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THERE are more than 14,000 volunteers at the Commonwealth Games making the occasion run as smoothly as possible.

EDUCATION'S free nursery provision is inequitable and threatening the viability of private sector pre-school care, according to the Constable of St Helier.

THE Transport Minister is today calling on Islanders to go green and share cars on journeys to and from work.

THE States police have changed the way they handle gun permits and have reminded parish Constables that they (the Constables) have the ultimate responsibility to decide the suitability of someone to own guns.

STATES departments had £9.7m left over at the end of last year which will be reallocated for 2006.

ZURICH Financial Services, formerly known to Island clients as Eagle Star, are withdrawing their Channel Islands personal pension plan products from Jersey on 16 June.

THE headline proposal in Gordon Brown's latest Budget which affects our finance industry is the removal of the stamp duty land tax exemption when UK property is transferred into a newly formed unit trust in consideration of the issue of units. This puts an end to one of the main fiscal benefits of using Jersey private unit trusts, often called JPUTs.

OMEGA Financial Services have produced a guide to investing in commercial property.

ALTHOUGH the Cayman Islands remain at the forefront of the hedge fund sector and continue to take a large share of the global market, there are signs that the Channel Islands are challenging this position.