WITH a scathing report on the sell-off of States properties apparently looming, a new Housing Minister will be elected tomorrow.
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Power tries for Housing Minister
DEPUTY Sean Power will be a candidate to replace Senator Terry Le Main as Housing Minister.
J-category housing decision to be shelved – for now
THE decision to allow essential employees to buy any property in Jersey has been shelved – for now.
A Week in Politics
I’D have to say that it would be a fairly loose interpretation of the role of Housing Minister that included: a) lobbying the Law Officers to drop a prosecution under the Housing Law; b) moaning to the Royal Court about flaws in the law that you’ve personally been in charge of administering for around a decade; and c) asking the court to go easy on someone for breaking the same bit of legislation.
A Week in Politics
YOU’LL have been glued to your radio all week, no doubt, following the progress of the States. I can’t say I blame you. Whether ministers should get free BlackBerrys, the size of the quorum, the make-up of a panel reviewing the future of Fort Regent – these are big questions that affect every single one of us, and which could change life in Jersey forever.
Stop picking on me – there is no way I would ever mock the public
From Senator Terry Le Main. PLEASE be kind enough to publish this letter so I can explain to your readers my defence to your seeming campaign of picking on me for absenting myself from the first States meeting of 2010 by going on holiday. Firstly, may I say it’s really sad and pathetic that for […]
Planning: Why we missed Plémont debate
MEMBERS of the Island’s Planning applications panel have defended their decisions to withdraw from the Plémont debate earlier this week.
The policies have to be joined up, too
IT’S a shame that Hollywood doesn’t do leading men in the shape of Senators Freddie Cohen and Ian Le Marquand, because there was a touch of tinseltown magic about both last week.
Historic cost of living fall
THE cost of living in Jersey was less at the end of June this year than it was 12 months before – the first time there has been a fall since records began in 1948.
Minister seeks one-year cut in Housing quallies
HOUSING Minister Terry Le Main plans to reduce Housing qualifications by a year. Senator Le Main will lodge a proposition next week to reduce the period of residency required for qualifications from 12 years to 11. If the States agree to the proposal, then the plans could come into force by the summer. But the […]

