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Further details can be found in the Jersey Evening Post, the Island's leading source of news, information and advertising, available from 12.15pm on Mon-Fri and 9am on Saturday.
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| No new taxes before 2012 |
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STATES spending could rise by 7.2% to £559m next year - but ministers are promising no new taxes or tax increases until at least 2012. |
| Call for review of extradition law |
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JERSEY's finance workers need protection from extradition to the US, according to Assistant Home Affairs Minister Andrew Lewis, who has called for a review of the Extradition (Jersey) Law 2004. |
| States 'need clear guidelines on spending' |
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THE States of Jersey needs to establish clear guidelines on spending and investment, according to the economic adviser to the Jersey Chamber of Commerce. |
| Jersey sits at top table with PM at Stormont |
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THE first British-Irish Council meeting at Stormont was 'a special day', according to Chief Minister Frank Walker, who used the occasion to talk to new Prime Minister Gordon Brown about Jersey's finance and tourism industries. |
| Islander 'is being illegally detained' |
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THE lawyer of accused drug smuggler Trevor Collenette, who is being held in prison in Gibraltar, will today attempt to secure his release by claiming he is being illegally detained. |
| April start for GST, insists the Treasury |
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ISLANDERS will pay the goods and services tax from April - despite improving States finances and a delay to the introduction of income support. |
| Binge warning |
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YOUNG women who fail to grow out of binge-drinking risk death from liver disease before their 40th birthday, the Medical Officer of Health has warned. |
| Connex 'washed their hands' of hurt passenger |
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CONNEX have been accused of 'washing their hands' of an elderly woman who is still in hospital three weeks after being injured when a bus performed an emergency stop. |
| Rachael takes crown as Miss Junior Battle |
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ELEVEN-year-old Rachael Hermitage has been crowned as this year's Miss Junior Battle of Flowers. |
| Staff laid off as work goes to outside firms |
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A JERSEY building firm says it is having to lay off long-serving staff because major contracts are going to overseas companies employing foreign workers. |
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