Why we pay tax in Jersey, what we get for it, and whether any of it is building the Island's future Every Islander pays into a bargain they were never handed to sign. We surrender a slice of our inco...

The Island's spending watchdog has confirmed that the government's new model for projecting future healthcare costs is "sufficiently robust" and provides a solid foundation for decision-making. The Co...

When Lyndon Farnham named his Council of Ministers at the end of June, he defended his choices — several of them familiar faces returning to portfolios they'd held before — explicitly on the basis of ...

A Consumer Council finding lands on the desk of a government elected on a promise to bring costs down — and the regulator's own numbers don't add up to the gap.

Buyers and sellers are being hit with eleventh-hour instructions to separate surface water from foul sewers, sometimes a day or two before their contract is due to pass before the Royal Court. With no clear right of appeal, and a legal grandfather clause that appears to protect many of the very properties being targeted, is the Infrastructure department using its position in the conveyancing chain to enforce a policy the law itself doesn't require?

Removing GST from food would return proportionally more to Jersey's lowest-income households than their existing share of the island's income would suggest — even though, in raw cash terms, wealthier ...

A post doing the rounds on Facebook this week made a point worth taking seriously: the Island's civil register office, moved from Royal Square to 25 New Street in March 2024, is not built for the thin...

The new Planning Minister has suggested Jersey's minimum apartment size rules could be revisited as part of an effort to reduce red tape and make it easier to deliver new housing. It sounds like a se...

Every time Jersey elects a new Council of Ministers, the clock starts on one of the least-noticed but most structurally important obligations in the Island's constitution. Under Article 18(2)(e) of th...

This week the States Assembly logged ten ministerial decisions covering financial services regulation, mental health law, planning and policing matters. The items include amendments to proceeds of crime and banking orders, updates to school support policy, and the publication of an annual policing c

The Jersey Audit Office has given Revenue Jersey a largely positive report, praising its governance, management and major transformation projects. But while the audit concludes the Island's tax office...

During the ministerial appointment hearings on 30th June, something really positive happened. Deputy Samantha Gleave asked Senator Elaine Millar about the Long-Term Care Scheme. What followed was an e...

For many of you the glorious British sporting summer maybe passing you by ...the doubts over whether a certain mount will be able to cope with Tattenham Corner? Who has won the toss at Lords ? or who'...

This morning, with the final appointments made, Jersey's new Council of Ministers took office — and Senator Lyndon Farnham formally assumed his role as Chief Minister.

Hitler and Stalin are sitting in the bar in Hell ...("Beelzebub's" for those of you looking for a watering hole in later life ) and arguing who was the most unpopular politician ever , "has to me said...

Defending his ministerial line-up to the Jersey Evening Post this week, the Chief Minister reached for a principle that sounds unimpeachable. "It's important that the new government reflects the make-...

On Monday, Jersey's 49 elected Members will decide who will form the next Council of Ministers. Much of the attention will be on the Chief Minister's nominations. But there is another part of the pr...

The list is out, and it landed almost exactly where we said it would. At 9:30 this morning, a week after he was confirmed unopposed, Lyndon Farnham named the team he wants to run Jersey for the next f...

At 9:30 tomorrow morning, Friday 26 June, Lyndon Farnham must publish the names of the people he wants to run Jersey for the next four years. His proposed Council of Ministers will be put to the Assembly on Monday 29 June, when each ministry is filled by a vote and other members may put themselves forward against his choices. It is the most consequential list the new Chief Minister will produce, and the question hanging over it is a simple one. Will this be a government chosen for who is best equipped to run each department — or a government chosen to reward the people who won an island-wide mandate?

In 2011, Ian Gorst proposed that up to £750,000 of the value of a person's main residence would be disregarded when assessing eligibility for support. He argued that people who had worked hard all their lives should not face the prospect of losing their home because they needed care. For many Islanders, this was one of the most important elements of the proposal. The message was clear. The scheme would help protect ordinary homeowners from the catastrophic financial consequences of long-term care.