LEMN Sissay – one of Britain’s most popular and celebrated performance poets – has been booked to appear at this year’s Jersey Festival of Words, when he will also lend his support to a new Island poetry competition.
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First Islanders gain mediation qualification
A GROUP of 21 Islanders have become the first to complete a new local professional qualification that allows them to act as mediators in disputes.
Johnson declines to deny allegations he failed to declare potential conflicts
The Prime Minister repeatedly refused to comment on allegations centring on his association with Jennifer Arcuri.
Chilly weekend in store as temperatures drop below freezing
Areas with clear skies are expected to see the coldest weather.
COMMENT: There is room in politics for a bit of navel-gazing
NAVEL-gazing is not a phrase I’d really heard of before starting this job.
Long-term goals for Island women
JERSEY WOMEN recovered from a slow first half to impress Dan Seviour on Sunday, in what the joint-manager hopes will be the first of a number of development fixtures ahead of the 2021 Island Games.
Rescued women defend inconsistencies in account of ordeal at sea
The US Coast Guard is reviewing records from the days after Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava put to sea from Hawaii.
Literary Festival to return next year
JERSEY’S literary festival will return next year, it has been confirmed, following the success the inaugural event earlier this month.
Literary Festival secures £40,000 grant
A GRANT of almost £40,000 has been approved by the States to help fund a new literary festival which is scheduled to take place in the Island later this year.
Schools are ‘obsolete’, 11-year-old schoolboy tells local leadership conference
SCHOOLCHILDREN in Jersey are not being taught the lessons that will help them to find jobs in later life, business leaders, civil servants and States Members were on Wednesday.

