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A SCHEME allowing French day-trippers to visit the Island using ID cards as an alternative to passports will be reviewed next month, with Jersey’s government likely to seek an extension beyond September. Around 50% of passengers are expected to arrive from France using national ID cards by the end of the summer, according to ferry […]

THE government is committed to ‘ensuring frontline services are appropriately funded’, the Home Affairs Minister has said after the former head of the Jersey Police Authority warned that the force was ‘under-resourced’ and spent too much time dealing with mental-health issues. Deputy Helen Miles spoke out after Dr Jason Lane, who spent more than nine […]

THE first French tourists to enter Jersey under a new post-Brexit ID card scheme are due to arrive in the Island on Saturday. A delegation from the Conseil Départemental de la Manche – the regional authority which supports the Manche Iles Express ferry service – is also due to meet government representatives in Jersey and […]

SKILLED workers returning to the Island are facing difficulties at airports in other parts of the world because of the government’s reluctance to introduce and use more recognisable visas, according to a Scrutiny panel. Currently, skilled workers on visas receive a Jersey immigration stamp in their passport, referred to as a ‘wet ink’ stamp. But […]

JERSEY’S tourism industry has received a major boost after a deal was struck to allow French nationals to visit the Island on day trips using only a national identity card. The number of French visitors plummeted following Brexit, after which anyone entering the Island from France was required to show a passport. Previously visitors could […]

THE government minister with political responsibility for gas said she was “disappointed and frustrated” by the outage and would commission a review to identify what went wrong and what lessons could be learned. Although there is no gas regulator in Jersey, Home Affairs Minister Helen Miles is designated as the “competent authority” for gas, electricity […]

AN Islandwide gas failure “in the depths of winter” would “almost certainly” have led to death among the elderly and vulnerable, a local charity head has said. Ben Shenton, who chairs Age Concern, also urged the government to treat the ongoing gas outage as a “warning” and said they needed to “ensure this problem does […]

THE cause of a fire which wrecked the kitchen at HMP La Moye earlier this year has been revealed – tea towels. Home Affairs Minister Helen Miles said the items had self-combusted after being taken out of a dryer and placed in a sealed plastic bag. Revealing the cause of the blaze at a Children, […]