Lucky day for Nadia

FRIDAY the 13th will go down as one of the luckiest days in Nadia Reid’s memory.


Bank deposits grow by £9bn

JERSEY’S bank deposits grew by £9 billion in the three months to December, despite the global downturn.


Forward moves on recycling

ENVIRONMENTAL evangelists some-times make the mistake of suggesting that all recycling is automatically a good thing.


Extradition hearing date

A JERSEY accountant arrested in connection with an alleged multi-million tax fraud in Australia will face an extradition hearing next month.


Don’t panic – plan. With courage we’ll stay immune

It was while I was enjoying a quiet pint that it suddenly dawned on me that the whole Island was going mad. Like everything else I blamed it on the recession.


Bid for semi-final place

JERSEY’S men’s hockey first XI will travel to face Didsbury in their bid to reach a National Trophy semi-final next month.


Fort back on agenda

PLANS to reinvent Fort Regent as a conference and leisure centre may be revisited.


Matches made in heaven?

Over the course of 2009 the Jersey Archive will be opening its doors on Saturday mornings for a series of talks showing the different ways in which Islanders can discover their roots.


Not coping, but sinking

From Peter Double. WITH reference to your headline of 9 February, ‘Population: We could cope with 100,000’, the Chief Minister admits that a 100,000 population is not currently sustainable.


Depositor protection scheme ‘could be a burden on firms’

ANY depositor protection scheme would be ‘a drop in the ocean’ compared to the level of deposits made through financial institutions in Jersey, says Geoff Cook, the chief executive of Jersey Finance.

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.