FAMILIES need at least 20% more to live here than their counterparts in the UK.

INFLATION is predicted to remain at a ‘comfortable’ level for the rest of the year.

ISLANDERS should brace themselves for a sharp hike in the cost of living this year.

GUERNSEY’S economy shows no sign of recovery, according to inflation figures released yesterday.

CHIEF MINISTER Lyndon Trott has responded to concerns about proposals to set Guernsey’s own inflation target.

OVER the last few days, Comment has looked at some of the implications of the 3% minimum pay deal struck with around 2,500 States employees and also at the wider implications of payroll costs on the States’ professed policy of public spending restraint.

WITH Guernsey’s RPI at an all-time low, islanders might have anticipated that the steadily increasing cost of government which they have to fund might, finally, start to slow.

THE news yesterday that Guernsey’s rate of inflation has fallen dramatically from 5.8% to just 1.2% in a space of three months will be taken as evidence of how badly the credit crunch has affected the economy here and elsewhere.

MORE than half a year after they should have had a pay rise, Guernsey’s 1,000 manual staff know that they are to receive a 5% increase plus enhancements that lifts the settlement above the RPI threshold. It is not the near-8% the union side was demanding but islanders will consider it a pretty fair deal [...]

INFLATION is down to 4.7% - a fall of 0.1% since March.