FOR customers of Landsbanki Guernsey, Treasury’s call for a depositor compensation scheme will both justify their anger and irritate their grievances.
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‘New deal’ on funding has merit
GP Opinion
November 20, 2008 – 3:40 pm
ONE of Guernsey’s most highly regarded figures in the financial services arena has entered the debate on how the island should finance its multi-million pound list of urgent capital projects.
The code in the fiscal messageGP Opinion
November 19, 2008 – 2:55 pm
CONFIRMATION from the Treasury minister that the States cannot control its expenditure is a worrying admission, for clearly no organisation can operate effectively, efficiently or for the long term without being in charge of its costs. In addition, the minister’s honesty might be seen to raise issues of government credibility.
Too hard, so States won’t tackle itGP Opinion
November 18, 2008 – 2:25 pm
ANYONE who has followed the emergence of the island’s zero-10 taxation strategy, the latest Budget and now the comments of the Treasury minister published today will realise that something of a crossroads has been reached.
You pay, so they simply don’t careGP Opinion
November 17, 2008 – 1:48 pm
WHEN this newspaper criticised Treasury and Resources last week for abandoning any pretence of a policy of restraint in government spending, we did so on the basis of the department’s own 2009 Budget report and quoted some of the minister’s own words from the Billet d’Etat.
I’d like my 150 quid back, pleaseGP Opinion
November 15, 2008 – 9:30 am
NOT so many years ago, the chief question about retirement was how early an individual intended stopping work. Now, that same question is how long someone has to struggle on in order to fund a realistic pension.
The damage is in no way lessenedGP Opinion
November 14, 2008 – 2:48 pm
AS THE fallout from the blighted Jersey police investigation into historic child abuse continues, what is increasingly clear is that the two frontline casualties in the affair are trust and confidence. Sadly, the very people - the police - who are responsible for a catastrophic loss of public confidence are also the same people who […]
Everyone loses in this abuse caseGP Opinion
November 13, 2008 – 2:53 pm
A PARTICULARLY savage irony in yesterday’s admission by Jersey’s police that they have bungled key aspects of the investigation into allegations of historic child abuse in the island was the suggestion by the new deputy chief officer that what has been said and interpretations that have been made could prevent fair trials from going ahead […]
First step to becoming commercialGP Opinion
November 12, 2008 – 2:26 pm
AN ANNOUNCEMENT today that the Public Services Department is considering the commercialisation of the ports and Guernsey Water is an encouraging sign that at least some areas of the States are prepared to modify their thinking for changing circumstances.
Environment should back North plan
By Rob Batiste
WITH upwards of two dozen Priaulx League championships to their name and umpteen other trophies across the age-group competitions, North have been the island’s outstanding club side in more than a century of domestic football.