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BUSINESS leaders have warned that they will not support any tax rises unless the Treasury shows it is exploring every opportunity to reduce the budget deficit.

From Matthew McNulty. THERE is enough money in the Rainy Day Fund to give the public sector workers a cost of living wage rise.

JERSEY’s Under-14 football team were beaten 3-2 by Clube Desportivo Nacional last night in their opening fixture in a four-team tournament in Madeira.

THE Business Party has been having a bit of a laugh this week.

A JERSEYMAN will become chairman of the Island’s competition regulatory body for the first time, if the States agree.

FORMER police officer Colin Belsey may have pounded out a fair few miles during the course of his professional life, but the gruelling challenge which the recently retired sergeant in the Jersey force has now set himself is way beyond the demands of a watchful beat through the streets of St Helier.

THE multi-million pound plan to develop a new financial centre on the Waterfront could be back on.

A WOMAN broke down in the Royal Court yesterday as she described how years of sexual abuse as a child had affected her life ‘massively’.

From Alistair Mitchell. IF the JEP wishes to portray itself as a credible face in the world of journalism then perhaps it should ensure that its contributors do their homework and offer readers some authoritative comment.

From C Gavey I AM writing in support of the letter by J Bartlett (JEP, 6 April) which summarised some of the issues faced by the De Mond Gymnastics Academy, who currently operate from Le Rocquier School. They are indeed a hard-working group of young people.