Bowlers take heart despite points defeat

DESPITE winning more than half their matches, Jersey’s bowlers lost out to Guernsey in the inter-insular last weekend.


Targets revised to keep population under 100,000

JERSEY will attempt to keep its population below 100,000 after ministers revised immigration targets following strong opposition from Islanders.


Primary Schools’ Football Festival

THE 35th Jersey Primary Schools’ Football Festival taking place at FB Fields all this week is hotting up – and not just due to the warm weather.


Wanted: A police presence

From Steve Cole. IT was ironic that tonight I read in the JEP of the arrest of a senior Jersey politician and, according to your front-page article, the arrest was carried out using eight police officers in four cars.


Highlands reacts to effects of recession

MANAGEMENT training courses at Highlands College are being adapted to meet the demands of the recession.


A caring doctor’s good work

From Debbie Lankester. I READ today on the JEP website of the suspension of Dr Ian Shenkin. I lived in Jersey in the 80s and gave birth to two babies there.


Britton rules the baize with Island title No 4

GARY Britton won his fourth Island snooker title last Friday when he beat Channel Islands champion Aaron Canavan 4-3.


Syvret: It wasn’t me, says AG

ATTORNEY General William Bailhache has denied that he instigated the arrest of Senator Stuart Syvret on suspicion of breaching data protection laws.


Hazardous waste pollution denied

SENIOR officers at the Environment department have rejected claims that hazardous waste is seeping into the sea from the incinerator pit at La Collette.


These miserable States Members

From René Liron. I WONDER how the eight Members of the States are feeling after they broke their pledges to the people who voted for them at the elections for the exemption of GST on food, children’s clothing and fuel.