Can Jersey Survive?

Thursday 15th July 2010, 3:00PM BST.

General Sir Mike Jackson

THE former head of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, will be among the speakers at a major conference later this year that will debate the Island’s future.

The inaugural Jersey International Business School annual directors’ convention, which is entitled Can Jersey Survive? and is being run in association with the Jersey Evening Post, is to be held on 3 November at the Hotel de France.

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Mikael Jacksikoff

July 15, 2010 at 3:46 pm

I thought he was dead, I bought tickets to see him at the O2 arena, hope he does a few songs as well as speaking.

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Overpopulated

July 16, 2010 at 12:03 pm

Of course Jersey will survive, the Island has been here for millions of years sometimes bigger sometimes smaller as the tide has risen and fallen.

The question is really how long the current population can live in the manner to which they have become accustomed. The answer is no, but the affluenza of the past 15 or so years is not sustainable.

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roger wing

July 19, 2010 at 4:46 pm

Of Course Jersey will ‘survive’ but in what manner is debatable. The all but lost Tourism industry, the dwindling economy of growers, the changes to the islands tax status, the over development of the island and the ignoring of the islands population needs will kill off the special attraction to the island. Joining the euro will be its death knoll.

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