Deputies to face Royal Court

DEPUTIES Geoff Southern and Shona Pitman will be sentenced by the Royal Court after pleading guilty to breaking the Public Elections Law.


Letter from China

In recent months, Jersey has been asked to consider separating itself from Great Britain and removing crown appointees from the States.


Jersey Finance lobbies OECD

JERSEY’S finance industry has been lobbying for recognition from some of the largest global economies.


Jersey primed for big match

THIRD-placed Jersey play second-placed Barnes RFC at St Peter tomorrow in a game which will define how far they’ve progressed this season.


Too far down the road

LIKE it or not, it now seems evident that the Island must press ahead with the plan for the new energy-from-waste plant – otherwise known as an incinerator – to be sited at La Collette.


Keep drugs out!

POLICE have warned drug smugglers not to target Jersey after a dealer who tried to flood the Island with £135,000 worth of heroin and cocaine was jailed for eight years.


£240m blunder

From David Rotherham. WE shall never achieve a world in which mistakes never happen, so we must try to put right those that we make. Thus I am glad to see Deputy Wimberley bringing a proposition that the States undo their blunder with the La Collette incinerator.


Lord Coe to be guest at Enterprise Awards

THE seventh Jersey Enterprise Awards will take place at Fort Regent next Thursday evening.


Sea change in the band

THE Band of the Island of Jersey have elected a new president. Retired Prison Service worker and Sea Cadet officer Trevor Rayson was elected unopposed at the band’s annual general meeting.


Pay freeze at Kleinwort Benson

STAFF at Kleinwort Benson in Jersey and Guernsey have been told not to expect bonuses or salary rises this year.

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.