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THE job prospects of young Islanders have been given a huge boost thanks to a ground-breaking training initiative.

Over 500 runners completed Sunday’s Fantastic North Run, local athletes James Cunningham and Jo Gorrod taking the top honours.

JERSEY wasted no time in getting on to the podium at the Jeux des Iles in Sicily yesterday with five medals on the first day of official competition.

THE terms of reference of the States Members’ Remuneration Review Body state that ‘no person should be precluded from serving as a Member of the States by reason of insufficient income’.

STATES chief executive Bill Ogley is to receive a six-figure pay-off when he leaves his job at the end of the month, a States Senator said yesterday.

SO it’s back to the drawing board for ministerial government. It would appear that even the Council of Ministers, who have often boasted about the improvements introduced back in 2001, are having second thoughts about the way our machinery of government is working.

Any proposed future law changes need to take account of the potential cost to business, according to the new president of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce.

From Ted Vibert. JOHN Boothman (JEP, 18 May) is full of accusations but totally unable to back them up with facts. When he wrote his last letter about me and the JDA in November last year, he wrote about me having ‘nihilistic policies’. I challenged him to produce any policy I have ever supported that [...]

AMERICANS are sometimes surprised when they learn that New Jersey got its name from a tiny British island, but US President Barack Obama now knows all about Jersey Royals.

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