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THE global financial world is starting 2009 with a very firm eye to the future.

A JERSEY accountant arrested in connection with an alleged multi-million tax fraud in Australia will have to say whether he intends to fight extradition the next time he appears in the Magistrate’s Court.

ISLANDERS will soon be able to study for a foundation degree in information technology for business without having to leave Jersey.

JERSEY will host a three-nation under-18 football tournament at Springfield next month.

From the Rev Chris White. IT strikes me as odd that we make people wait 12 years before they can escape living every day in one small room for which some pay £500 per month.

COCAINE is the drug often associated in people’s minds with the millionaire lifestyle of film stars and fast-living City high flyers.

JERSEY has by far the lowest statutory minimum holiday period of anywhere in Europe, but the numbers could be about to rise.

TWO ten-year-olds have taken international honours at the European Kenpo Karate Championships in Hungary.

From Mike Truscott. IT was reported last week that Francis Le Gresley of Citizens Advice felt that we should not set a precedent in so far as the States of Jersey financially supporting/compensating the former Woolworths employees, citing that it would be unfair to others who have previously found themselves in a similar position.

THOUSANDS of phone lines went down last night causing frustration for shoppers and motorists trying to use credit cards to pay for food and fuel.