blog.gov.jeInterim Associate Director of CYPES, Elaine Walker, explains how Jersey will join the global green festival this weekend to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Growing up in my hometown of Dublin, St Patrick’s Day was very much celebrated, like it is around the world, featuring parades, pubs and plenty of partying. St Patrick’s Day falls on … Read more Jersey celebrates St Patrick’s Day
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Jersey celebrates St Patrick’s Day
The Chief Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore, speaks to BBC Jersey about drainage systems affecting housing developments
On Wednesday 15 March the Chief Minster, Deputy Kristina Moore, appeared on the BBC Breakfast show with presenter Jenny Mullin to discuss drainage issues impacting the development of new affordable housing, particularly in St Peter. The first part of the interview featured Islander, Kevin Pallot, who is hoping to purchase one of the homes at … Read more The Chief Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore, speaks to BBC Jersey about drainage systems affecting housing developments
Chief Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore: Commonwealth Day Message
This week, I was delighted to record a Commonwealth Day Message from The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, Commonwealth Secretary-General. Please click on the link for the video message (opens in Youtube): https://youtu.be/5G2Y1plV5lU
Chief Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore: International Women’s Day 2023
Today (8 March) is International Women’s Day and it’s important that we all take a moment to reflect on our role in supporting women and girls of all ages to achieve their ambitions. Whilst there’s a long way to go before we attain global gender equality, it’s encouraging to note that Jersey is embracing women … Read more Chief Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore: International Women’s Day 2023
Government of Jersey celebrates International Women’s Day
Understanding what the Government of Jersey could do to celebrate International Women’s Day brings to mind a line from the film, Jaws. It’s the moment in the film when the police chief gets his first look at the size of the Great White Shark that’s terrorising the seas around Amity Island and understands that their … Read more Government of Jersey celebrates International Women’s Day
Combatting Financial Crime Together: Suspicious Activity Reports
Posted on — Categories Combatting Financial Crime, Economy, Finance, Tags Combatting Financial Crime, SARs, Suspicious Activity Reports
The Jersey Financial Investigation Unit has just published the latest quarterly results of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), giving a detailed overview of the kinds of reports received from the industry. More detailed SARs forms were introduced early last year and, as a result, much more in-depth analysis is possible, including: The information contained in SARs … Read more Combatting Financial Crime Together: Suspicious Activity Reports
Jersey Resilience: New Civil Contingencies Law to be prioritised
Posted on — Categories Agriculture, Community, Economy, External Relations, Retail, Safety, Transport
The Government of Jersey takes the resilience of the Island very seriously indeed and is constantly reviewing how it is assessing the challenges ahead and learning from those which we have recently faced. For example, the Report of the Jersey Independent COVID-19 Review, High Expectations, contained a number of recommendations aimed at ensuring that civil … Read more Jersey Resilience: New Civil Contingencies Law to be prioritised
Easy read: building accessible and inclusive services in government
The Adult Learning Disability Service and the Web Services Team have delivered a project that transforms the way people with learning disabilities access information on gov.je. This exciting project has delivered easy read content in HTML format and improves our easy read communications going forward. Take a look at our Easy read Adult Learning and … Read more Easy read: building accessible and inclusive services in government
GST and the Community Costs Bonus
With the introduction of GST at 3% in 2008, the government of the day provided for 3 sets of compensating measures. Tax allowances were increased over and above the usual annual uplift, to benefit all taxpayers Income Support payments linked to household spending were increased by 3%. For households that did not pay tax and … Read more GST and the Community Costs Bonus
Combatting Financial Crime Together: Risk – summary of event held on 28 Sept 2022
Business Risk Assessments are the foundation of any Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) strategy.