COVID press briefing 5th June 2020

I made the following statement at the press briefing on 5th June. We are now a week into Phase 4, we’ve had no new positive cases.  It’s therefore understandable that some of you may be asking why we just don’t move to phase 5 now.  In responding to that I…

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Energy strategy

I made the following speech during the debate on the Energy strategy at the June States Meeting. The States was meeting remotely at this time. Sir,  I thought I would begin by picking up on comments made by Deputy Lester Queripel just now and Deputy De Lisle in the previous…

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COVID press briefing 29th May 2020 – Phase 4 details

This is the statement I made at the press briefing on 29th May, setting out details of Phase 4. Determining what Phase 4 meant was quite difficult. Considerations over how we dealt with household bubbles, which businesses could open fully or with conditions, and at the same time trying to…

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COVID press briefing 14th May 2020 – Phase 3

I made the following statement at the press briefing on 14th May. Things were going well and we could announce that we would be able to move to Phase 3. As Dr Brink has advised, thanks to the amazing efforts by the whole community, we are in a far better…

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COVID press briefing 4th May 2020

I made the following statement at the press briefing on 4th May. Firstly I would like to thank in behalf of HSC all those who have helped to put together our Framework for Exiting Lockdown that we are publishing today. There are 4 strategic aims of this framework, namely Mitigating…

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COVID press briefing 1st May 2020

I made the following statement at the press briefing on 1st May. I said on Tuesday that we would be publishing our Exit Strategy next week. HSC met yesterday to agree the overarching framework that maps out what the future journey will look like. The intention is that this will…

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COVID press briefing 22nd April 2020 – Phase 2

I made the following statement at the press briefing on 22nd April. As Nikki made clear on Monday, we are currently in a good place, the curve has been squashed and that means we are ready to begin our exit strategy. Our approach to that exit strategy is 3 fold…

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President’s Statement 22nd April 2020

Amidst the public health emergency, life still goes on and it was turn to make a general update statement to the States’ Assembly on 22nd April. This is what I said. Sir, Before making this statement I thought I’d look back at what I said in my last one back…

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