THE introduction of junior sessions is just the start of the Jersey Water Polo Association’s plans to develop the sport in the Island.
Welsh appeals for public to support cup bid
MANAGER Jon Welsh is calling for the public to come out and support the Dandara Jersey Football Combination Select team for their FA Carlsberg National League System Cup quarter-final at Springfield Stadium on Saturday.
Twenty-nine child victims of sex offences in 2009
A TOTAL of 29 sex offences against children were reported to the States police last year, figures obtained by the NSPCC have revealed.
Has the public been misled?
From Clifford Wilson. BACK in 2008 certain of our States Members were, in my view, seen to be running around like the proverbial headless chickens, in unseemly haste, entreating their fellow States Members to ‘sign up before it is too late’ to the tender and contract offered by the favoured supplier of a new incinerator [...]
Nerina to headline Haiti benefit
NERINA Pallot has agreed to lead a host of local talent at a special all-day festival of music to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
AG given Hospital report before its release
THE independent report into potential management failings at the Hospital following the death of a patient has been passed to the Attorney General’s office before it is formally released, the JEP can reveal.
Primary schools’ football tournament
DOZENS of primary school children showed off their skills during a five-a-side football competition at Fort Regent on Saturday.
It’s a poor idea to spend a lot of money on poverty
AS The Reader may recall, over the last few months I’ve been kept entertained in my quieter moment by looking at the online comments made about news stories and the like – comments which, I have to say, are often more entertaining than Letters to the Editor.
‘It could not have gone any better’
THE visit of two International Island Games Association executive committee members to Jersey ‘could not have gone any better’.
Where was the proactive leadership?
From Barrie Bertram. I READ the occasional references to an independent Jersey with great interest, and none more so than ‘Goodbye to all that’ (JEP, 21 January), a title not to be confused with Robert Graves’ book of the same name.