You say

The most recent comments posted to stories on our site will appear here.

Click a user’s name to go straight to their comment, or the story headline to view the story. You can then post a fresh comment.

Everyone who posts a comment will have a small icon associated with their name, a Gravatar (Globally Recognised Avatar) and all future comments from that email address will bear the same icon.

Gravatars are assigned by the system unless you create your own.

Add your own Gravatar at www.gravatar.com

Charing Cross: Co-op and Planning go head to head (24)

  • Talk a good game 2013-06-20 10:53

    Interesting feedbacks to my original post. It would seem that THE Co-op need 3 floor of office space and flats, "Someone?", this is Interesting. The...

  • Sensible 2013-06-20 09:05

    You can vote yes or no on the petition...or, wait for it, take the time and set up your own No Petition.

  • Captain Findus P Haddock 2013-06-20 09:01

    Ahoy shipmates. 40 years ago these buildings might have been worth saving. But they are well beyond saving now. They are a dirty ruined eyesore. The C...

  • Sensible 2013-06-20 09:01

    Agree, you simply cannot move for tourists around Pitt Street, taking photographs of those buildings. Why just the other day I bumped into 10 French t...

  • alba gu brath 2013-06-20 02:29

    Character of Jersey! Run down slum buildings with a tatty old painted sign. Some attraction. Your reference to destroying the island: those people wh...

Gorst: International opinion switches in Jersey’s favour (8)

  • Donkey 2013-06-20 10:51

    Your finance industry is about as straight as your politicians, judiciary, media, civil servants etc. Unfortunately Guernsey has its name associate...

  • Renegade 2013-06-20 10:43

    My friend who is more familiar with the ways of tax evasion than I has said that the concessions we have made are superficial and will do little if an...

  • Tim South 2013-06-20 10:06

    In your answers to the Assembly this week, you announced that you are not there to judge the behaviour of individual members of your own council of mi...

  • Tobias 2013-06-20 09:43

    This carefully-worded article is 100% correct, Jersey is indeed being recognised for it's efforts in fighting tax *evasion*. However, at the same ...

  • So, what's next? 2013-06-20 09:20

    'There is now, perhaps for the first time, recognition for what Jersey has already achieved in financial regulation and this has put beyond doubt the ...

Chinese bank in the process of establishing branch in Jersey (4)

  • Johnty 2013-06-20 10:50

    You do realise that a Hong Kong bank has been operating in Jersey for decades don't you? Its called the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation ...

  • Mark 2013-06-20 08:19

    BREAKING NEWS: 08.13, 20 June Further to my earlier post. "We're hearing that the cash crunch is reaching fever pitch in China", http://www...

  • Mark 2013-06-20 07:54

    Breaking news: 07:31, 20 June "Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. dropped 3.2 percent in Hong Kong, pacing declines among Chinese lender...

  • Mark 2013-06-19 18:28

    Interesting times, currently there is much concern regarding the viability of parts of the Chinese economy. "The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has ...

Of course tax avoidance goes on in Jersey, Deputy tells Channel 4 (171)

  • Rentokil 2013-06-20 10:49

    Also, whilst trying to pull me up and correct me you have also made it very apparent the lack of inquisitivity there is within 'back office' in Jersey...

  • Aaron 2013-06-20 10:43

    Oh my, Are you suggesting that Landing fees are actually duty on fags and booze? If so, where can I reclaim my tax from my holidays as I dont smoke or...

  • Rentokil 2013-06-20 10:40

    Yes I fully aware of what a scapegoat is thanks!

  • Every Sympathy 2013-06-20 10:19

    "What do you do? Unemployed and on benefits?" Retired, after a rewarding career doing a lot more for humanity than tax avoidance does. Sufficiently...

  • Anon 2013-06-20 06:59

    Yes, quite ridiculous. Agree with the sentiment re closing that loophole, but it was just another loophole like the ones you have been telling the new...

Social Security to pay for care costs (10)

  • davidb 2013-06-20 10:46

    What you do not realise, the people now receiving the old age pension ,were people who after the occupation took the Island from bankruptcy. to today...

  • Philippa 2013-06-20 09:57

    What's the deal with the social security/elderly care plans then? Why shouldn't you have to sell your house/use your savings to pay for your care? Sur...

  • Jambo 2013-06-20 08:46

    Basically...what he's saying, is forget trying to save and buy your own house folks, blow it all in Vegas otherwise we'll take it off you to pay for y...

  • On the fence 2013-06-20 07:16

    Who do I sign my pay cheque over to ?

  • john, st helier 2013-06-19 23:28

    Social Security 12.5%, plus 2% extra and Income tax of 20%, and now a new amount for the young to pay to ensure the old keep houses they can't live in...

Music festival gets go-ahead for campers (19)

  • Mick 2013-06-20 10:36

    I am one of the grey brigade you say visits Jersey and have done so for the past 30 years as, has my family spending huge sums in the island, I welco...

  • Sally 2013-06-20 10:34

    Good for you. Better go over there then.

  • Mike 2013-06-20 10:32

    Youi probably live miles away within the large parish of St Helier.

  • St Johnnie 2013-06-20 10:12

    Yes, good news indeed, shame this years line up is appalling all the same.

  • Jub 2013-06-19 20:27

    NIMBY!!!

Trinity Church setting has been damaged (4)

  • Judge Jeffries 2013-06-20 10:27

    How can it be possible that these houses are to be allocated solely to Trinity born purchasers ? Surely this is discriminatory and thus flies in the ...

  • Overpopulated 2013-06-20 08:48

    I read that these houses are going to be £500k. There are plenty of houses in the island for sale for less than this figure Why could the first...

  • too tall, too ugly 2013-06-19 22:21

    why has an awful set of steps been built beside the only AA box in Britain and covering a granite gate pillar?

  • Realist 2013-06-19 20:04

    I agree totally with this letter. Somehow aesthetics don't seem to be a strong point when it comes to the politically appointed States Planning adviso...

Jersey’s population up to 99,000 (79)

  • Fleeing Islander 2013-06-20 10:21

    Well said, Mjolnir de Jersiase. I know personally of jobs where a perfectly qualified and experienced local was turned down in favour of a UK applican...

  • pETE 2013-06-20 09:43

    The real problems are letting in more and more immigrants when we have 2,000 people seeking employment and not having a basic requirement to speak En...

  • jerseyboy 2013-06-20 08:56

    Si, Jersey born people are British citizens by birth and are entitled as is any British person to work in Britain . Anyone from Britain who is a Briti...

  • Sensible 2013-06-20 08:46

    They generally work at the minimum wage; non trained, non experienced locals would only attract that wage. The question should be why are non local...

  • Overpopulated 2013-06-20 08:46

    Correct, but they are going down the pc route already! The abuse you mentioned above has also happened in Oxford, more recent court case and doubtl...

Tadier calls for ‘fully-fledged’ Jersey film industry (44)

  • Captain Findus P Haddock 2013-06-20 08:55

    Ahoy me hearties. Is there no end to the ramblimgs of this person? First he, as an elected politician, disrespects the island in the French and UK med...

  • non starter 2013-06-20 07:07

    Rentokil June 19, 2013 at 8:30 am Incorrect we have a couple here capable of that and they have made things for film sets in the past T...

  • Chris K 2013-06-19 17:09

    Yeah he is a really clever bloke. We can invest Millions into Fort Regent and change it into Hollywood 2. Change the Esplanade into Beverly Hills and...

  • Sanity 2013-06-19 16:28

    Our government are not short of a few muppet extras. Hope Monty and his fellow left wing revolutionaries have made a declaration of interest.

  • Ashley 2013-06-19 13:12

    Indeed, it is very ironic that the only card that Jersey can play to attract a film industry would involve tax advantages. Sure, Jersey is pretty, ...

Tax breaks on way? (27)

  • alba gu brath 2013-06-20 03:02

    We're being softened up.

  • Andy 2013-06-19 19:04

    Election springs to mind next year for Ozouf! enough said!!

  • COLD EVENINGS in june 2013-06-19 14:08

    even the bees are buying dufflecoats and staying in.

  • Sporran 2013-06-19 13:17

    Yes, I suppose that is what will happen. But if tax thresholds were increased by say, £3,000, it would reduce tax bills, it would encourage people...

  • St Johnnie 2013-06-19 13:13

    You'd better believe it, because they are, we are told, the most needy in society. Heres a hint for those of you with too many children and no means o...

St Aubin village consultation over £1m traffic makeover (11)

  • truthseeker 2013-06-20 00:50

    For St.Aubin to do this clearing cars from outside the Parish hall...why..? the village is strapped for parking already...so make less...? Hello..?and...

  • Lee Mc 2013-06-19 13:20

    I would love to see the front of the harbour cobbled in the front of the bars and restaurants and restrict vehicle access to deliveries and residents.

  • SteveF 2013-06-19 12:28

    Leave it alone.

Pop-up shops preferable to empty premises (3)

  • I Pasdenom 2013-06-19 23:30

    Julie Andrews-Ponter "...reliefs are available on empty premises..." Julie, what reliefs are you talking about?

Smoking ban would be Health extremism (4)

St Ouen property wins UK architecture award (22)

  • OWW 2013-06-19 20:06

    Sorry I think it looks great and imaginative. Better than Identikit fake farm houses that are going up everywhere.

Government House levée in pictures (3)

  • Royalist 2013-06-19 17:27

    #2 What was so exclusive about it when it was an open invitation to everyone in Jersey?? A few glasses of wine, no food and fantastic volunteer entert...

  • Kram Lafar 2013-06-19 12:06

    And how much did this exclusive party cost the Jersey taxpayers?

Welcome home Henry! (26)

  • Bright Side 2013-06-19 15:08

    Well, Alan, if you haven't heard of him then he must've left!! Honestly, what on earth was the point of your comment? Clearly you just fancied joining...

We’re getting a raw deal, say the elderly (72)

  • Overpopulated 2013-06-19 13:22

    Lucy dear, he world was a different place not so long ago. Before the 1960s and even then women had to leave work when they married. Married women d...

More Island families relying on free food (39)

  • Parktown Prawn 2013-06-19 12:33

    Davey Just because you call somebody a name, it doesn't make it so. That is just a form or bullying in my opinion. Perhaps you should look up the wo...

Thursday 20 June

  • Man jailed for stabbing passer-by
  • Man jailed for fraud
  • Visitation over Dean suspension
  • Strict rules planned for Jersey Live campsite
  • 60 jobs over five pages