THE ‘dreadful’ States decision to relax Sunday trading laws is an unprecedented attack on the Island’s way of life and culture, says the owner of one of Jersey’s biggest and best known shops.
Moving times for the animals
WORK to demolish a rock face at Bellozanne could start next month after scores of protected creatures which used to live there were rehomed.
Call for investigation into police links with newspaper
THREE States Members have called for an official investigation into whether States police officers were paid by journalists for information during the Haut de la Garenne inquiry.
Bus operator ‘could have been fined’
BUS operator Connex could theoretically have been made to pay up to £750,000 a year in penalties for poor service, say accountancy consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
St Ouen to hold first election for Constable in a century
THERE will be a contested election for the position of Constable of St Ouen for the first time in 108 years.
Gas price to go up again
THOUSANDS of Islanders are facing another rise in household bills after Jersey Gas announced that its prices are to increase for the third time in less than a year.
Panel to consider ‘battle zone’ in the national park
A DECISION on whether to let a man continue to run a commercial war games company – where people fire biodegradable pellets with replica guns at each other – will be made this week.
The move for Sunday shopping must be reversed immediately
From Gerald Voisin. THE recent decision by the States to allow all shops over 700 square metres to open on a Sunday is the greatest attack on this Island’s way of life and culture that I have ever witnessed.
A step in the right direction
UNTIL quite recently, it seemed that a Jersey anti-discrimination law had been put on the back burner for so long that this category of legislation would never make the statute book.
There’s certainly been a lot of talk about giving recently – whether aid or bail-out
WITHIN 24 hours of the launch of the Joint Charity Appeal for cash for the latest famine in East Africa, £6m had been pledged by a British public renowned for its generosity.
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