Borrowing news


Politics is about more than ideas

HAVING taken advice from ‘the best brains in the business’, Treasury’s plans now lie in tatters.


States to go into debt to pay for £301m. list

THE £301m. wish list of projects such as a new secondary school, mental health facilities and upgrading the runway has survived.


Borrowing limits set

RULES that set limits on any States borrowing were agreed this morning.


The danger of deputies borrowing

PUBLICATION at the weekend of an alternative funding strategy aimed at providing money for a range of supposedly priority capital projects has done little to help focus deputies’ minds on the key issues.


Make the States listen to islanders

ONE of the more remarkable elements emerging from a G4: Looking Forward forum of the island’s four main business groups was an almost unanimous acceptance that bad things are going to happen, although no one wants them to.

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