Jersey Post cuts jobs

About 80 front-line postal workers are to be made redundant as Jersey’s postal service, Jersey Post, tries to compete in a changing world. Workers at the States-owned utility are to be offered a voluntary redundancy package over a four-year period. The...

Jersey Chamber Orchestra for Autism

The Jersey Chamber Orchestra is to raise money for autism on 30 January with a concert featuring some of the most popular classics. Star soloists Lawrence Power and Marianne Thorsen are also scheduled to perform. More details and information can...

Jersey States has urgent 2010 programme

Members of the States of Jersey face a tough year with a host of major policies set for debate and difficult decisions looming on tax and spending, according to Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur. In a New Year interview, the senator...

Prayers in the States of Jersey

The role of the Dean of Jersey as a religious representative of the Church of England in Jersey’s parliament, the States, is unusual, a survey of other Commonwealth jurisdictions has shown. Of the 22 jurisdictions that responded, only two had religious...

Foreign minister for Jersey

Jersey needs a foreign minister to represent it abroad, former Chief Minister Frank Walker has told a meeting of business leaders. Speaking at a recent Chamber of Commerce meeting in Guernsey, the former senator said that with Jersey’s economic future hinging...

Jersey gets new bank notes

A complete new set of Jersey banknotes will enter general circulation in February, the treasury minister has revealed. Senator Philip Ozouf has also announced that next year will see the introduction of a £100 note. However, his department is remaining...

Jersey Evening Post to launch me:mo mobile network

Jersey’s only daily paper, the Jersey Evening Post is to compete in the mobile phone market against the three existing suppliers, Jersey Telecom, Cable and Wireless and Vodafone The competition in the mobile phones market has been blamed for the...

Jersey Heritage gets more funds

UP to £800,000 of taxpayers’ money will be used to bail out troubled Jersey Heritage, the organisation founded to administer the island’s historic sites and museums. Just days after the comptroller and auditor general, Chris Swinson, issued a report criticising the...

Jersey drugs market highly profitable

Drugs are being sold in Jersey for 20 times more than their value in mainland Europe – making the island one of the most profitable targets for drug dealers in the world. New figures show that a kilo of cannabis...

Jersey puffins endangered

Jersey’s puffin colony may well be biologically extinct and it is probably too late to save the fragile population, according to an expert at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. Dr Glyn Young said that recent measures, including the establishment of a...