2024 news

The Jersey Lunar New Year Festival returns to St Helier from Saturday 10 to Saturday 24 February with a range of multicultural events and activities

​Statistics Jersey have today published the results of the December 2023 Business Tendency Survey.

Two men who conspired to commit fraud amounting to £3.3million have been sent to prison by the Royal Court of Jersey.

Public Health will be holding extra MMR vaccine clinics ahead of the half-term break for children who are not up to date with their vaccine schedule.

Children who are aged 12 and 13 in Year 8 are being offered the HPV vaccine from the end of January.

A decision by the European Commission has ensured that personal data can continue to freely flow to and from Jersey with the EU without any further safeguards.

Statistics Jersey have today published the December 2023 Retail Prices Index report.

Health and Community Services (HCS) have today published the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) independent review of the Rheumatology Service.

Health and Community Services has appointed Roslyn Bullen-Bell as its new Director of Midwifery and Nursing in Jersey.

The Government of Jersey and States of Guernsey have begun the first stage of a process for procuring a new long-term operating agreement for freight and passenger ferry services.

A 23-year-old man from Scarborough has been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months imprisonment for the importation of cocaine and ketamine, with a combined street value of £11,300.

On 12 January 2024 the Royal Court granted the Attorney General's application to forfeit approximately US$8.9 million of tainted property deposited into a Jersey bank account by Nigerian companies.

The Health and Community Services Learning Disability Service are partnering with Highlands College for a second year to teach adults with learning disabilities to read and write.

The law is the next major step in the crucial mission to ensure that all children and young people in Jersey will grow up safely, learn and achieve, live healthy lives, and be listened to.

The latest release from Statistics Jersey indicates that there are currently 720 jobseekers actively registered for work, a number consistently lower than in previous years, thanks to the ongoing efforts of the Back to Work team.

The registered unemployment report for the fourth quarter 2023 has been published today by Statistics Jersey.

The Minister for Health and Social Services, Deputy Karen Wilson, and Health and Community Services has praised two senior leaders in Health for their work.

The Chief Minister has outlined the Council of Ministers’ five immediate priorities for 2024.

The Chief Minister outlines the work of Government in a speech to the Chamber of Commerce

This year’s event, which will run each evening from Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 February (6pm-9pm), is themed around the four elements: earth, wind, water and fire.

The Revenue Jersey online personal tax return will be available from Monday 15 January at gov.je/mytaxreturn.

Teams from Infrastructure and Environment have been out since 2am salting Jersey’s main roads.

The Tactical Co-ordination Group (TCG) convened this afternoon to discuss the impending weather conditions forecasted by Jersey Met.

Children and young people need to be seen as children first rather than as perpetrators. That’s the message from the Safeguarding Partnership Board (SPB) ...

The Jersey Met Office has issued orange warnings for ice and snow across Jersey and the other Channel Islands.

The Minister for the Environment has published the fourth quarter update of the Planning Services Improvement Plan

Jersey Met has issued a yellow alert for snow and a yellow ice warning.

Women and people with a cervix who are aged between 25 and 64 are encouraged to opt-in and book their free cervical screening test this January, as part of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

Health and Community Services have a range of undergraduate degree programmes available to study at the HCS Education Centre in Jersey.

The recruitment process for a new Chair for the Fiscal Policy Panel has started.

A 55-year-old man from London has been sentenced to six years and four months imprisonment for the importation of 57.36 grams of cocaine.

Jersey Met has provided an update at 3pm on weather conditions for today, Thursday 4 January 2024.

Following the resignation of Deputy Tom Binet as Minister for Infrastructure, the Chief Minister is temporarily discharging the functions of the Minister in accordance with the States of Jersey Law.

Jersey College Preparatory School has been reviewed as part of the Jersey Schools Review Framework.

Jersey Met has provided an update on the expected severe weather conditions for today, Thursday 4 January 2024.

Work to resurface parts of Green Street and Mount Bingham starts on Monday (8 January).

Provisional figures from Jersey Met show that the average temperature in Jersey during 2023 was 13.34 degrees Celsius.

A new Visitor Economy Strategy for Jersey has been published, setting out the long-term vision, goals and priorities that need to be addressed for the continuing success of the tourism and hospitality sectors in the Island.

Islanders who want to quit smoking in 2024 are being encouraged to increase their chances by using Jersey’s free stop smoking service, Help2Quit.