Jersey’s planning and environmental department has drawn up a coastal protection plan to present to the island’s parliament (the States) for debate and ratification. The report recommends four main objectives: protection and conservation of the coastline; increase research and data collection; more...

Dairy farmers from all over the world who keep herds of Jersey cows are in Jersey for the 2008 World Jersey Cattle Bureau Conference. A group of delegates spent a week touring farms in the UK before travelling on to Jersey...

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 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...

Different breeds of cow could be seen in Jersey’s fields for the first time in the island’s history. If a draft bull semen importation law goes through the States this month, the door will be open to breeders to cross Jersey...