£60m plan for health reforms

THE biggest shake-up of the Island’s healthcare system in a generation is due to be unveiled in the New Year and could cost as much as £60 million.


Marine energy ‘usable in 15 years’

JERSEY is 15 years away from harnessing marine energy, according to retired Jersey Electricity Company managing director Mike Liston.


Defence lawyer to argue that fair trial is impossible

DEFENCE counsel for one of the two men so far charged in the historical child abuse inquiry will claim that he cannot receive a fair trial because of media publicity about Haut de la Garenne, the Royal Court was told yesterday.


Monday start for inquiry into Esplanade Quarter

JERSEY’S public inquiry into the £350 million Esplanade Quarter on the Waterfront starts on Monday.


Deputy on WEB ‘the soft option’

MINISTERS face a fight over a nomination to the Waterfront Enterprise Board after a candidate was apparently ruled out because he had criticised the board in the States.


Jersey braces itself for global crisis fallout

JERSEY will be caught in the crossfire of a renewed global attack on offshore tax havens.


Walker counters Liberals’ attack

CHIEF Minister Frank Walker has written to the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable MP, to challenge his criticism of Jersey’s financial services regulation.


A huge step for Jersey tennis

JERSEY is gearing up for the biggest tennis tournament in its history.


Weighty business for Barrett

RYAN BARRETT, the Londoner hoping to wrest the English super featherweight title from Bradford’s Femi Fehintola in Jersey on Saturday night, is convinced his time has come.


The Kinnard conundrum

THE sudden resignation this week of Home Affairs Minister Wendy Kinnard asks far more questions than it actually answers.

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.