Senator Terry Le Main has retained his seat as Housing Minister by just two votes over challenger Senator Alan Breckon. Senator Le Main won 27 votes and Senator Breckon, 25, in the election in the States today. The election of the Housing Minister completed the makeup of the Council of Ministers as follows, with the […]
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Senior civil servant subject of ‘disclosure’
POLICE have served a disclosure notice about a senior civil servant to his employers as part of their major inquiry into historical child abuse. The Education department civil servant was the subject of a clash in the States yesterday when Senator Stuart Syvret used parliamentary privilege to name him after another Member had asked a […]
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Conclusions that few will argue with
THE Howard League’s review of the Jersey youth justice system has been described as an ‘apocalyptic’ document.
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Abuse: Minister silent on staff involvement
THE Education Minister refused to reveal in the States yesterday if any of his department’s employees were currently under investigation by the police for child abuse allegations. Senator Mike Vibert (pictured) said that he was not in a position to answer the question from Senator Stuart Syvret because of a conflict with the ongoing child […]
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Syvret: ‘All our trust has gone’
THE vast majority of Islanders have ‘no confidence, faith or trust’ in the Council of Ministers, Senator Stuart Syvret said yesterday. He argued that Senator Frank Walker’s ministerial team had lost touch with the electorate and were guilty of a series of gaffes which underlined their incompetence. Senator Syvret spoke for more than an hour […]
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Call to finance voters
OUTGOING Chief Minister Frank Walker called on the finance industry to get out and vote for the politicians who support it in a ‘farewell speech’ to the Institute of Directors yesterday. Mr Walker – who is still technically the Chief Minister until the ministerial appointments are made tomorrow – told the audience of 150 members […]
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Bailiff survives sacking move
A MOVE to sack the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, was comprehensively voted down by the States yesterday. Deputy Shona Pitman’s proposition was defeated by 47 votes to three, despite her protest that Sir Philip had failed to act on former Vingtenier Roger Holland’s conviction for a child sex offence before his election in 1992, and […]
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Direct political control of the police has a name. It is called fascism
From Senator Stuart Syvret. THE comments of Ian Le Marquand, advocate, former Magistrate and now standing for the office of Senator (JEP, 23 July) are among the most deeply disturbing I have ever heard from an election candidate in Jersey. I know that Jersey grandees — with their natural presumption to power — live in […]
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It was the pot calling the kettle black
From Bridget Murphy ‘THE pot calling the kettle black’ sprang to mind as I read one of your regular Senator Stuart Syvret verbose quotes, when he stated that: ‘It is profoundly dangerous and clearly nothing more than self-aggrandising fantasy of a couple of insular, obsolete, spoilt, overgrown schoolboys’ in response to the prospect of Jersey […]
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Is it time for some politicians to step down?
From Sean Kelly. WITH reference to the last week in the States in which we witnessed a vote of no confidence against the Council of Ministers and a vote of censure against the Chief Minister, I have to now ask whether it is time for some politicians to step down? I listened to every speech […]
