TOWN traders yesterday rejected suggestions that empty shops meant that St Peter Port was in trouble.
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Daily Archives: April 16, 2009
Letter is ‘notice of closure’ for finance industry
A UK government-ordered report into Guernsey as an offshore centre will prepare the island for a post-tax haven existence, it has been claimed.
Hooper caught out
DAVE HOOPER is being made a scapegoat according to Vale Rec manager Tony Smith.
Parish service ‘is harmed’ by Cobo car park van ruling
ISLANDERS’ willingness to take on voluntary parish roles was said to have been jeopardised yesterday after a judgement was formally made against a Castel constable in the Petty Debts Court.
LGM’s work finally pays off
CAPTAIN Nigel Mallet cannot wait for his La Grande Mare side to feature in the Guernsey final of the Hampshire Sevens.
Weysom claims top mullet award for fifth time
FOR the fifth time in the event’s 23-year history Mike Weysom has won the top award in the open mullet competition organised by the Guernsey Mullet Club and sponsored by Mick’s Fishing Supplies.
PM’s warning ‘no threat to island’
GUERNSEY does not partake in the sort of ‘unacceptable’ tax avoidance that Gordon Brown wants to stamp out, according to KPMG executive director Tony Mancini.
Targeted by Customs just because I’m a lone blonde
A WOMAN claims she was targeted by Customs officers at the airport because she is blonde.
Alderney tidal power money sparks storm
ANGRY Alderney States members have heaped criticism on the island’s tidal power spending plans.
What if it were my money?
A PROMINENT campaigner against global tax abuse and the role allegedly played in it by the Crown Dependencies has predicted that the forthcoming report by the Foot Commission imposed on the islands by the UK’s Chancellor will set the scene for these offshore islands to have a post tax haven existence. The trade Guernsey now [...]