New blow to tomato industry

A JERSEY company which markets Island tomatoes in the UK is to stop trading when the current crop comes to an end.


A Week in Politics

GO about your business, citizens, I’ve got this one. I know it’s dangerous, but there comes a time when a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.


Intervention was not fare comment

CAB and taxi . . . Has there been anything over the years about which the use of a three-letter word instead of a four-letter word has caused more rows, letters to the editor of this newspaper, headaches for what used to be called the Motor Traffic Office and total confusion for the majority of [...]


Fears over Air Display future

THIS year’s Jersey International Air Display could be the last, if funding is not found.


HD: The last straw

WHEN HD Ferries arrived on the Channel Islands scene, the alternative service they offered was hailed as a progressive move in the sphere of travel between Jersey and France.


There is no need to ‘take to the streets’

From Jeff Le Caudey. I WAS surprised that Esther Rantzen seemed to think that justice is not available in Jersey and that no effort will be made to arrest the perpetrators of any abuse unless there is a massive petition – also that we all need to ‘take to the streets’ before the abused can [...]


Smith’s World hat-trick

JERSEY’S Roy Smith has become the class 3C world offshore champion for the third time after a stunning comeback.


A redress board is the way forward for Jersey

Name and address withheld. I WRITE regarding the article by Elaine Byrne (JEP, 2 September) in which she gives Hermann Kelly, author of ‘Kathy’s Real Story’, the opportunity to decry the Irish Redress Board as a cashpoint machine spewing out money to ‘virtually anyone who keys in a claim’.


Global equities ‘failing to come up to expectations’

THE performance of global equities has been disappointing considering that the US dollar has turned and the price of oil has dropped, says Peter Lucas, global investment strategist of active fund managers at Ashburton.


HIV test plan to go ahead at Hospital this year

ANONYMOUS HIV testing is to be introduced in Jersey by the end of the year.

BIRD WATCH 2012

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The 11th Great Garden Bird Watch took place over the weekend, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February. JEP readers were asked to get on board to help monitor bird life in the Island.