AFTER a disastrous showing when Jersey last went to the polls in June 2022, the Jersey Alliance has been dissolved by the Royal Court. Just one of the 14 Alliance candidates to contest seats at the last general election was successful, and now the party is over. The decision to dissolve was announced by chair […]
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Former Senator accuses two politicians of breaching code during energy adviser's visit
FORMER Senator Ted Vibert has lodged a complaint with the commissioner for standards about the conduct of two States Members during a visit last month from an energy adviser. Dr John Constable, who is associated with a UK organisation that challenges the mainstream response to climate change, was invited by the Jersey Climate Group to […]
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'Nowhere in any plans for the economy is there any serious reference to the tourism industry'
By Ted Vibert ANYONE who still believes that we have a healthy tourism industry can have spent only a few days in Jersey and know nothing of our history. You need to go back just 30 years to see that we once had 30,000 hotel and guesthouse beds available to accommodate our visitors. Now we […]
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'The joy of Christmas in bygone days… this special time of year brings back happy memories'
By Ted Vibert I HAVE always liked Christmas-time as it brings back so many memories and experiences – and I love seeing the look on the faces of young children when they are being held in the arms of their parents watching the lights going on in town or when they meet Father Christmas and […]
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'The speech I would have made had it been possible for me to be present at the people’s debate'
By Ted Vibert I WAS deeply disappointed when I found out that former States Members would not be permitted to take part in the first ever public debate held in the States Chamber, where members of the public were asked to volunteer to take part in a discussion about whether or not they approved of […]
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'An opportunity to become a world leader in the use of nuclear power'
By Ted Vibert FOR the past few months, the States of Jersey has spent a considerable amount of time debating and making a decision on the principle of allowing a large wind farm, with 72 massive pylons supporting huge blades driving turbines, to create electricity be located off our south-west coast. The States was told […]
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'Has Jersey lost its political mojo? In recent years, the government has taken a ‘can’t do’ approach'
By Ted Vibert OVER the last five years, there has been a growing picture of Jersey becoming an island where the policy of many government agencies and the government itself has become one of “no, you can’t do that” rather than one of “yes, that’s a great scheme, let’s go with it”. This attitude has […]
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There is hope for our tourism industry, but we need to change direction
By Ted Vibert IT is disappointing that our Economic Development Minister, Deputy Kirsten Morel, has done so little to encourage ways in which we can revitalise our once great tourism industry as it struggles to survive all the changes that have taken place in the UK tourism market that we once appealed to. There has […]
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'Of course Guernsey opted to go with Condor. They had a conflict of interest right from the start'
By Ted Vibert THE public tender to gain approval for the shipping ferry contract to provide sea links between Jersey, Guernsey and the UK mainland as well as France has been a hot topic of conversation in political circles this week – and with good reason. It’s been an unholy mess, which my fellow columnist […]
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'By becoming smaller, nuclear power’s popularity is growing'
By Ted Vibert I WROTE an article which this newspaper published last month headed: “An opportunity to become a world leader in the use of nuclear power.” In this article I advocated that, following the highly successful and safe development by Rolls Royce of the use of nuclear power to drive Britain’s fleet of submarines, […]
