Hospitality industry begs for more support in letter to government
More than 100 hotels, bars and restaurants in Jersey have written to the Chief Minister begging for more financial support as they battle for survival amid a hospitality shutdown.
Five umbrella groups - Luxury Jersey Hotels, Liberation Group, Randalls, JP Restaurants and Dolan Hotels - are behind the letter, which says they have been left with "no other choice" but to write.
In it, they explain that being shut down for a second time will cost the industry "tens of millions of pounds in sales" and that, if it cannot re-open on 18 December, the government needs to better protect workers in the form of more financial support to give them "a fighting chance to rebuild when this crisis ends".
It finished by stressing just how damaging this could be for the industry's future.
The government has not yet responded.