ALTHOUGH the global recession has begun to bite here in Jersey, the worst might not yet be over. We have already seen redundancies and a significant downturn in certain sectors of the economy, but Economic Development Minister Alan Maclean warned the States yesterday that, comparatively speaking, this could be ‘the calm before the storm’.
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Lord Coe lines up for awards night
THE sportsman responsible for heading the successful bid for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games will be speaking to Islanders at an awards ceremony next month. Lord Sebastian Coe will be the keynote speaker at the Jersey Enterprise Awards gala dinner on 26 February at Fort Regent. During his athletics career Lord Coe, who […]
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A Week in Politics
I’M sorry, we don’t do God’ was the famous Alistair Campbell remark, cutting off a question to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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A Week in Politics
HERE’S the thing about us: we want to buy a Ford but drive a Rolls-Royce. It’s not our fault; it’s just how we’re wired.
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Firms invited to bid for contracts
JERSEY businesses will have the chance to make an initial bid for States contracts on Monday. The Meet the Buyer day at the Hotel de France promises to provide information about opportunities for local firms to provide a range of services and products to States departments. This is the first time that the States have […]
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A good decision after all
WE are now almost ten years into this new millennium but, as anyone who visits St Helier will be all too aware, the promised Millennium Park which was to have taken shape on the old gasworks site has yet to materialise.
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Spending ‘flair’ has been crunched into submission
FOR a quiet January in 2009, this has been an action-packed month.
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Protection in place for depositors’ cash
ALL Jersey account holders now have £50,000 worth of their savings protected.
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£200,000 ‘bitter pill’ for Woolies staff
ISLANDERS who were made redundant following the collapse of Woolworths could have claimed a total of nearly £200,000 in compensation if they had lived in the UK. It is believed that about 90 staff would have been able to claim a redundancy package which is paid by the United Kingdom government when a firm goes […]
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Maclean hedges bets on Waterfront
ECONOMIC Development Minister Alan Maclean yesterday refused to be drawn on whether he believed the Waterfront development should go ahead as planned.
