MORE than 100 Island cows have been impregnated with non-pure Jersey bull semen after a mistake by an American breeding company.
Gotland reveal bid
THE race to host the Island Games in 2015 has stepped up a gear as both Jersey and rivals Gotland have released their bid documents.
Who will save our thrift clubs?
THE days of the traditional pub thrift club could be over.
On the road to recovery
SOMEWHAT bafflingly, Jersey’s roads are a disgrace. Decades of neglect and confusion have created a legacy of scruffy, bumpy, patched-up surfaces festooned with tatty bollards and worn-out markings and lined with damaged banks and deteriorating roadside walls.
States: When the cat’s away …
From Terry Connor. THOUGH the timing was ill judged, no one could deny Senator Terry Le Sueur the right (or need) to seek absolution, and as our tourism industry is in decline and visits to the Island by the Almighty are therefore presumably becoming fewer, he felt obliged to travel to ‘God’s own country’ to [...]
Tighter rules for offshore tax status
IT will be more difficult for UK residents to move offshore to avoid the new 50 per cent tax rate, as a result of a ruling made by the Court of Appeal in London this week.
Laws that lock you out
FEW things make immigrant blood boil quite like Jersey’s housing laws.
What’s in store now that the UK sees any kind of blatant tax planning as unacceptable?
It’s not only banking secrecy that’s dead. Tax avoidance – the industry that helped Jersey become so prosperous – now appears to be on its last legs as well.
More homeless as recession hits
THE true extent of Jersey’s homelessness problem has been revealed by a special JEP report.
Architects, Planning – everyone take a bow!
From M Hillyear. I WRITE regarding the new office building recently constructed on the corner of Colomberie and Little Green Street which I believe is to be occupied by the Mourant law practice.
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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.