News Summary

• Deputy Gerald Voisin said minimum wage was "strangling our economy" Chief minister said his views did not reflect that of the government or States Assembly.
• Coffee shop owner Frank De Jesus said the cost of living and of doing business in Jersey were a "far-reaching issue" He has called on the council of ministers to "get their act together" and discuss workers' pay.
• Head of the poverty charity Caritas said the minister's comments were "very sinister" The chamber of commerce interim president Eliot Lincoln said he did not want the minimum wage to be scrapped but believed it could not continue to rise in the way it had in previous years.