A lonely death on Jersey
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As a tax haven Jersey has a reputation for welcoming the wealthy with open arms, but how does it treat other kinds of immigrants? Jane Kiiti came from Kenya to work in Jersey’s hotels for more than twenty years. Her death raises questions about the conditions migrant workers face and whether the island is doing enough to prevent their exploitation.
You can read Orlando Crowcroft's article 'The never-ending fear that haunts Jersey's troubled migrant workers' here.
Reporter: Orlando Crowcroft
Producer: Ada Barumé
Artwork: Blythe Walker Sibthorpe
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:40.3 | As we're approaching Jersey, the sea felt sign, we switch on a |
| 0:47.3 | hot to be 15 minutes time. |
| 0:49.3 | It always feels strange coming back to this place. |
| 0:53.3 | I wasn't born here, but for better or worse, it's where I'm from. |
| 0:57.0 | I grew up on the island and I spent my formative years here. |
| 1:01.0 | When I tell people that, they tend to laugh and say, |
| 1:04.0 | really? |
| 1:05.0 | And I say, yeah, and they ask, |
| 1:07.0 | don't you need to have a million quid to live there? |
| 1:09.0 | And I say, it's complicated. |
| 1:12.6 | But it isn't that complicated, is it? |
| 1:15.6 | Jersey has a reputation as a wealthy person's playground, and it's perfectly happy with that. |
| 1:21.6 | But like anywhere, there are the haves and the have-nots. |
| 1:28.8 | You don't tend to see the multi-millionaires on the early morning weekday flight from |
| 1:32.4 | Gatwick. |
| 1:33.6 | They tend to arrive by private jet. |
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