C&E decides to ditch plans to look at Sunday trading
SUNDAY trading will not be back on the political agenda in the next few years, the new Commerce and Employment Department has decided - because members fear that they cannot get it right.
SUNDAY trading will not be back on the political agenda in the next few years, the new Commerce and Employment Department has decided - because members fear that they cannot get it right.
The new department, under minister Deputy Kevin Stewart, pictured, has reversed the previous board's decision to consult on a wider relaxation of Sunday trading laws.
It said that 'this was an issue which would always divide the community and that would never be resolved to please a majority'.
Last May a local survey from Island Analysis revealed that 63% of islanders were in favour of relaxing Sunday trading further.
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