AS we lurch, slip and slide towards 2011 and Jersey’s first general election, let’s take a look back on the fun, pride and pleasure that our £2.3m worth of elected representatives gave us in 2010…
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Planning Minister says ‘No’ to rural supermarket site
ENVIRONMENT Minister Freddie Cohen has vowed to block any plans for a new supermarket outside of town.
Le Main: I was not involved in any planning corruption’
FORMER Housing Minister Terry Le Main has categorically denied any involvement in alleged planning corruption, describing the accusation against him as ‘absolutely scandalous’. Following claims made by Deputy Carolyn Labey in the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday that he was involved in ‘grand scale planning corruption’, the Senator has put his lawyer on standby. And he […]
Housing’s calendar cost defended
THE Housing Department has been criticised by two States Members over an £8,000 calendar sent to all tenants.
Housing trusts ‘are doing what they should be doing’
From Ken Hewitt, chairman, Les Vaux Housing Trust. I WAS interested to read your Saturday Interview with the new Housing Minister and his plans for the future of housing in the Island. While agreeing with some of his comments, I am afraid that I must take issue with him regarding his remarks relating to housing […]
If there’s one area where the islands can co-operate, it’s against architectural eyesores
THERE must be many Guernseymen and women who would like nothing better than to dump their waste on Jersey – if only to get us back for all the humiliating defeats suffered in numerous Muratti finals.
He should turn up for work – and not just when it suits
From Tim Ransom. SO Senator Terry Le Main doesn’t think it is anyone else’s business as to where he is when he should be at work, eh? Well, as a member of the electorate and therefore one of his many bosses, I would like a full explanation, and an apology, as to why he failed […]
Sorry, Senator, but no one is picking on you
From Angela Macdonald. I DO not feel that Senator Terry Le Main (JEP, 28 January) has been picked on. He should answer questions in an appropriate manner. Anyone else would have had to explain why they were absent from the States. He should be careful how he speaks to people, as he can come across […]
Let-off for Le Main
FORMER Housing Minister Terry Le Main has escaped punishment for interfering in the prosecution of a friend – and will be allowed to stand for a ministerial position again.
The question is whether it goes beyond the broad, generic anti-politician feeling that is as firmly rooted here as elsewhere
THE space allotted to this column is far too short to list all of the good things about the Blue Note Bar in Broad Street. That’s a shame, because I could write at Tolstoyesque length on this subject – about the beer, about the music, about the strange and slightly frightening ornaments, about the new stools…

