Commerce and Employment minister Carla McNulty Bauer at the Institute of Directors final winter seminar held at the Duke of Richmond yesterday.

GREATER co-operation between Guernsey and Jersey from a business perspective could bring savings in many areas, it was claimed yesterday.

The matter was the topic for discussion at the final winter seminar of the season of Institute of Director’s Guernsey branch, sponsored by Yorkshire Guernsey.

IoD committee member and panel chairman Mark Palfrey said people at the event at the Duke of Richmond Hotel had viewed co-operation as a good move.

He said the time was right for debate to be followed with action that would be considered and beneficial.

‘If each island is prosperous you could argue against change,’ he said.

‘But there are different pressures on both islands now and we have to find areas to make efficiencies and then deliver them or we won’t succeed.’

Guest speakers were Commerce and Employment Minister Carla McNulty Bauer; Jersey Senator Paul Routier, assistant to his island’s chief minister; and pan-island company Spearpoint chief executive officer John Davey.

Deputy McNulty Bauer said States’ costs were increasing and the time had come to look on problems and obstacles as challenges and opportunities.