THE exceptional standards at this year’s Commonwealth Youth Games in India are all too obvious for Jersey’s young athletes.
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Daily Archives: October 16, 2008
As good as his words
From Cathy Eglington.
WELL done to Daniel Wimberley in choosing environment-friendly election banners.
An architectural winner, at last …
AT last a Jersey building has won a national award – but it is unlikely that anyone will bother to collect it.
Tax aid needed for film makers
FINANCIAL incentives will need to be offered if film producers are to be attracted to Jersey, a seminar audience was told last week.
Nerina makes a new move in the capital
JERSEY’S own singing sensation swapped the microphone for her running shoes last week to take part in London’s first half marathon, Run to the Beat.
Le Marquand judged the best
POLITICAL newcomer Ian Le Marquand, the former Magistrate, swept to the top of the poll and a likely new job as Home Affairs Minister in a Senatorial election which also saw Education Minister Mike Vibert lose his seat last night.
To ask Europe for extension of savings guarantees smacks of brass-necked cheek
From Richard Murphy, Tax Justice Network UK.
I NOTE that Jersey is to ask major European banking centres to extend savings guarantees to Jersey to protect depositors in the offshore finance industry on which the Island’s economy depends (JEP, 11 October).
Clements on his mettle
PAUL Clements has conquered the heat in Hawaii to complete a gruelling ironman triathlon at the Ford World Championships.
A new face but no revolution
YESTERDAY’S Senatorial election was remarkable for two principal reasons — Ian Le Marquand’s outstanding poll-topping performance and the electorate’s failure to embrace the idea that establishment figures should be ousted in favour of a new breed of politician implacably opposed to current policies.