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MINISTERS have narrowly avoided an official reprimand from the States Assembly for not meeting an agreed deadline – but were warned that the pandemic should not be used as an excuse.

TECHNICAL issues mean Islanders are facing longer waits for messages confirming Covid test results – leaving hundreds in isolation for extended periods.

JERSEY’S newest political party – which has the backing of the majority of the Council of Ministers – has confirmed an intention to field at least 30 candidates in next year’s election.

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

MORE than £27 million was spent on the Island’s Covid testing programme up to April – while a further £15m is to be found to cover the rest of 2021.

DE-ESCALATION of the Island’s Covid-19 response will begin on Tuesday, with a return to near normality within the next two months. At a press conference yesterday, ministers outlined a series of steps to ease current measures, including scrapping compulsory mask-wearing and work-from-home guidance next week and dropping mandatory isolation for people with Covid by 31 […]

A VOTE banning landlords in Jersey from discriminating against families with children is a ‘big step forward’, a backbencher has said.

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.

ALL Islanders over the age of 18 are due to be offered a Covid-booster vaccination by the end of next month with those over the age of 40 eligible to book theirs now.