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PLANS to restore and expand the former Millbrook House Hotel into an art-themed tourist venue with a spa and cookery school have been approved.

JERSEY’S cannabis-growing industry will be taxed at 20%, following a vote in the States Assembly.

MINISTERIAL-LEVEL discussions about how Jersey can help Afghan refugees within its ‘highly constrained Island setting’ are due to take place in the coming days, the government has said.

Permits for workers in the hospitality industry have been extended to help tackle ‘an acute shortage of staff’ within the industry.

THE government must strike a ‘balance’ between spending millions of pounds on property purchases for the new hospital at Overdale before securing planning permission and the need to advance the project, the head of a Scrutiny Panel has said.

POLICE patrols are to be carried out at vaccination drop-in clinics as the Deputy Chief Minister pledged to ensure that those Islanders who wished to receive Covid-19 jabs could do so without being intimidated.

BUSINESS leaders are urging the government to ease Covid-19 restrictions as cases continue to fall and hopes are raised that the Omicron wave has peaked. Following confirmation that England’s ‘Plan B’ restrictions will cease next week, and similar moves planned in jurisdictions including Scotland and Guernsey, retail and hospitality figures are calling for ministers in […]

FALLING case numbers, less severe disease and growing levels of immunity are helping Jersey ‘edge towards’ the end of the pandemic, the deputy medical officer of health has said. Dr Ivan Muscat believes that the Island is heading in the right direction and that the ‘balance of risks’ approach would soon enable changes to be […]

THE government’s recent ‘strong recommendation’ to wear masks in indoor public places has led to booking cancellations in the events and hospitality sector, the Economic Development Minister has said.