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THE financial crisis will get worse before it gets better, according to the vice-chairman of Credit Suisse Asset Management.

AH well. Another day – another Strategic Plan. There was a time when the States used to make do with the occasional report about the direction in which the Island was heading.

CLINTON Woods and Elvir Muriqi will come face to face for the first time at the official boxers’ weigh-in on Friday.

From Jane Hardwin. I WRITE in response to an article in the JEP on 4 February concerning the refusal of the States to pay air fares to hospitals outside the Island for (what they term as) wealthy residents for services that are not available locally.

WHEN Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur and the Council of Ministers executed a U-turn in the States over the issue of redundancy money for former Woolworths staff, it was a sign that the promised new era of greater responsiveness to the opinions of others might have arrived. Now a further sign comes in the shape [...]

PARKING prices could go up by 20p per hour or more to pay for the new car park at Ann Court.

A NEW firm specialising in office supplies is hoping the economic downturn will send more businesses their way.

From Gerard Baudains. I WAS amazed to read (JEP, 5 February) that our Airport authorities are requesting a property with SSI protection – given to the Island and existing long before aircraft were even invented (never mind our Airport being built) – should be demolished on the grounds of safety. This is outrageous, and I [...]

JERSEY Rugby Club’s Kern Yates has wasted no time in becoming an England Legend.

THE Council of Ministers have signalled for the first time that job cuts might be needed across the public sector.