This Blog is set up as an alternative news outlet. It will hopefully bring some indepth interviews and cover current affairs and ask questions our local "journalists" don't..... or won't.
Jersey Elections 2022
A blog revived for the Jersey Elections.
We welcome contributions relevant to the elections on 22 June for Constables and Deputies.
If you want to be interviewed on video, contact me (editor) Mike Dun
Email: mikedunjersey@gmail.com
voiceforchildren: Opinion Management: Here is another stark example of how Jersey's State Media "opinion manage" rather than report "facts" in a Un-bias and objective way. The...
voiceforchildren: “Entirely Accurate” (2): In the POSTING of former DCO Lenny Harper’s letter, sent to the Royal Television Society and Channel Television, the last sentence writte...
voiceforchildren: Opinion Management: Here is another stark example of how Jersey's State Media "opinion manage" rather than report "facts" in a Un-bias and objective way. The...
voiceforchildren: No-Body-Remains: With yet another promise being broken to the Abuse Survivors, and the people of Jersey, in that the Council of Ministers are now saying ther...
voiceforchildren: No-Body-Remains: With yet another promise being broken to the Abuse Survivors, and the people of Jersey, in that the Council of Ministers are now saying ther...
voiceforchildren: Opinion Management: Here is another stark example of how Jersey's State Media "opinion manage" rather than report "facts" in a Un-bias and objective way. The...
RICO SORDA: COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY 3: Senator Bailhache in his role as Bailiff Never be afraid to ask the questions Here is an email I have sent Senator Bailhache about h...
The last desperate attack from the old guard. They know that Pandoras Box is ready to explode. Father time catches up with all regimes.
RICO SORDA: The Srutiny Sub Panel Review: Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel Issues surrounding the review of financial management of Operation Rectangle Pr...
Rico will be back Blogging soon.
This is a posting on one of the most definitive documents concerning the Jersey Child Abuse Cover-up
voiceforchildren: Publish The Defence Case.: In July 2010 Jersey's Home Affairs Minister, Senator Ian Le Marquand, released parts of a confidential Report authored by the then Chief C...
voiceforchildren: "Deep" questions remain.: On the 12th November 2008 Mick Gradwell and acting Chief Police Officer David Warcup issued a press release, which was re-produced on VFP ...
voiceforchildren: Abracadabra.: You’ll like this - not a lot - but you’ll like it. Question. How does a piece of child’s skull containing 1.6 per cent collagen (which is o...
voiceforchildren: Rico Sorda part 1 (of 2).: Fellow Jersey Blogger Rico Sorda has now been Blogging for a year. To mark his first anniversary he, very bravely, decided to go on came...
voiceforchildren: Opinion Management: Here is another stark example of how Jersey's State Media "opinion manage" rather than report "facts" in a Un-bias and objective way. The...
voiceforchildren: Summary of Evidence: "Jon/Jane Doe Raped Here WHO WILL SAVE US?" The piece of "graffiti" above, taken from the wall of the south west wing toilets at Haut...
The first “open to the public” Scrutiny hearing of 2012 and the newly elected States of Jersey took place on Friday 27 January.
This also happened to be world-wide Holocaust Memorial Day and the scrutiny panel hearing with the Minister of Health, two Assistant Ministers and several most senior civil servants of the Health Department did not have human rights on its collective mind.
In fact, although the whole hour of scrutiny talk was taken up with discussions about the latest external report to condemn Jersey’s Children’s’ Care services nobody mentioned international obligations such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This was especially strange, not just because this was Holocaust Memorial Day and most of the politicians present were keen to finish the talking in order to attend the ceremony on the quay – but such international safeguards as the Convention on the Rights of the Child have featured so prominently in previous reports...not to mention strategies. Besides which, the letters HDLG may yet be concealing an even greater Jersey scandal concerning the welfare of children and those who should ensure it.
So we had another hour of talk and promises of action from Deputies Pryke, Martin and Constable Refault for the Health Department supported by their painfully complacent officers whilst Deputies Moore, Hilton and Reed asked predictable scrutiny questions.
Deputy Tadier sat in the public seats along with a couple of bloggers to witness the proceedings but no other elected States members were there and neither was the accredited press.
Probably a couple of hundred people turned out on the cold quay to remember the fallen of the Second World War and to catch a glimpse of special guest Michael Portillo.
Another 98,000 Jersey residents neither attended the scrutiny hearing nor bothered to pay their respects at the ceremony to the 50 millions who perished in the war.
Interviews with Deputies Moore and Tadier appear here.
Words and images from Michael Portillo and Chief Minister Gorst can be seen and heard HERE where pictures of wreaths and flowers must speak for the rest.
Advent Journey’s End
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My final advent poem looks at the conclusion of a journey, an old story,
and yet a story re-enacted in part by all displaced peoples, whether...
Sonia Poulton Abandons Large Parts of Case
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I have seen a surprisingly upbeat post from Sonia Poulton about Sam Smith’s
appeal against her. In fact, like so much of what she says, she is
misleading h...
Jersey Holocaust Day 2020 - and Human Rights
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On 27 January 2020 the annual Jersey Holocaust Memorial remembered that
Auschwitz camp was "liberated" 75 years ago.
It is also 75 years ago that Jersey was...
Slow changes
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It has taken some time but I've finally regained access to the journal.
The start to the calendar year hasn't been great. The delivery man who
usuall...
Updates
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I've been away from blogs for a while, but have just seen that Big Trev is
back, and VFC is still going strong, so I thought I'd make the effort to
keep my...
All at Sea
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Fire crew and lifeboat crew are two vocations only suitable for genuine
heroes and heroines, and fully deserve immense respect from everybody.
However, the...
Just Ask The Damn Question
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THE BBC AND JIMMY SAVILE:
COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
Yes – Because it’s Happening Now.
“Everybody would say, ‘what evidence have you got?’ I would say, ‘w...
Don't Throw Your Vote Away On An Abuse Of Process
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I count the leading figures of Jersey's “Reform Jersey” political party
among my personal friends. I wish them to remain so, thus I shall take
pains to be...
Disgusted by Police Cruel Dog Killing
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How would you react had it been your beloved pet that they had so callously
run down & murdered? Just what sort of example is this to give to our
children ...
Latest: Jersey Care Inquiry
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The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry is charged with finding out what went
wrong in t...
The Warren Brothers - a Family Legend
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Season 1912-13 was a great one for Glasgow Academicals, crowned Scottish
champions with 17 wins from their 19 championship matches. Two Warren
brothers...
Struggling With Depression
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By Debbie Leads 8/10/03
Days of endless struggle
More hopeful pills today
Trying to appear ‘normal’
In some sort of way.
It seems that the struggle
Is alwa...
Letter to St Helier ratepayers
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Dear Ratepayer
The annual sending out of Rates Assessment notices, which are not a request
for payment but notification of how your rates bill will be calcu...
Nearly 5 years later.....
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Still the case is ongoing..... An offer has been made by the defendants
which has been 'on the table' for quite some period of time for the sum of
£1500. H...
On the election trail...
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The rosettes are finally being worn! Bought four years ago in anticipation
of my first election campaign, Elaine and I are wearing our rosettes and
tak...
"My Apologies To readers"
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*Sorry for not posting in some time but there are legal reasons for this,
nothing bad I might add.*
*I will be resuming posting shortly.*
*Thank you for y...
Coffee - Good or Bad - The age old debate!
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So the other day I was working with a friend in the University Library when
we were disrupted by an irate Librarian as she punished someone for
drinking co...
Hell Bent...and Hell Deserving
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Those who are not privileged to call themselves Old Victorians can only
imagine the pride and sense of entitlement that is imparted on donning the
blazer o...
The End
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*Three times unlucky.* That is what they said in the trenches during *World
War I*. If you were a soldier taking cover in a trench and lit one
cigarett...
Blame Democracy
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The march towards a lean, mean state with a lean, mean leader goes on. My
latest scheme is to get the public to take the blame for my next round of
service...
