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THE government needs to explain what action it is taking to crack down on ‘unnecessary golden handshakes’, with more than £3.4 million having been paid to departing civil servants in the past five years, the head of a spending watchdog has said.

JERSEY has a ‘very tight timescale’ left to gather remaining details from French fishermen to issue them licences to continue working the Island’s waters, the External Relations Minister has said.

FERRY services between the Channel Islands and Normandy could resume next spring, it has been announced.

FRANCE will be breaching international law if it unilaterally carries out threats to interfere with the Channel Islands’ electricity supply and stop fishermen landing into the country’s ports, the External Relations Minister has said.

‘HELLO… and welcome to my funeral.’ Although they were celebrating the life of an absent friend and loved one, those attending the send-off for Gary Burgess might have blinked and felt as if he was moving among them. During a moving 80-minute service at St Helier Methodist Centre yesterday, Gary’s force of personality somehow managed […]

PROFITS from the sale of medicinal cannabis will no longer be treated as criminal proceeds, the States has agreed in a move that will enable the finance sector to become involved in investment in the emerging health sector.

THE appointment of a new permanent government chief executive should be delayed until after next year’s election, a Scrutiny panel has said.

THE External Relations Minister has moved to reassure Islanders that Jersey’s electricity supply will not be cut off, following new threats from a senior French politician.

FORMER Home Affairs Minister Len Norman, who died earlier this month aged 73, was laid to rest in his home parish of St Clement yesterday.