thisisjersey.com

EARLIER this year it seemed that this Island was heading for a spring and summer of discontent. Public sector pay groups were up in arms over frozen remuneration, disputed terms and conditions and the alleged unwillingness of government to engage in negotiations.

TWO young pilots from Jersey are flying 3,500 miles across Europe in a single-engined plane.

IN less than two weeks time Jersey will find out if they have won the race to host the 2015 Island Games.

THE annual report of the Jersey Financial Services Commission looks back on 2009 as a year in which the Island’s reputation as a sound, reliable and well-regulated offshore jurisdiction was reinforced.

IN our eagerness to follow the UK into austerity, the spectre of what has been described as ‘deficit fetishism’ looms ever larger in the Island. Yet nobody seems to care.

PASSENGERS onboard a Condor ferry which caught fire in the English Channel were finally allowed to disembark last night – more than 24 hours after their nightmare journey began.

From Raie Binet. MAY I thank Deputy Paul Le Claire, who I do not know, for his letter to you (JEP, 7 Jun) in which he states what many of us feel about the long service to the public of former Housing Minister Senator Terry Le Main.

From Ken Hewitt, chairman, Les Vaux Housing Trust. I WAS interested to read your Saturday Interview with the new Housing Minister and his plans for the future of housing in the Island.

DEPUTY Geoff Southern was last night forced to admit that voters had roundly rejected party politics as he slumped to fifth place.

POLITICIANS from Jersey and Guernsey are meeting tomorrow to set up a committee that could save millions in both islands by cutting duplicated services.