ANY local businessman who doesn’t take account of the dramas unfolding in the eco-nomies of the UK and around the world would be very foolish. But he would be equally foolish to take recent events too seriously.
Comment
RSS
It is time to work alongside Guernsey
October 14, 2008 – 3:00 pm
AS time goes by so I become more convinced of the logic of Jersey and Guernsey co-operating much more closely, perhaps even developing a Federation of the Channel Islands or a Channel Islands Economic Community.
It’s not the end of the world, is it?
September 30, 2008 – 3:00 pm
HAVING watched and read some of the media reports about the crisis on Wall Street, I wondered if it was worth writing a column at all this week. Some pundits obviously believe that we’re all doomed.
Still waiting for that renaissance …
September 16, 2008 – 4:45 pm
IT obviously comes with the job, but the Economic Development Minister exudes confidence when talking about Jersey’s economy.
Counsel to Council: Stick to your guns
September 2, 2008 – 3:00 pm
After recent radio moan-ins and Letters to the Editor, I have some advice for the Council of Ministers: pack up your briefcases, go home and do nothing.
Academic argument adds to confusion
August 12, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IN the latest edition of Business Brief, Guernsey-based columnist Peter Porter asks: ‘When does what Jersey’s Chief Minister described as a significant advance in the development of the Island’s international personality become what the Guernsey Press described as a dodgy deal?’
That was a funny old month, July
August 5, 2008 – 3:00 pm
JULY was a funny month. First of all, we had the cost-cutting Public Accounts Committee complaining that the States weren’t spending enough money.
They made the easy (and wrong) choice
July 22, 2008 – 3:00 pm
SO we’ve lost another 60 vergées of countryside. That’s about 1.2m square feet of land or the equivalent of 20 football pitches.
A small step for independence
July 8, 2008 – 3:00 pm
The recent report by the Constitutional Review Group is an interesting but curious document.
We can’t do tourism on the cheap
HAVING just had a few days’ break in Morocco, my mind naturally turns to tourism.