Minister for International Development to speak at prestigious international finance event
Financial Inclusion and banking the world’s poorest is one of JOA’s three sustainable development themes. My speech made at the virtual Toronto Centre’s Conference in October 2021 encapsulates why financial inclusion is important to the developing world:
This week,
Visit to Geneva October 2021 to meet representatives of International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) to discuss our Financial Inclusion projects and also to meet Filippo Grandi, the head of UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) discussing refugee support. We also managed to secure two places this year for Jersey
A presentation and consultation roadshow at St John’s Parish Hall during the summer of 2021, where we left our brochures and received feedback as part of the process. (It was about 30 degrees on this particular evening!)
The Island Identity project commissioned the Jersey Policy Forum to run a conference that sought out the views and next steps. Opened by the Bailiff, Timothy Le Cocq, the dialogue event had two external speakers and 120 people drawn from a diversity of sectors and communities in Jersey engaging in
As Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Jersey Branch, I was pleased to welcome the new Secretary-General Stephen Twigg to our branch, which was the first branch he visited after being appointed.
As Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Jersey Branch, I was pleased to welcome the new Secretary-General Stephen Twigg to our branch, which was the first branch he visited after being appointed.
Carolyn chaired the last CPA Crown Dependency Network event which Jersey hosted in the States Chamber and welcomed Guernsey
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women “CEDAW”
Ensuring women have equal opportunity in Jersey is an issue I have been pursuing for many years.
It was therefore a milestone moment for me – as well as Jersey – when in 2021 I was able to participate
A new policy for dealing with encroachments on the Foreshore has finally been agreed by States Members, nearly four years after Express first revealed that the Government was pursuing sea wall property owners for payments.
The Foreshore is the boundary defined as lying between high tide and low tide. It
I frequently work with the Island’s Deaf Community. Their needs and requirements are often over-looked and I would like to think I am their ‘go-to person’ in the States Assembly who will try to get their needs recognised and considered. They don’t only require a person fully conversant in their
