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1 week ago | 
bailiwickexpress.com | Megan Davies
Jersey’s courts are likely to impose higher sentences for rape in the future after a new judgment revealed that punishments have previously been too lenient. The recently-published document also shed light on how the courts are planning to sentence rapists from now on. It comes after Gavin Neil Roberts was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of offences against three women last year.
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1 week ago | 
bailiwickexpress.com | Megan Davies
A Jerseywoman who moved to a beautiful French mountain range – and became an English teacher to adult learners in the community – is looking for islanders who can host visitors during an exchange. Penny Setubal lived in Jersey until 2018, when she moved to the Chartreuse region, a part of the French Prealps. Penny said: “After settling into my new home, I felt a strong desire to give something back to the local community and to find a meaningful way to connect with those around me.
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1 week ago | 
bailiwickexpress.com | Megan Davies
A newly-formed LGBTQ+ choir is looking to celebrate how far Jersey has come from a time of occupation to its current vibrant and accepting nature – on Liberation Day and beyond. Scholar and artist Adam Perchard started the island’s first LGBTQ+ choir when Jersey Arts Centre asked them to put together a show to mark 80 years of liberation this May.
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1 week ago | 
jerseyeveningpost.com | Megan Davies
By Dennis SaleThe term agency has gained increasing attention as educators and researchers emphasise the importance of providing students with a greater sense of ownership and competence in their learning journeys. Equally, agency has relevance to anyone who seeks to become more self-directed, confident, and be able to adapt to the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
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1 week ago | 
bailiwickexpress.com | Megan Davies
The Bishop of Portsmouth has apologised and expressed his “deepest sorrow” for the abuse perpetrated by a former Jersey Catholic priest. Piotr Antoni Glas was convicted of three counts of committing gross indecency against a child earlier this week. The 61-year-old – who was known as Peter when his name was anglicised – was a parish priest in Jersey in the early 2000s.
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1 week ago | 
cp24.com | Suzanne McGee |Megan Davies |Diane Craft
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Trillions of dollars in market prices alternately have been wiped off and added back to portfolios, leading to high anxiety among investors and a move by some to dial down risky positions as they wait to see how the Trump administration's policy on tariffs shakes out. The rollercoaster ride of the last week has been nerve wracking for both retail and institutional investors.
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1 week ago | 
jerseyeveningpost.com | Megan Davies
A BISHOP has apologised for the sexual abuse carried out by a Catholic priest against a child in Jersey and claimed “robust” safeguards are in place in the church. Philip Egan, the Bishop of Portsmouth, was commenting following the conviction of Piotr Glas, a former parish priest in the Island – which falls under the Diocese of Portsmouth. Glas was this week found guilty of three counts of committing gross indecency against a child following a seven-day trial in the Royal Court.
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2 weeks ago | 
jerseyeveningpost.com | Megan Davies
By Lindsay AshSO, I left you last week with the new government all set to be formed and it had little to do as far as the new hospital was concerned. It had planning permission, a price, a contractor and a method of funding it – although they’d have had to move swiftly and the rate was nearer 3%. Just blow the whistle for the start and the Island could have a shiny new hospital by 2026, all neatly in one place and all acceptable to the vast majority of practitioners.
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2 weeks ago | 
bailiwickexpress.com | Megan Davies
A former Catholic priest has been found guilty of three counts of committing acts of gross indecency towards a child to satisfy his “foot fetish”. After a seven-day trial and around sixhours of deliberation, a jury found that Piotr Antoni Glas (61) had abused a child by holding his face to the child’s feet while masturbating on a number of occasions.
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2 weeks ago | 
jerseyeveningpost.com | Megan Davies
A CATHOLIC priest with a “foot fetish” has been convicted of committing multiple acts of gross indecency against a child. Following a seven-day trial in the Royal Court and two days of deliberation, a jury found that Piotr Antoni Glas (61) abused the child. Jurors returned guilty verdicts on three of the counts Glas faced and acquitted him of two. A further three charges were thrown out by the court earlier in the trial.
