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Syvret raid: ‘I felt violated’
DEPUTY Carolyn Labey has attacked the States police for raiding her home during the arrest of Senator Stuart Syvret. She says that it was unlawful and unnecessary. In a strongly worded statement, the Deputy said that she felt violated by the search and added that her elderly mother had found the raid more hostile than […]
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He ignores the mutual benefit
From Robert Kisch. LORD William Wallace is quoted by Ben Quérée (JEP, 10 August) as regarding constitutional charters granted to Jersey 800 years ago by King Charles as irrelevant. Radio Jersey quote a similar interview, which bases Lord Wallace’s concerns on the huge increase of funds passing through Jersey and the risk of ‘small jurisdiction […]
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Bailiff: Why I will not e-mail Senator Syvret
THE Bailiff today told Senator Stuart Syvret that he was not prepared to enter into correspondence with someone who had described him as having the ‘ethics of a Bangkok pimp’. During the arrangement of public business in the States, Senator Syvret was asking why one of his propositions — concerning an investigation into the death […]
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Surgeon’s suspension ‘is a grave injustice’
A STATES Deputy is calling for the independent investigation into the death of staff nurse Elizabeth Rourke to look at the suspension of consultant gynaecologist John Day.
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Court orders arrest of Senator Syvret
SENATOR Stuart Syvret’s arrest has been ordered after he failed to turn up to court for the second time this week.
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Order, please. Oh, and a little light relief would be nice …
THE standard of debate in Charlie Chuckle’s Laughter Factory is more akin to that of a playground than a political chamber, with infantile insults being bandied across the floor of the House.
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Shenton says ‘end this circus’
SENATOR Ben Shenton says that he will boycott Tuesday’s emergency States sitting because it will be a pointless waste of time. The Senator, who is the head of the Public Accounts Committee and the senior Scrutiny chairman, says that Members should have better things to do. He says that the public are fed up with […]
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‘I have proof that spin doctors manipulated e-mails,’ says Syvret
STATES ‘spin doctors’ manipulated and forged e-mails to smear Lenny Harper’s reputation, Senator Stuart Syvret has claimed.
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A week in politics
I WAS born in 1977 – way, way too late for the golden years of journalism. I had hopes, though, dreams of unmarked envelopes containing fabulous leaked documents, meetings in smoky back rooms, images of running into the Editor’s office an hour after deadline with some awesome story and hearing him rush out yelling:’Stop the press!’
