GuernseyFinance board discusses ‘that’ email
Tuesday 1st December 2009, 2:29PM GMT.
THE GuernseyFinance board met yesterday to discuss an email chief executive Peter Niven sent to a deputy.
Board members including Commerce and Employment minister Carla McNulty Bauer met at lunchtime and gave Mr Niven (pictured) a chance to explain his 1am missive in which he claimed Deputy Gloria Dudley-Owen was ill-prepared for last week’s States debate about how the promotional body is funded.
GuernseyFinance released a short statement yesterday afternoon and an announcement on any action the board decides to take is expected tomorrow morning.
‘The GuernseyFinance board has met today to discuss the issues surrounding the chief executive’s email to Deputy Gloria Dudley-Owen ahead of last Wednesday’s States debate on the Guernsey Finance Funding Law.’
Mr Niven has come in for fierce criticism from deputies after he slammed Deputy Dudley-Owen for backing an amendment before seeking facts.
He claimed that she had missed opportunities to learn more about the agency and was not interested in the truth.
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I can understand how Mr Niven would be annoyed at someone blindly making a decision, I would be too. and to highlight the time the email was sent? What for? To show he works so hard he is up till 1am doing us a service? I commend him and his actions.
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Put it this way, Joshua.
Peter Niven is under extreme pressure because the old way of hiding money using his oft quoted ‘sophisticated’ techniques are being eroded by the systemic knowledge being forced out into the public sphere. He is having to solicit business with any old Thomas, Richard and Henry, providing that their mates in even more secret jurisdictions can tick a box in a timely fashion. Russian kleptocrats? Chinese embezzlers? Dubai liars? (good cartoon in the Telegraph: “don’t buy” being the punchline). Us?
Whatever the skill of our politicians, which is utterly irrelevant in this case, a proposition was tabled and seconded in the States to debate a raise in the finance industry’s input into its own promotion.
What’s the problem with that? If those politicians are incompetent then the debate is already lost. If they have a point then surely this raises the issue that whatever consultion GF have undertaken with our elected representatives has either been ignored or not understood.
Either way, a last minute request to make sure that our elected representatives feel secure that they are acting in their parishioners’ interests is good politics, not bad.
Whatever Niven’s qualities as a salesman for tax evaders, firing off this email from (maybe) a hotel room, is utterly unprofessional, insulting and needs chastisement.
He is lucky that he is paid by the public purse, paid indeed for servicing the minority rich, and he is lucky not to be able to be censured.
It is this arrogance that you are supporting ‘Joshua’, ‘named’ after the successor to Moses of the Ten Commandments.
I cannot cast any aspersions on Niven’s abilities to work into the night for the good of an industry that provides tax receipts for local services. People tend to forget that I spent a decade or so admiring various folks in the industry for their intelligence, ingenuity and dedication. It’s just not a good enough argument to slag off a plea for simple information.
I’m glad this has gone public. It really does highlight the mentality of the people who really own this island.
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Yes, it highlights a mentality, of contradictory statements, judgments based on name and race, quick fire remarks “probably from a hotel room” and long winded speeches with no point.
Are you saying the Russian are kleptocrats? Chinese are embezzlers? and Dubai are liars?
That’s very narrow minded.
If you are jumping on the band-waggon of “He is rich he is lining his own pocket” if it weren’t for Guernsey’s wealth, it would knock on to the lower end of the income pool and degrade our quality of life, that’s just basic economics. Tax evaders? I put it this way, if it is cheaper to buy a car in France then England do it, and if England wasn’t France to charge more for their cars, what are they to tell them to do so? This Island provides a quality service, supported by thousands of local employees, whom are payed well and thus add to the collective pool, and Peter Niven is look out for us, our jobs, and our backs. As ignorance is less than bliss.
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Its a pity Mr Niven didnt make more comments on things like Landsbanski,Investec kenyan arms,Equitable Life Scandal,Split capital trusts and warrants were people lost millions of pounds. large scale mis selling and money laundering events that have arisen in Guernsey
Or is he not aware of them ?
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Murdering Suharto cash, Kaupthing loans, EBTs, FLPs, MG Rover, PE rape of the UK companies, assisted evasion, abusive avoidance, chief minister’s lies on EU code of Conduct, our non transparency, GFSC incompetence, FATF violations of CDD info.
i could go on, and probably will do.
All he cares about is a request for information from a well meaning Deputy.
Shame that doesn’t work for HMRC.
Well done Michael Milfleur.
We are shameful.
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Joshua
Don’t bother.
Do you read the papers?
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Joshua
Why are HMRC requesting that those who have been assisted with non disclosure from banks in Guernsey are part of ‘basic economics’?
Are you for real?
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I would not thank Peter Niven to quick.
It was a great help of the British tax payer to put in 850 billion, so that the banks did not go bust and jobs were saved.
I think one of the questions asked, which Deputy Dudly-Owen only found out very late.
Why were most of the financial institutions not even asked to contribute?
I would also add that even deputies are only given very little information, it is never voluntarily offered. It is like trying to get a Ormer off a rock, when you have already touched it or prising a conger out of its crevice.
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