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IT is difficult to lay down hard and fast rules about when a recession deteriorates into a depression, but the generally agreed threshold is a decline in economic performance of at least ten per cent for a protracted period. Jersey is not in this dire condition, but the definition of depression serves as a benchmark and an indication of just how seriously we are likely to be affected by the present global downturn.

IT’S a funny thing, your first States sitting. The first one that I remember doing was a Budget meeting, probably in 2000 or 2001, and being confused about how States spending rose relentlessly without anything significant to show for it. I suppose I still am.

From Philip Pallot. I READ with incredulity the brief report in your paper (JEP, 8 January) that our newly formed Council of Ministers are to meet for a ‘jolly’ at the Hotel de France for a policy forum. I would ask them, through your columns, if they can justify, considering the current credit crisis, the […]

THIS may shock you. I had to think long and hard about even writing this down, let alone submitting it for publication.

THERE are some States debates that you just know aren’t going to go well.

AS a business reporter I am often asked how I see the economy shaping up and ‘what is really happening out there, in the real world behind the headlines and spin’.

I WAS born in 1977 – way, way too late for the golden years of journalism. I had hopes, though, dreams of unmarked envelopes containing fabulous leaked documents, meetings in smoky back rooms, images of running into the Editor’s office an hour after deadline with some awesome story and hearing him rush out yelling:’Stop the press!’

From Nick Pitman, co-owner, Trek Plus. IT seems quite obvious to me that many States Members dislike Jersey-owned businesses with a passion. So much so that they actively seek to destroy them. When Senator Philip Ozouf was in charge of Economic Development he said publicly that it was not his job to protect local businesses. […]

STATES budgets lurching into the red, a Millennium Town Park we can’t have by 2012 after all, our economy in the hands of people who don’t seem to like us all of a sudden – the news hasn’t been great recently, has it?