Agenda 2019

  http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=509441 Condor granted a five year temporary extension to their operating license.    Economic Development Minister Alan McClean   What "further negotiations " are necessary? What further considerations need to be considered? The ships are dirty and grubby, the reclining seats  are mostly broken and remain un repaired. The service is unreliable, and that is not only due to the weather. The cost of traveling on Condor is extortionate. What more is there to understand or talk about? Condor ferries Another report in today's channelonline.tv states that the number of visitors to Jersey has declined by 40% since 2000. Taking into consideration that more the 70% of Jersey visitors come from mainland UK, it is not unreasonable to assume that the cost of travel to the Island is a significant contribution to the falling tourist numbers. Under these circumstances, the decisi...

  http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=506659 Attempts to hold on to Jersey's tourism industry   For all intents and purposes, the problems that the States has in the tourist sector are entirely of their own making. All it seems has been sacrificed on the altar of "Finance" at the expense first of agriculture and then tourism. It seems to me that the vision of creating a Dubai type Island off the coat of France full of exclusive hotels, rich financiers, Corporate Banks and luxury accommodation was only ever a wishful thinking mirage, and in pursuit of that dream the Island has fallen between stools and now has an identity crisis of huge proportions. The historic skills of agriculture have been irretrievably lost and traditional tourist accommodation has been closed or demolished to make way for "prestigious" projects. The lack of tourists in Jersey has little to do with the weather, perhaps something to do with the recess...

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=503306  Debate scheduled for today has been postponed until February 19th. H istoric care home abuse inquiry . Haut de la Garenne   It should come as no surprise to anyone that the terms of the proposed Committee of Inquiry isn't robust enough. Nor should it be surprising that the debate scheduled for today has been postponed until February 19th.   Members voted in favour of an inquiry  The whole scandal of the Historic Child abuse investigation  is littered with delay, ineptitude, attempts to cover up facts, discredit witnesses, victims and investigators and protect the perpetrators of the abuse and reluctance to pursue the matter with the determination it demands. More delay and prevarication is only to be expected. The sinister question which refuses to go away and repeatedly emerges from the mists surrounding this matter, is "Why are the Jersey Authorities and e...