THREE of the Island’s biggest supermarkets are to be sold to Waitrose.
Crushing defeat for no-confidence move
DEPUTY Geoff Southern suffered another crushing defeat yesterday when his vote of no confidence in the Chief Minister was heavily defeated in the States.
Discharges are a threat to our Ramsar sites
From Dave Cabeldu. SAVE Our Shoreline are currently challenging several discharge permit applications currently before Planning and Environment, from both Transport and Technical Services and the Jersey Electricity Company.
Battle ‘must become more commercial’
THE Battle of Flowers will have to become more commercialised if plans to reduce States grants are approved, the Economic Development Minister has warned.
Teenagers arrested after spate of fires in St Brelade
TWO teenagers were arrested last night on suspicion of causing two fires in St Brelade.
Tax burden must fall on the rich
JERSEY can still claim to be a location where individuals and businesses pay relatively low taxes, but how long that claim will remain tenable is open to serious question.
Housing in call for means-test
STATES tenants should be means-tested to stop homes being given to people who do not deserve them, the new Housing Minister said yesterday.
The question is whether it goes beyond the broad, generic anti-politician feeling that is as firmly rooted here as elsewhere
THE space allotted to this column is far too short to list all of the good things about the Blue Note Bar in Broad Street. That’s a shame, because I could write at Tolstoyesque length on this subject – about the beer, about the music, about the strange and slightly frightening ornaments, about the new [...]
2015: It’s time to shine
HOSTING the 2015 Island Games in Jersey will give people a ‘time to shine’.
‘Explore further cuts’
MORE options for public sector spending cuts need to be put on the table before tax increases are considered, say the IoD.
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