Ambitious Telecom plans

JERSEY Telecom could be several times bigger than it is now by 2016, when a new strategy revealed today is fully put in place.


Dismayed by Island’s decline

From Philip Amy. EARLIER this year, my wife and I decided to visit Jersey, not just to visit friends and relatives, but to explore the possibility of retiring to my ancestral home – and miss the overbearing heat of Northern Australia.


‘Pointless’ Airport security to be cut?

JERSEY Airport could relax security checks if a national review of current regimes is carried out, following criticisms of needless airport security measures in the UK.


St John parishioners oppose karters’ plan

PLANS to close the loop road at Ronez to make a permanent go-kart track were heavily criticised by St John parishioners last night.


Planned GST rise: ‘I’ve had to eat my words,’ says Ozouf

TREASURY Minister Philip Ozouf has defended his controversial proposal to raise GST – less than two years after vowing that he would not increase the tax.


Drugs warning

ISLANDERS are being warned of the danger of importing an illegal drug unwittingly, believing it to be a plant food.


Work begins on Jersey’s relief project in Madeira

WORK has begun on an old people’s home in Madeira which is to benefit from more than £100,000 raised in Jersey.


Breezing competition

MEMBERS of the Jersey Horse Driving Society turned back time over the weekend with a display of a traditional Jersey farming method.


Supermarket to create 200 new jobs

NEW supermarket chain Waitrose will create 200 new jobs – double the number of workers they expected to take on.


No smoke without ire

From Sonia Ahier-Kerr. HAS something gone wrong with my calendar, I ask myself? Has 1 April come round again already?

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