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FORENSIC inspectors could arrive in the Island within the next two weeks to determine whether the incinerator’s faulty generator – which has cost the Island hundreds of thousands of pounds – can be restarted. Infrastructure Minister Kevin Lewis made the comments in the States yesterday following a question from Deputy Inna Gardiner about when repairs […]

A RANGE of major capital investments and other government spending will be the subject of a Scrutiny panel review over the next two months.

THE public still do not have answers on how their money is being spent, the head of a Scrutiny panel has said, in the wake of a ‘huge payout’ to the government’s former chief executive.

AN extreme-hot-weather warning has been issued by the government as Jersey faces an intense heatwave, which will see temperatures soar close to 40°C. Numerous schools are set to shut on Monday or close early, and Islanders are being urged to check on vulnerable friends, neighbours and relatives amid what are widely expected to be record-breaking […]

THE former headquarters of the States of Jersey Police at Rouge Bouillon will be used to extend the neighbouring primary school, if proposals are passed in tomorrow’s States sitting.

FUTURE government plans to stimulate the economy should be targeted at the sectors worst affected by the effects of Covid-19, a Scrutiny panel has
said.

A MAJOR public inquiry into the Island’s biggest-ever capital project is due to begin today, as an independent planning inspector starts his review of the controversial new-hospital scheme. Following years of setbacks and two rejected planning applications, the new proposals to build the facility at Overdale will face five days of scrutiny, after which independent […]

LEGISLATION to manage the number of Airbnb properties in Jersey could be introduced as early as next year to prevent holiday rentals from taking homes away from Islanders, the Deputy Chief Minister has said.

THE government spent £47 million on consultants and interim workers in the first six months of 2021 – almost double that of the same period two years earlier. Since the beginning of 2019, ministers have been required to report to the States every six months on the cost of consultants, interims, fixed-term employees and agency […]

AS much as half of Jersey’s Polish community may have left the Island during the past couple of years as part of a broader ‘exodus’ of people, community figures have said.