Comments on: Seigneur is challenged over 114 directorships in Panama

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:50:30 +0000

I understand it is called appeasement Sark resident – I seem to remember a similar attitude did not work in the 1930′s, as indeed it didn’t work for Sark when faced with a similar take over bid.

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By: Barklees-R-Us

Barklees-R-Us — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:33:35 +0000

It looks to me that Mr (?) Delaney is busy learning how to troll…for shame sir, you haven’t passed your “real local news, reporting thereof” exam yet…stay behind afterwards.

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By: Sark resident

Sark resident — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:15:17 +0000

If brecqhou is a sark tenement did they go to the dcc to get permission to build the castle, the harbour, the helipad and bunker, the chapel and the numerous other buildings. Why can’t we moor in the harbour and have a beer in the pub.

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By: guern abroad

guern abroad — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:56:24 +0000

I don’t think it is quite that simple, it all looks like trying to gain manipulative control for own means and badly disguised at that.

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By: Len

Len — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:46:15 +0000

Sarc Astec
For a moment there I thought you were talking about Guernsey’s Government.

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By: Len

Len — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:41:57 +0000

Wrong, Bored now, you must be pretty boring yourself if that’s all you visit Sark for.

There is a great deal of interest in Sark’s future as many of us do not want to see Sark ruined by by a couple of multi millionaires and their lackey. They have the capability of doing so much good, but that will never work if it always has to be on their terms. Let Sark move at it’s own pace, it has done for hundreds of years.

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By: Sarc Astec

Sarc Astec — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:53:04 +0000

Bored Now, I think you have a point. I find it impossible to take the Sark government seriously as each time they make the news my mind drifts to that wonderful T.V. programme, the Vicar of Dibley. As the village Council argue around the table I can’t help seeing Chief Pleas in full flow! If true Sarkees want to keep the very special things that, in their opinion, make Sark what it is today then they must bite their tongues and keep their heads below the parapet. Trying to publicly take on those with immensly deep pockets who wish to drag the island into the 21st century will only result in giving them what they want.

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By: Bored now

Bored now — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:51:08 +0000

No ones interested.

Sark’s only reason for visiting was smoking in pubs and cheap booze. Time our most easterly Parish mans up or shuts up.

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By: Sark Watcher

Sark Watcher — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:55:51 +0000

Happy Christmas everyone … and gird your loins for 2013.

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By: Musty

Musty — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:27:57 +0000

Bee – if anyone needs evidence of the SNL’s capacity to be defiant and shameless – and simply laugh and blow raspberries at anyone that wishes to engage in a grown-up discussion, the matter you raise is a shining beacon of prime confrontational hypocrisy.

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By: Bee

Bee — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:36:48 +0000

Mr. Delaney look no further than your own sub-editor for directorships signed off by the thousands literally over the years. 114 pales into insignificance in comparison.

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By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:36:16 +0000

From time to time, someone here posts a suggestion not to take an SNL broadside seriously – along the lines of “ignore it and it will go away”.

I can only imagine these remarks come from MoJ insiders doing their best to try and stave off the consequences of admitting the awkward probability that a rampant SNL is costing the Sark economy real jobs and hard-to-establish credibility.

There is only ONE organisation on Sark that doesn’t need to care what potential incoming business investors think, because it already owns and controls an effectively monopoly of the Island’s commercial life.

Even if we divide Delaney’s preposterous viewing statistics by 100, that’s 20,000 people who might now think that Sark is a cross between Dodge City and Buchenwald.

And for those who are in conflict with the SEM/SNL – such efforts to play down the SNL’s effects and significance are like describing the Black Plague as a “mere sniffle”.

Let’s get real in 2013.

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By: Forest

Forest — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:17:59 +0000

Kevin while you’re at it perhaps you could also look into your employers affairs too I’m sure that would throw up a few interesting revelations.

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By: GM

GM — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:32:08 +0000

Not jealous at all. Unlike them, I understood the risks. There is no such thing as a “nominee director”. They are still on the hook today for activities of companies that they are blissfully unaware of. The knock on the door could come at any time. Unfortunately a defence of “but I was only a nominee” will get them nowhere.

Back in those days they were charging £200 per company per annum. Although it was known as The Sark Lark it was no “lark” at all. It was an out and out sham and the GFSC were absolutely right to close it down in Sark. As Panorama showed, it simply drove these idiots to poorly regulated jurisdictions elsewhere.

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By: DB

DB — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:38 +0000

I am pretty certain it is the BVI.

Does anyone disagree? (Kevin?) Sadly, the BVI registry does not appear to have a public online lookup: http://www.bvifsc.vg

And who said anything about paying tax? They cannot possibly make a profit!

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