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Daily Archives: November 5, 2008

Saving – for the benefit of the island

EARLY in the new year, States members will be faced with a report that sets out the hundreds of millions of pounds that the island needs to spend – some in short order simply to keep the airport operational – over the next few years.

Indirect tax rises are likely way to balance books

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With Guernsey’s Budget due later this week, Teodora Vallone, senior tax manager at Ernst & Young, looks at Treasury minister Charles Parkinson’s revenue-raising options and considers the impact a goods and services tax would have.

60 jobs at risk as NRGi looks at move to Holland

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A LEADING Guernsey business could quit the island with the loss of up to 60 jobs.

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Coach – ‘It will all end in tears’

FORMER island manager Alan Le Prevost has advice for the people behind Guernsey United: ‘Don’t waste your time.’

Drama on and off track as Beausire wins tiebreak

THE Fantasy Formula One competition was as close as the real thing.

Jensen hits her top form to finish fifth

KATHERINE JENSEN reached the quarter-finals of the Technofibre British Junior Squash Championships.

‘Staff safe’ as building societies join forces

STAFF locally are expected to keep their jobs despite news that the Skipton and Scarborough building societies are to merge in the UK.

Clarification sought over Darling’s ‘long hard look’

GUERNSEY is pressing the UK Government to find out if it wants to examine its relationship with the Crown Dependencies.

‘Local’ Americans also had their say

AMERICA yesterday elected its 44th president and for the first time chose a black man for the top job.

Christmas is coming and the high street’s going flat

THE credit crunch has started to bite on Guernsey’s high street, according to Tony Creasey.