Finance expertise may play role in the developing world
Tuesday 28th September 2010, 3:00PM BST.
Deputy Gorst
JERSEY can play a significant role in helping developing countries, according to Jersey Overseas Aid chairman Deputy Ian Gorst.
The Deputy has just spent two days at a United Nations summit on ‘Millennium Development Goals’ in New York and says that the Island can play a big role in lending financial and legislative expertise.
The summit focused on what has to happen to meet the 2015 deadline for the UN goals on, among other things, achieving the ambitious targets set in 2000 which cover halving the population of people living on less than $1 per day, offering full primary education to children, reducing child mortality rates by 66%, halting and reversing the spread of Aids and reducing biodiversity losses.
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Whereas the bunch of nay-sayers usually posting here would want Jersey to rid itself of the Finance industry… Thankfully that lot don’t have the fingers anywhere near the levers!
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Get your own house in order first , or are you not prepared to disclose to the UN that a fifth of Jersey’s population live on the bread-line!!!
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Yeah! thats right Ian, you go tech the world how to circumvent, avoid, obfuscate and protect the few from the many.
Never before was so much owed by so few to so many. Offshore rules ok? yeah?
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Oh G**, the last thing the developing world needs is Gorst.
Spot on Mogit! This is the classic symbol of failed government. Waste money on pointless overseas junkets so as to avoid address your failures at home!
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Overseas aid? Are we not talking about the 2015 deadline for the UN, excuse my ignorance but is Jersey in the UN? If so I do not apologise for the following.First our so called goverment should look closer to home and its population. What a waste of money going to New York, wonder if Deputy Gorst paid for the trip out of his own wage I doubt it, this is States business so we the taxpayer pay. As with all the third world countries I take it that is what we are talking about, dating back to the sixties, one can give money hand over fist but if that goverment of that country can not be bothered to look after their own people then I am sorry, but no matter what the western world can try and do its to no avail.
OK I wait for the backlash.
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