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MORE businesses will become eligible to receive government financial support if their profits have fallen during the latest wave of Covid-19 infections, ministers have announced. Earlier this week Chamber of Commerce chief executive Murray Norton and hairdresser Brett Brimble-Byrne raised concerns that decreased footfall in town and social distancing were harming many businesses not eligible […]

TEN Ukrainian Islanders have made requests to relocate relatives to Jersey amid desperate attempts to flee the war-torn country following Russia’s invasion. Earlier this week the government confirmed that it would be able to shelter refugees, providing they had immediate family living here. A specialist taskforce was also established to provide help and support. Yesterday, […]

JERSEY has a ‘responsibility, duty and moral obligation’ to build the new hospital at Overdale ‘without further delay’, the politician leading the project has told business leaders. Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce lunch yesterday, Senator Lyndon Farnham said that he believed the new hospital would be a ‘shining example of good healthcare’. The project […]

DELAYS to the new hospital would impact staff recruitment and patient safety, health officials said on the opening day of a public planning inquiry into the proposal to build at Overdale. The inquiry is being led by UK-based planning inspector Philip Staddon, who called the application ‘enormous’, with over 100 public representations, and hundreds of […]

THE Our Hospital team was warned in June of planners’ likely opposition to the Overdale development, it has emerged in a recently published document. Planners said that it would be ‘a tall order’ to resolve a series of fundamental problems with the scheme. They cautioned that the programme’s timing requirements – on which the 2026 […]

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. […]

BORDER testing is due to be relaxed before the end of the month, according to the Deputy Chief Minister.

NEWLY-BUILT residential properties can no longer be bought through share transfer without permission, the Deputy Chief Minister has ordered. Senator Lyndon Farnham approved the move as part of a ministerial decision. It forms part of the government’s Creating Better Homes Action Plan. Jersey’s share-transfer mechanism was set up decades ago to circumvent shortcomings in the […]

‘PENT-UP demand’ from holidaymakers is set to ensure a ‘strong’ summer for Jersey’s tourism industry, in spite of ongoing challenges for the sector, the Economic Development Minister has said. Hospitality businesses are hoping that the 2022 season, which began this weekend with more than 20,000 people set to travel in and out of the Island, […]