ASSISTANT Chief Minister Sir Philip Bailhache has waded into the debate about the controversial Lime Grove report, calling it ‘seriously flawed’ and ‘unfair’.
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A property portfolio too far?
ONE of the principal criticisms of ministerial government as it currently operates in this Island concerns the extent to which it concentrates too much political power in too few hands.
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Pondering the future of our ‘boomerang’ society
AS we end the year in reflective mood, we look back over the past 12 months in the hope that our expectations will be met in 2013.
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Deputy welcomes Treasury proposals on taxes
OPTIONS for taxing foreign-owned shops, developers and other non-finance companies which currently contribute nothing to the Treasury are a step in the right direction, says the Deputy who called for action to be taken.
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More UK fund managers ‘are thinking of coming to Jersey’
A LONDON finance conference was told that Jersey was working hard, and having success, in attracting new funds business to the Island.
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Things looking up for public purse
STATES finances are doing better than expected, with spending slightly down and income slightly up on forecasts.
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Wanted: A group of leaders who speak with one voice
NO article in the Guardian about Jersey was ever going to go well. They don’t like us and they have made no secret about it in recent years.
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Retailers ‘incensed’ by attack
BUSINESSES have hit back after the Treasury Minister dismissed the claim that it was always more expensive to do business in Jersey as an ‘urban myth’.
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Just a yellow card for Harry Houdini
WITH suitable expressions of contrition and a promise to be a good lad in the future, Philip Ozouf – otherwise known as the Harry Houdini of the Big House – seems to have escaped with a yellow card on this occasion.
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Doubts cast on Ozouf’s Lime Grove evidence
THE reliability of the Treasury Minister’s evidence during a review into the Lime Grove fiasco has been called into question by the Comptroller and Auditor General Chris Swinson.
