RICO SORDA: END OF YEAR BLOG - PART 2 THE JERSEY CHILD ABUSE S...

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voiceforchildren: Opinion Management

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)

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: BBC Jersey Impartial, Balanced, Honest?

voiceforchildren: BBC Jersey Impartial, Balanced, Honest?: Just what is BBC Jersey's role in island news gathering and imparting that news to its listeners and viewers, fairly, objectively, honestly ...

voiceforchildren: Jimmy Savile, Jersey, BBC and suspects (Part two)

voiceforchildren: Jimmy Savile, Jersey, BBC and suspects (Part two): In part two of our exclusive and in-depth interview with former Senior Investigating Officer of the Jersey Child Abuse Investigation Len...

voiceforchildren: The Skull, The Evidence and the media.

voiceforchildren: The Skull, The Evidence and the media.: With the role of the media and its relationship with governments being in the spotlight thanks to the News of the World scandal. We once mor...

voiceforchildren: Opinion Management

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

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: The needless and avoidable suffering of Family “X”...

voiceforchildren: The needless and avoidable suffering of Family “X”...: The Press Release below from Hanson and Renouf  is self explanatory. As regular readers will be aware the case of family “X” brought abo...

voiceforchildren: No-Body-Remains

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: Another "kick in the teeth" for Abuse Survivors.

voiceforchildren: Another "kick in the teeth" for Abuse Survivors.: In continuation of our previous  Blog we follow up with a letter of complaint to the Royal Television Society from the Jersey Care Leavers ...

voiceforchildren: #FreeJersey: Please Help Us Restore Democracy To O...

voiceforchildren: #FreeJersey: Please Help Us Restore Democracy To O...: Today is not a day to focus on right-wing versus left-wing politics, but the difference between rig...

voiceforchildren: Opinion Management

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: Operation Rectangle.........Case closed?

voiceforchildren: Operation Rectangle.........Case closed?: After David Warcup, the out-going Acting Chief of Police, issued a Press Release announcing the closure of “Operation Rectangle” (Haute de...

voiceforchildren: Lenny Harper interview Part 3 (of ?)

voiceforchildren: Lenny Harper interview Part 3 (of ?):  In Part three of this in-depth and exclusive interview with former Deputy Chief Police Officer Lenny Harper we discuss his alleged "vendett...

voiceforchildren: BBC Jersey Impartial, Balanced, Honest?

voiceforchildren: BBC Jersey Impartial, Balanced, Honest?: Just what is BBC Jersey's role in island news gathering and imparting that news to its listeners and viewers, fairly, objectively, honestly ...

RICO SORDA: COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY 3

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

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This is a posting on one of the most definitive documents concerning the Jersey Child Abuse Cover-up

voiceforchildren: What Have(n't) They Been Reporting?

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voiceforchildren: Exclusive Footage of "Eddie" Cadaver Dog at HDLG.

voiceforchildren: Exclusive Footage of "Eddie" Cadaver Dog at HDLG.: Once more VFC is able to bring its readers/viewers another, what we are told is, a world exclusive. With the assistance of Former Senior I...

voiceforchildren: BBC, Guns, Constables and Lenny Harper.

voiceforchildren: BBC, Guns, Constables and Lenny Harper.: Just recently BBC Jersey and the rest of Jersey's State Media have been on a campaign, it would appear, to ensure the police force get the...

voiceforchildren: Congratulations CTV, but what about ALL the “facts...

voiceforchildren: Congratulations CTV, but what about ALL the “facts...: Channel Television have just won a regional programme of the year award for, by the looks of it, copying and pasting parts of a Report carri...

voiceforchildren: Publish The Defence Case.

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: BBC Jersey Impartial, Balanced, Honest?

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RICO SORDA: THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE "IN CAMERA" DEBATE

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voiceforchildren: "Deep" questions remain.

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voiceforchildren: Cowardly, Underhanded and Dishonest.

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voiceforchildren: Abracadabra.

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voiceforchildren: Congratulations CTV, but what about ALL the “facts...

voiceforchildren: Congratulations CTV, but what about ALL the “facts...: Channel Television have just won a regional programme of the year award for, by the looks of it, copying and pasting parts of a Report carri...

voiceforchildren: Rico Sorda part 1 (of 2).

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voiceforchildren: What Have(n't) They Been Reporting?

voiceforchildren: What Have(n't) They Been Reporting?: In conjunction with Rico Sorda's latest posting on VFP we thought it might be helpful to publish just a few short video clips that will giv...

voiceforchildren: BBC, Guns, Constables and Lenny Harper.

voiceforchildren: BBC, Guns, Constables and Lenny Harper.: Just recently BBC Jersey and the rest of Jersey's State Media have been on a campaign, it would appear, to ensure the police force get the...

voiceforchildren: Operation Rectangle.........Case closed?

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voiceforchildren: Jersey A "Well Regulated" Off-Shore Finance Centre...

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voiceforchildren: Opinion Management

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voiceforchildren: Summary of Evidence

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voiceforchildren: Interview with Graham Power QPM.

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How many people in Jersey can spell Auschwitz or Holocaust?

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.

Submitted by Tom Gruchy.