18 « November « 2008 « « This Is Jersey

£200m loss for pension fund?

THE stock market crash may have wiped more than £200m off the value of the States employee pension fund.

Hotel wins top awards for service

A JERSEY hotel is celebrating double success after being recognised for outstanding service and employment practice.

Thanks a million

JERSEY’S overseas aid money has helped to save the sight of almost a million Bangladeshis.

Ex-manager wants full public inquiry into remand home

SACKED social worker Simon Bellwood is calling for a full public inquiry into the alleged ‘unlawful’ and ‘abusive’ mistreatment of former residents at Greenfields secure remand home for children.

Bears a necessity

THE popular annual winter teddy concerts – ‘for all families young at heart,’ – were held at St Helier Methodist Centre at the weekend .

Hustings: New developments under fire in St Brelade

THE Planning department came under heavy fire last night at the Deputy hustings in St Brelade No 1, with parishioners and candidates alike attacking recent developments in the parish.

Hustings: St Lawrence candidates end on a dancing theme

TOPICS including Haut de la Garenne and the prospect of a third supermarket in the Island were at the forefront of parishioners’ minds at the Deputies’ hustings in St Lawrence last night.