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THE Treasury Minister could be asked to intervene after the company responsible for Jersey’s social housing allegedly ignored a States vote to protect open space when redeveloping a St Helier site.

AROUND 2,000 Islanders recently protested against the proposed development of six office blocks on the site of the Esplanade as part of the calls for the work on the proposed Jersey International Finance Centre to be stopped.

MORE than £9.5 million has been spent by the inquiry investigating historical child abuse since it was launched last year – £1 million of which has been spent on hotels and travel.

MINISTERS have pledged to find up to £1.2 million to develop a new seaside community facility that includes a home for the Jersey Sea Cadets.

ANY further increase in the state pension age will make life more difficult for older workers who are already facing discrimination when trying to find a job, a former Senator has claimed.

A UNION has criticised the creation of a £100,000-a-year finance job in the Chief Minister’s Department as the States rolls-out the biggest cuts programme the Island has ever seen.

Christine Herbert looks at what exactly happens to the money we pay in taxes

CUTS to public-sector staff and services proposed in the four-year States spending plan could be unfair and fail to make the savings required, economists have warned.

States could sell off large capital assets to help solve projected £145 million deficit Treasury Minister has suggested cashing in on St Saviour’s Hospital and Environment Department building Sales could raise as much as £15 million for the States Should St Saviour’s Hospital be sold? Take part in our poll below THE St Saviour’s Hospital […]

INCREASED duty on pints of beer and lager that was introduced to help subsidise TV licences for the over-75s should be scrapped, the head of a major brewery on the Island has said.