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DANDARA’S plans for Castle Quay have again come under fire, with fears that Jersey are being sold an ‘identikit’ project that may look like every other waterfront in the world.

HOME Office Minister Paul Goggins will be asked to help cut Jersey’s growing prison population by acting to stop UK police forces from allowing drug couriers to travel to the Island.

A SECOND attempt to exempt food, children’s clothes, medicines and books and newspapers from sales tax is being made by Senator Stuart Syvret.

A TEN per cent sales tax would be a ‘Robin Hood policy in reverse’ with children, the poor and the unemployed funding a 50 per cent reduction in the tax burden of the wealthy, says Senator Stuart Syvret.

SENATOR Stuart Syvret topped the poll in yesterday’s Senatorial election on a night that proved to be disastrous for Jersey’s two fledgling political parties.

SENATOR Stuart Syvret’s second attempt to persuade the States to exempt items like food and medicine from the sales tax has led to criticism from the Finance Committee president.

A PROPOSAL aimed at ensuring that politicians have the right to speak out freely in ministerial government was defeated in the States this morning.

A MOVE away from importing NHS thinking into Jersey’s health service is a key component of a deal that has led to a truce between nursing unions and health service managers.

POLITICIANS will have to decide whether food, children’s clothes and medicines should be exempt from the proposed goods and services tax.

JERSEY’S abortion law could be changed to allow women to have a termination in the Island in cases of significant foetal abnormality.