in a cell. But Mr Bailhache (pictured) says that […]
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Syvret: ‘It was like cops and robbers’
SENATOR Stuart Syvret says that his arrest yesterday was like something out of a ‘New York cops and robbers TV series’. He used his one phone call after being arrested yesterday morning to call the JEP Newsdesk to describe the arrest — and said that the police did not have a warrant to search the […]
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Waste: Politicians ‘kept in the dark’
FORMER St Helier Constable Bob Le Brocq has claimed that for decades senior civil servants have denied politicians information related to the Island’s waste system.
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UK police forces seek Jersey search powers
POLICE in the UK would not have had the power to search Senator Stuart Syvret’s home without a warrant, the JEP has discovered.
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Abuse inquiry: Senator’s High Court bid fails
A HIGH Court bid to get Justice Secretary Jack Straw to intervene in Jersey’s child abuse inquiry was rejected in London yesterday. Senator Stuart Syvret, along with Liberal Democrat John Hemming MP, acting under the name of Justice For Families Ltd, appeared before Lord Justice Richards sitting with Mr Justice Tugendhat in the Royal Courts […]
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We’re not to blame for UK’s decision on health cover
A letter to the JEP from Mr A Sowman, from Preston, says that this small rock is cutting off its nose to spite its face – something he describes as an old Lancashire saying – by ‘withdrawing health cover for visitors’.
