A UKRAINIAN bomb disposal expert is one of the guests speaking in Jersey next week, as part of a series of events held to mark the country’s Independence Day.Uliana Yurenko, a Ukrainian national who delivers bomb disposal training in the country, i.
THE government has acknowledged Islanders’ frustration that Jersey driving licences are not valid in Spain.
Although the UK and Spain recently reached an agreement to recognise each other’s driving licences, Jersey and other Crown Dependencies.
Mar 13, 2021
GUERNSEY has announced plans to reopen its borders over the coming months as it continues to ease its way out of the islandwide lockdown measures introduced in January.
Guernsey Airport
While non-essential travel to the island is likely to be permitted from 22 March, arriving passengers will have to complete a fortnight’s mandatory isolation until 30 April, when a risk-based classification scheme is set to be reintroduced.
The ‘Bailiwick Blueprint’ document includes plans to fully reopen Guernsey’s borders, ‘subject to public-health concerns’, on ‘1 July 2021 or later’.
Although Jersey’s roadmap towards normality was outlined by ministers on 5 March, decisions on border policy were put off. Further discussions by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell are due to take place on Monday, and the final decision from ministers is likely to be announced later in the week.
Feb 16, 2021
THE widow of a man killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning has launched a campaign in Jersey schools to raise awareness of the dangers posed by the gas.
The scene of the incident in February 2017 which was attended by paramedics, police and the coastguard. Picture: ROB CURRIE. (30237318)
On the fourth anniversary of her husband Ken’s death, Margaret Jeffery has joined forces with UK charity CO-Gas Safety to warn primary school children of the dangers posed by carbon monoxide.
‘I thought that a good place to start would be educating children because, as a retired primary school teacher, I’m aware that children are very good at educating their parents and nagging them. A distribution company in the UK, Cadent Gas, has made a fantastic offer to extend their educational videos and activity packs to Jersey. It is a great offer and the kids would love them,’ she said.