G8, UK Select Committee and much much more - can we the electorate participate please?

As usual the general public are being kept in the dark....so I emailed this simple request to all 51 of our elected States' Members today....

18 June 2013

Dear States Member

In view of the continuing international publicity about “Finance Centres”, the proceedings of the G8 conference, the meeting of Chief Minister Gorst with the Prime Minister and the forthcoming visit by the UK Select Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Alan Beith M.P. besides many other matters of concern,

I write to request that the Council of Ministers be required to call a public meeting or meetings, so that the electorate of Jersey can be better informed about the discussions and negotiations that have already taken place and to discuss what is proposed for the future.

Also, that the general public might be better informed about the task of the UK Select Committee and that the membership might be encouraged to meet with the electorate of Jersey in a public forum to explain the purposes of the Select Committee directly, and to engage in discussions with and receive oral and written submissions from the people of Jersey both privately and in public.

Michael Dun

CC to all elected Jersey States’ Members.

Plemont, Puffins, Planning Policies, Public Participation and Paul Harding's views...

In a few hours time  there is a public meeting called by Jersey's Chief Minister at the Town Hall - 7.30pm Wednesday 5 December - in case you are not already aware of it.
The purpose is to discuss the proposal that Jersey's taxpayers should purchase the Plemont Bay Holiday Village site and return it to nature etc.

Paul Harding the Architect is interviewed here in a two part video explaining his participation over the past fourteen years in preparing many schemes for this site and recently obtaining Planning Permission for its partial redevelopment for the current owners.

Paul has asked to be able to address this evening's meeting but has been refused  permission so to do -although he will be present - and presumably as a member of the public might be allowed to say something.

We shall see.

Hopefully somebody else might be allowed to video record some of the discussions this evening - unfortunately yours truly has a prior appointment.