AS STATES members and the business community were being briefed yesterday on the consequences of zero-10 having been torpedoed by a combination of EU hostility and politically-inspired capitulation by the UK just when it should have been representing our interests, there was one clear positive emerging from the mess.
KLEINWORT BENSON’S future in the island looks secure today after its sale to a new parent company was concluded.
ISLAND boss Tony Vance was not at Northfield on Wednesday but he will have learned already that he now has one more very viable goalkeeping alternative.
CORPORATION tax rates will need to rise to 10 or 12.5%, according to Chief Minister Lyndon Trott.
A FORMER member of the Health and Social Services board was jailed yesterday for eight weeks.
MORE than 250 people tried to buy a piece of Sark’s history yesterday.
THOUSANDS flocked to Guernsey’s latest fashion store yesterday.
INSPIRED perhaps by Heather Watson’s success, more than 50
RAIN ruined the end of Phil Guillou’s 250 GP British Championship.
Taxing times ahead – but don’t let us ignore the potential of a positive outcome
A FEW weeks ago I wrote that Guernsey’s zero-10 tax regime faced a potential Exocet from powerful countries objecting to anybody charging a zero rate of corporation tax.