FLOAT builders across the Island are in panic mode after 100,000 flowers worth nearly £7,000 arrived in the Island rotten this weekend.
This Is Jersey
Daily Archives: August 11, 2008
Jewish community’s distress at ‘Nazi’ jibe
From Stephen Regal.
I AM writing to you in my capacity as president of the Jersey Jewish Congregation and particularly in respect of the article in the JEP headed ‘Senator sparks Nazi e-mail row’.
Keeping an eye on the bigger picture
HOW about this for joined-up thinking? We had a swimming pool at Fort Regent, publicly owned and well used.
Retail report: Sandpiper link?
THE company behind a £50,000 review recommending no new supermarkets is working for the biggest supermarket chain in the Channel Islands.
More memories in store from Le Rondin
AN old picture of Le Rondin Stores, St Mary, printed in April, prompted one of its former owners to get in touch with her own memories and photgraphs.
Common sense and bureaucracy
IT is clearly essential for Islanders to pay into social security coffers if, in the event of adversity, they want to claim benefits. That is the fundamental principle of insurance, even when it is a state-run compulsory scheme.
Jonathan Le Cocq
JERSEYMAN Jonathan Le Cocq emigrated to New Zealand six years ago and has recently been apppointed as Head of Centre for Music and Theatre at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
Battle people: Steve Bouchard
WITH more than 30 years of dedication to the Battle of Flowers, it is fair to say that Steve is one of the key people when it comes to helping make the parade the success that it is.
A week in politics
THERE’S wisdom in graffiti — not all of it, I’ll grant you.
What on earth is going on at Portelet?
From Karen McEwen.
AS a Jersey person born and bred but living in the UK, I consider my Island to be unique and one of the most beautiful places in the world, but recently my husband and I have become extremely dismayed at what is taking place with the new developments.