More medals – and footballers through

Jersey’s footballers are through to the NatWest Island Games men’s final following a 2-0 win over Guernsey in Aland this evening.


AIB: ‘No job cuts in Jersey’

THE ‘Celtic Tiger’ is going through an unprecedented decline – and recovery is likely to be slow, specialists on the Irish economy said yesterday at a seminar in Jersey.


We must find funds for sewers

IT is no secret that States departmental budgets are being scrutinised with particular care in these difficult economic conditions.


Let nature take its course

From June Beslièvre. I AM totally lost at the contradictions coming from Dr Rosemary Geller, Medical Officer of Health, regarding swine flu precautions and the pyramid effect that takes place when one person is diagnosed.


Tough new line on youth crime

TOUGHER sentences could be handed down to teenage hooligans under new laws, the Home Affairs Minister has warned.


A wheelie good idea – or just a waste of time

AS Middle England rises up yet again – this time to rid the nation’s streets of the scourge of wheelie bins – I made a startling discovery last week.


‘We must fight this gross interference’

MOVES in Westminster to make Islanders show passports when entering the UK would be a ‘very gross interference with one Jersey long-standing constitutional privileges’, the newly-retired Bailiff has warned.


Food for Thought: Good nutrition will improve a child’s learning ability

From Kim Hanson and Lyndsey Evans. WE would like to say that your article of 25 June regarding the Food for Thought campaign only touched on the message we were trying to deliver.


‘Large number of people’ could put money where mouth is

From Harry Read. ONCE again we are being encouraged to believe that it is a good idea that the States purchase Plémont headland off Mr Hemmings at a potential cost of £5 million.


One reason for campaign to protect our coastline

AN environmentalist has said that the size of an approved property in St Martin is ‘immense’ and will have a negative visual impact on the coastline.

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.