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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 […]

JERSEY is on the ‘front line of the world economic conflict against Russia’, the External Relations Minister has said as he defended the government’s actions on oligarch assets held in the Island. In a letter to the JEP, Senator Ian Gorst said Jersey was ‘one of the few places in the world’ to obtain a […]

JERSEY will seek to extend the range of Islanders’ relatives fleeing Ukraine who can seek refuge here and introduce emergency visas for them, if proposals are passed by the States. Deputy Jess Perchard has lodged a proposition calling for the External Relations Minister Ian Gorst and Home Affairs Minister Gregory Guida to contact the UK […]

THE first Ukrainian families fleeing the Russian invasion could begin arriving in Jersey this weekend, the External Relations Minister has said, as he revealed that more than 100 offers of accommodation had been made by Islanders. Senator Ian Gorst (pictured left) said he was not surprised by the level of generosity and compassion being shown […]

ISLANDERS have been paying tribute to Constable Sadie Le Sueur-Rennard, who died on Friday. Mrs Le Sueur-Rennard was taken ill in the morning and her death was formally announced by the Bailiff, Timothy Le Cocq, in the afternoon. She was elected as St Saviour Constable in 2011 before being returned unopposed in 2014 and 2018. […]

THE Chief Minister was this morning due to face questions as to why External Relations Minister Philip Ozouf has stepped down from his political responsibility for the financial services industry – just five days after she publicly backed him. Deputy Ozouf resigned as minister with responsibility for the sector after being summonsed to attend the […]

TRIBUTES have been paid to one of Jersey’s last veterans of the Normandy landings, who has died aged 97. Richard Wraight was serving with the British Army’s Essex Regiment when he landed on the French coast shortly after D-Day in 1944. In 2016, the St Saviour resident was one of seven Jersey war veterans awarded […]

ONEGOV, a five-year plan to streamline government departments introduced by former chief executive Charlie Parker, will be dismantled if the States support a proposition lodged by the Environment Minister. Deputy John Young, a persistent critic of ‘the disconnect between our ministerial structure and the way staff are organised in departments’, wants individual ministers to again […]

THE Jersey Lifeboat Association has requested it be allowed to operate again – as a leaked report into the events surrounding the 2017 St Helier RNLI crew walkout which led to the breakaway formation of the JLA threatens to reignite the dispute. In an open letter sent to the Jersey Harbour Authority, Ports of Jersey […]

JERSEY will seek to share policy ideas on climate change with other smaller islands following a successful webinar hosted by the government.