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NEARLY 20 Islanders will lose their jobs today when a chain of bakeries switches off its ovens for the final time.

SO, the festive lights are on, the tinsel is out, the shops in town are open on Sundays and we’ve survived ‘cyber Sunday’ and ‘mega Monday’, when the internet reputedly goes into overdrive from Christmas ordering.

TREASURY Minister Philip Ozouf’s Budget proposals recommending major increases in tobacco, alcohol and fuel duty were clearly never intended to win friends and influence people among the general public.

From Keith Harris. A RECENT reader’s letter, headed ‘This will spoil Havre des Pas’, amused me somewhat when I read it in the JEP the other night.

A SMALL IT firm has made it big and partnered up with Jersey’s largest telecoms company.

STATES departments will face unprecedented scrutiny on spending as the task of closing a looming deficit begins, Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf warned yesterday in his debut Budget speech.

JERSEY’S bid team for the 2015 Island Games have today announced which sports they will be offering to host.

THE number of people coming to the Island to abuse the health system, at a high cost to taxpayers, is believed to be increasing, the Assistant Health Minister said yesterday.

From Roy Travert. IT was with great concern that I read the JEP of 12 December with regards the massive pension debts that Jersey now faces.

From Tony Nightingale, Colomberie Traders Association. ON behalf of traders in Colomberie, I write to show our astonishment that yet again traders from outside the Island are invited to set up and sell their wares in a peak period, and in a prime location at the Weighbridge, with free advertising promoting their arrival, trading dates [...]