17 « April « 2009 « « This Is Jersey

Lentils and hard graft to help Zimbabwe’s slum dwellers

A GROUP of young people from St Andrew’s Church Youth Group swapped their pyjamas and iPods for lentils and hard graft last weekend to experience what life is like for the billion people around the world living in slums.

Incinerator millions: Hearing on Monday

THE senior civil servants under fire over the £3m incinerator blunder face questions at a public hearing on Monday.

Logic, please, not hysteria: Actions of the police weren’t unreasonable

From Jeff Le Caudey. RECENTLY there has been much comment in your letters pages and on the local radio phone-in with regard to the swearing at and the arresting of Senator Syvret. Much comment, but perhaps not always logical thought.

In memory of a team-mate

MORE than 100 spectators went along to support the Jayson Lee Memorial charity football match at Springfield Stadium last night.

Advertising shopping in Jersey is the job of shops, not Tourism

From David Riddington. WAS that Terry Wogan’s voice I heard on an advertisement extolling the wonders of shopping in Jersey?

States’ debate leaks: No action

AN inquiry into how details of a secret States debate were published in the Jersey Evening Post and on Senator Stuart Syvret’s internet blog has recommended that no action should be taken.

France’s best ride in

SURFERS from Jersey will go head to head with some of France’s best this weekend for the first time at home in over 20 years.

Jersey lose in last over

JERSEY’S cricketers had a good start to their season yesterday despite losing to Hertfordshire – and having their new captain taken to hospital.

JCRA ‘saves consumers £2m a year’

THE Island’s competition regulator has saved consumers at least £12.5 million as a result of actions taken to discourage anti-competitive practices.