03 « June « 2010 « « This Is Jersey

All names here have to be approved, so if you wanted a boy named Sue, forget it

HOLD the front page! ‘Jesus hit by a car in Massachusetts’. Well, that was the headline in the local paper, anyway, after a man was knocked down on a pedestrian crossing in a place called, would you believe, Belcher. And police checks confirmed that the poor chap’s name was indeed just that, only with bells [...]

Driver quits as Island skipper

JERSEY cricket star Ryan Driver has stepped down as captain of the Island side.

Voluntary work ‘helps jobless’

UNEMPLOYED Islanders should try to find voluntary work to help them brush up their skills, according to recruitment consultancy Kendrick Rose.

Axe falls on public spending

UP to 67 jobs will be axed, overtime will be slashed and charges will be made for some previously free services in the first round of the biggest States cuts in generations.

Get volunteering for the honorary police

Centenier Hugh Gill, Chef de Police. THIS is National Volunteering Week.

Spending cuts begin at last

THE States are poised to grasp the nettle of spending cuts, bear the inevitable pain – which, of course, will also be borne by the people they serve – and at long last keep the promise that significant public sector cuts are to be made for the longer term benefit of the economy.

Around the lanes of Trinity

Today we visit Trinity, literally the high spot of our rides around Jersey.

Our real problem in Jersey may not be the size of our deficit, but our reaction to it

YOU have to admire the optimism of the chairman of the Tourism Development Fund.

Senator’s insult a breach of conduct

SENATOR Jim Perchard broke the States Members’ code of conduct by insulting a blogger who called into a radio programme, an inquiry has concluded.

New boys lift first title

AXLE will represent Jersey in the Upton after defeating Warriors 77-57 in basketball’s best-of-three games play-off series final.