An inquiry into offshore financial centres has been launched by the British House of Commons treasury select committee.
Both the States of Jersey and the independent finance industry promotional unit, Jersey Finance, are likely to be submitting a written response to the...
GST – Jersey’s controversial new general sales tax, has finally started. Prices have been going up around the island as Jersey woke up on the 5 May to a three per cent jump in the price of just about everything, from...
A bridge linking Jersey to France may be viable if enough electricity can be generated through wave and wind power.
Senior politicians from the island and Normandy have agreed to have further discussions on the idea of a bridge from Seymour Tower...
A house in the Jersey parish of St Saviour is being converted into the island’s first music academy.
Based at the large property of Chateau Vermont, the Jersey Music Academy will provide a broad spectrum of music tuition to both children and...
The historic States debate on the future of the world-famous breed of Jerseys has been delayed for three months.
Members of Jersey’s parliament were due to vote last week on a proposition to lift the ban on imports of bull semen from...
The value of property going through Jersey’s Royal Court exceeded £1 billion for the first time last year.
That is equivalent to the sale of 2,128 houses worth £470,000 – the average price of a three-bedroomed home – or 41 such homes...
The working population hit a record last year with more people now employed in the finance in industry than at any time in the Jersey’s history.
Official figures reveal that the number of employed islanders reached 53,040 in December 2007, 1,460 more...
The fragment of a child’s skull found at the former children’s home, Haut de la Garenne, definitely pre-dates the abuse inquiry period and will not be the subject of a murder investigation.
The layer of earth in which it was found means...
Tests to date the fragment of a child’s skull found at the now notorious former children’s home, Haut de la Garenne, in February, are likely to remain in inconclusive.
Haut de la Garenne, a large orphan’s and poor children’s institution in Jersey...
Cultural and business links between the capitals of Jersey and Madeira – St Helier and Funchal – have been cemented with the signing of an historic twinning agreement.
St Helier Constable (mayor) Simon Crowcroft put his name to the document of a...
