Archive for May, 2011
Jersey Ministers meet Tony Blair and participate in business breakfast
Assistant Chief Minister, UK and International Relations, Freddie Cohen, and Economic Development Minister, Alan Maclean attended a business breakfast in London today (26 May), at which former PM and Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair and Portland Trust Chairman Sir Ronald Cohen discussed the importance of increasing trade with Israel and Palestine. En route back [...]
GARENNE GROUP ACQUIRES BESPOKE ARCHITECTURAL PRECAST CLADDING COMPANY
GARENNE Group has acquired UK cladding company Sterling Services after working with them on a number of projects across the Channel Islands. The company, which is based in Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of architectural precast concrete cladding. It has worked across the UK including projects in London, Bristol and [...]
Collas Crill to launch Singapore office
Collas Crill will become the first Channel Islands based law firm to open an office in Singapore. The firm will open its Singapore office in the third quarter of this year. The announcement comes just two months after Collas Crill was formed by the merger of Collas Day in Guernsey and Crill Canavan in Jersey. [...]
Chance to win free tickets to an England international at Wembley!
Jersey Dairy and the Jersey Football Association are offering free tickets to an England international at Wembley as an incentive to Island children to get active and healthy and to improve their ball skills. A competition ‘One Goal’ is being launched on 1% Fat half-litre Milk cartons inviting children to create an exercise using a [...]
A Circus guaranteed to give you nightmares….
The act that had the Britain’s Got Talent judges wanting more – The Circus of Horrors – will be coming to the Jersey Opera House in 2012!! With quotes such as ‘The Circus of Horrors completely WOWED the audience’ The Daily Mail, ‘That was fantastic, that’s what I call entertainment, I want to party with [...]
Ancient Archaeology Jersey Stepping Out Walk
Ancient Archaeology – Wander back in time with Olga Finch, Curator of Archaeology at Jersey Heritage on Saturday 11th June 2011 Walk back in time, 250,000 years! Discover more about the archaeology of the northwest corner of Jersey, in the Les Landes and Plèmont area. Highlights will include the ruins of a C14 Castle, Iron Age fortifications at [...]
Bedell Cristin’s outstanding client service secures award
Bedell Cristin was awarded the Offshore Client Service award at the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2011 which were held in Amsterdam recently. The Chambers awards are among the most prestigious in the legal calendar recognising outstanding law firms and legal professionals. The client service awards are determined following responses from clients and identify firms [...]
Charity seeks English teachers for short Indonesian school placements
THE Bukit Lawang Trust is offering qualified English teachers from the Channel Islands a chance to work in a Sumatran school for two months for what promises to be a life changing experience. Thanks to support from the Ana Leaf Foundation, The Bukit Lawang Trust (a Jersey registered charity) will recruit three English teachers who [...]
New Directors at Deutsche Bank Jersey
Deutsche Bank has made Tracy Clarke and Adam Buxton Directors within its Financial Intermediaries (FIM) business in Jersey as it targets further growth this year. In her expanded role, Tracy will focus on supporting the global financial intermediary business, taking on additional responsibility for strategy and service development for the FIM teams based in the [...]
Condor Ferries launches new café and Costa Coffee partnership
Islanders travelling on Condor’s fast ferries will be able to enjoy a fantastic coffee and sweet or savoury snack from Lat 49, the new onboard café. Condor has teamed up with Costa as part of its move to develop the onboard services on ferries serving the Channel Islands. The name, Lat 49, refers to the [...]
