JERSEY rider Hayley Waters has the distinction of being the only Islander to have passed the Pony Club’s A test within the past ten years and one of only six in the whole of Great Britain during the past 12 months.
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Daily Archives: August 20, 2008
Paying the price of others’ greed
IT’S an incontrovertible fact that finance underpins everything we have and do. In a society which has abandoned barter, exchanging goods and services for money and maximising profit on exiting assets is the basis of our economic growth.
A contrite firm would have cleared this up
From Christopher Davey.
THE news that Ged Sparks Plant Hire are being investigated for ‘possible illegal dumping at sea’ is more than welcome and long overdue.
The man who stayed after the tsunami struck
AARON Le Boutillier is not the first man to write a book as a cathartic process but when you know the subject matter it seems even more understandable than most.
Getting the point across
IN the last couple of months we have heard that police officers may soon have the ability to walk into schools and search children for blades.
Begbies Traynor expand office into Guernsey
INSOLVENCY specialists Begbies Traynor are expanding their Jersey office into Guernsey.
Jersey made to work hard to beat French
JERSEY beat both the rain and the French by 67 runs at Port Soif yesterday to stay on course for a title showdown with Guernsey on Saturday.
Five years for heroin widow
A DESPERATE widow smuggled more than £225,000 worth of heroin into Jersey after joining a Portuguese drugs gang to escape a life of poverty.
Bourgoise’s county title
A LEVEL-par round of 72 took Jerseyman Vic Bourgoise to the Hampshire Seniors Championship title last week.
Preparing for a U-turn over GST
WHEN the Island’s goods and services tax was introduced in May it was understood that it would be levied at three per cent across the board to minimise complicated bureaucracy and, therefore, the cost of collecting what was due. It was also argued that the fewer the complications, the lower the rate at which the […]