HOME-grown country-rock star Frankie Davies is returning to Jersey this month following her sell-out European tour.
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‘I’m sorry for regime of abuse by Maguires’
Jersey Care Leavers Association have accepted formal apology from former head of Children’s Services Read the full statement from Anton Skinner below Mr Skinner admitted providing a letter to houseparents Alan and Jane Maguire to secure their swift removal from Blanche Pierre Read the full letter sent to the Maguires below A GROUP representing Islanders […]
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‘It’s time to tax the rich more,’ say Deputies
Reform Jersey call for urgent overhaul of Jersey’s tax system They believe high earners should be charged more to plug £125 million budget shortfall Do you agree? Take part in our poll below AN URGENT overhaul of Jersey’s tax system is required with high earners needing to be charged more to plug a £125 million […]
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Farewell to one of the good guys who lived on the hill
WHAT with one thing and another, it’s been a sad old week really. We had the great storm which nearly was, which I suppose taught us all yet again that if we’re told to expect the worst and it doesn’t happen then we should be both pleasantly surprised and grateful.
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This Assembly needs the wisdom of the Constables
From Terry Le Main. I WRITE in total support of the letter from John Le Sueur Gallichan, chairman of the Comité des Connétables (JEP 8 March) in regard to maintaining the parish Constables in the States. During my long time as a States Member, and especially as Housing president/Minister for 11 years, it was so […]
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A hospital chief who looks like being at home in the job
FIRST things first and, as Jessie Young used to tell us at Val Plaisant Infants, get straight on to that penitent stool and stay there for half an hour.
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It was ‘public duty’ to raise corruption concerns
THE States Member who accused a senior minister of planning corruption maintains that she had a public duty to raise the ‘genuine concerns’, even though a police investigation has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Minister is cleared of corruption
A FORMER Senator accused of planning corruption on a ‘grand scale’ while he was a minister has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
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Union ‘legend’ René Liron dies
A GIANT of Jersey’s trade union movement in the 1970s and 1980s has died.
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A very long time to prove a States Member’s innocence
SO last week we learned that, perhaps somewhat unprofessionally, some of our politicians don’t give some of their colleagues the time of day. No ‘Good morning’, no ‘How are you – how was your weekend?’ and certainly no ‘Fancy catching up for some lunch?’
