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From Darius Pearce. I READ with interest the Treasury Minister’s plan for £23 million of public expenditure savings (JEP, 18 July), however having taken the trouble to review the report of the Fiscal Policy Panel released this month, there are a few issues which the Minister has failed to address.

SUPER-rich immigrants are to be lured to Jersey with the promise of new lower tax rates.

A PENSIONERS’ rights campaigner has welcomed a landmark States decision to dramatically reduce the cost of long-term care in Jersey.

ASSISTANT Chief Minister Freddie Cohen has once again been targeted in an anti-Semitic hate campaign just weeks after receiving a racist death threat and threatening phone calls.

STATES departments will keep tabs on dangerous criminals and potential offenders under a new policy to protect the public and victims.

Jersey play Italy today for a place in Sunday’s final of the ICC European Division 1 Cricket Championship.

THE chief executives of three States-owned utility companies took home over £500,000 between them last year.

IT has taken a very long time, but Jersey now has a Sunday trading law that makes at least a certain amount of sense. In essence, all but the Island’s largest supermarkets and garden centres will soon be allowed to open on a Sunday if they so choose, subject to the permission of the Constable [...]

THE Americans are at it again – taking classic English literature and adapting it to suit their own purposes.

TOUGH new measures to make Islanders on benefits look for work were yesterday agreed by the States.