National campaign for Island

JERSEY badminton stars Elizabeth Cann and Mariana Agathangelou hope to dominate this weekend’s English National Championships in Manchester.


Ask the expert: What should I do if lots of customers owe money and I am being chased myself?

Question to Gillian Robinson, partner at Appleby: What should I do if lots of my customers owe me money and I am being chased myself? Is there any way of protecting myself legally in Jersey?


The recent hospital beds crisis could easily have been averted

From Peter French. I WAS interested and saddened to read of the crisis at the General Hospital – in particular the serious shortage of beds, resulting in a request to GPs to treat people at home where possible, and more worryingly patients being discharged prematurely in a bid to free up beds, only to be [...]


Finance is key to our prosperity

JERSEY Finance’s chief executive, Geoff Cook, recently made an important point concerning the Jersey economy.


Sorry Beryl, but I prefer to put the accent on variety

NOVELIST Beryl Bainbridge ignited a heated debate last week when she called for the eradication of ‘uneducated’ regional accents and compulsory elocution lessons for all children.


Air routes get £0.9m of 2009 cash

ECONOMIC Development have set aside nearly £900,000 of their budget for ‘route development’.


We will weather the storm

JERSEY has a ‘sound and stable economy’ and can face international scrutiny of its finance industry with confidence, the Island’s new Chief Minister told business leaders yesterday.


Clean up your act – or lose your holidaymakers

From Laurence Howard. IF Jersey is to join the dogfight for tourists in 2009 (and that’s what it’s going to be – an almighty dogfight), Tourism will have to persuade the powers that be to clean up the awful mess in your capital town along the Waterfront. At the moment it all looks like Gaza.


Flybe on a high with US award

FLYBE, the airline founded in the Island and originally named Jersey European, has been awarded the title Regional Airline of the Year for 2009.


Multi-million-pound rescue plan for the building trade revealed

DETAILS of a multi-million-pound rescue package to keep Island builders in work during the economic slowdown have been revealed.

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.