Jersey’s government have voted though major plans to fill the island’s financial black hole.
They include a package of cutting public sector jobs, freezing pay and scrapping bonuses to find £145m each year until 2019.
Unions in Jersey say dark days are ahead after plans to slash £145 million from government spending were passed.
£70 million will be wiped from the public sector wage bill, meaning job cuts, outsourcing and pay freezes.
Last week, hundreds of public service users protested against the cuts.
The union Unite, who represent many of the workers, say the public sector will be decimated.
Deputy Doublet's amendment has been passed in the States, meaning education will receive an extra £260k investment next year.
Jersey States is currently debating how to save £145m. But where exactly is that saved money going to end up?
States members in Jersey will begin debating how to make hundreds of millions of pounds worth of cuts today.