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ONE-OFF payments – such as food or energy vouchers – to tackle the worst cost-of-living crisis in three decades should be considered by ministers as part of future government budgets, a Scrutiny panel has said. Next week, the States Assembly is due to debate the government’s emergency mini-budget, which has been designed to help Islanders […]

TEN Ukrainian Islanders have made requests to relocate relatives to Jersey amid desperate attempts to flee the war-torn country following Russia’s invasion. Earlier this week the government confirmed that it would be able to shelter refugees, providing they had immediate family living here. A specialist taskforce was also established to provide help and support. Yesterday, […]

JERSEY cannot follow the EU in applying broader sanctions against Russia due to its reliance on the UK for information and security, the External Relations Minister has confirmed. In response to a written States question by Deputy Kirsten Morel, Senator Ian Gorst said that the Island was ‘not best placed’ to apply sanctions outside of […]

JERSEY and the United Arab Emirates have signed a business treaty with each other in a ‘first-of-its-kind’ deal for the Island.

JERSEY acted with ‘goodwill’ in applying post-Brexit fishing rules, the External Relations Minister has said after the European Parliament backed ‘extreme measures’ to safeguard the rights of EU member states to fish in Jersey and Guernsey waters. Last week, MEPs voted 619 votes to 12 in favour of urging the UK to ‘refrain from controversial […]

RETALIATORY measures threatened by the French government over the long-running fishing dispute have been delayed by 24 hours to allow further negotiations to continue.

JERSEY could try to strengthen business ties with Australia after being included in the UK’s new trade deal with the country. The deal was the UK’s first new free trade agreement since it left the EU at the end of last year and became an independent trading nation. Jersey, which is part of the UK’s […]

A BILLION-POUND loan linked to a Jersey-registered firm has thrown the sale of Chelsea FC into doubt, after concerns were raised that the club’s sanctioned owner, Roman Abramovich, might go back on a promise to write off the debt, it has been reported. The JEP recently revealed the significant financial links between Mr Abramovich and […]

A CANADIAN national with known business links to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich who was granted high-net-worth residency status to live in Jersey has been sanctioned by the UK government. Eugene Tenenbaum – a financier and director at Chelsea FC – is one of two people to have been sanctioned on Thursday and is reported to […]

JERSEY could collect tens of millions from global business giants such as Amazon as part of new international tax rules. The government has confirmed it will apply the reforms, which enable tax to be collected from super-size companies in the countries they operate in, from the start of next year. And as soon as 2024 […]