Islanders’ savings should soon be protected by law.
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Fort back on agenda
PLANS to reinvent Fort Regent as a conference and leisure centre may be revisited. And a Jersey conference ‘ambassador’ scheme will be launched in the next few months to encourage residents to use their contacts to win business for the Island. The Fort has been the subject of a number of in-depth studies in recent […]
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Think twice, buy local
A NEW campaign encouraging Islanders to support local businesses and so help stimulate the economy during tough financial times has been launched today.
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A gamble worth taking
FOR many years, those in authority in Jersey have displayed an ambivalent attitude towards gambling. While the Island’s gambling laws remain stuck in the past, a steady growth has been tolerated in the kind of activities which would have once have been totally taboo, including lotteries, betting shops, raffles, bingo and crown and anchor stalls.
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Call to support intern scheme
BUSINESSES in Jersey are being encouraged to support local students by offering them paid work experience as part of the Undergraduate Internship Programme. The States-run scheme is now in its fourth year and has so far given more than 180 young Islanders the chance to experience life at a wide range of businesses. However, in […]
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A Week in Politics
WHAT more elegant way to extend your middle finger to voters could there possibly be?
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Late bid to change 9 May rule for shops
A LAST-ditch plea has been made to stop shops across the Island being allowed to open on Liberation Day this Saturday.
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Fishing: Scrap bag limit proposition, says Deputy
A CONTROVERSIAL proposed law to impose bag limits on leisure fishermen should be scrapped and replaced with a scheme to ban selling fish without a licence, says Deputy Andrew Green.
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Flagging tourism industry given a £500,000 boost
MORE than £500,000 of taxpayers’ money is to be injected into the struggling tourism industry to boost plummeting visitor numbers. The cash will fund a major advertising campaign to target recession-hit UK residents to persuade them to book their summer holiday here. The move was announced by Economic Development Minister Alan Maclean at a Jersey […]
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Welcome protection scheme
THE recent Foot report on the Crown Dependencies and Britain’s Offshore Territories cast Jersey in a very favourable light.
