IT is always a bit surprising just how quickly things can go wrong and the certainties of life begin to unravel.
This Is Jersey
Daily Archives: October 11, 2008
Run-rate resolution legation
JERSEY look to have lost their hard-earned place in World Cricket League Division IV, though it could hardly have been tighter.
Euro talks to protect finance
THE governments of major European banking centres are to be asked if they will extend any savings guarantees to Jersey in order to protect the offshore finance industry on which the Island’s economy depends.
Cycling the Tour de Rance
SIX Islanders took part in a four-day cycle through France to raise over £800 for African schoolchildren.
Lie detectors for politicians
From Mark Dawson.
THE recent debate about the proposed use of lie detectors for sex offenders in the UK has led me to wonder how lie detectors could be usefully deployed in Jersey, and I have formulated a plan which I think would prove very popular with the electorate.
Has our election fever gone cold?
PERHAPS being out of the Island for the past two weeks has not been the best way to get a full dose of election fever but, all the same, people do not seem exactly gripped by proceedings.
Britain’s ugliest
IT’S official – the Radisson SAS Waterfront Hotel is the ugliest building in the British Isles.
Clubs are facing crisis, but a new gym’ll fix it
SOME of the Island’s top gymnasts are at risk of letting standards slip unless a dedicated training facility can be found.
‘Sackings’ not down to us
From Stewart Purvis, partner, Content and Standards, ofcom.
PETER Rhodes is plainly wrong (JEP, 3 October) when he claims that Ofcom has allowed ITV to ‘sack’ 40 per cent of its local journalists.
Protection for all
From Alan Anderson.
WHILE the States have in principle agreed to protect Islanders in the event of a local bank failure, there is a lacuna which cries out for attention.