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A new low for Manx politics?
After three long drawn out days, which at times seemed a lot longer, the February sitting of Tynwald has finally drawn to a close.
The President
Letter to the Editor - Swine flu (non) pandemic
Dear sir, My reason for wishing to enter a letter in the Manx Herald was to alert the general public to a number of interesting ...Letter to the Editor: Friday 13th - Not a lucky day for the Kaupthing directors?
The Tynwald Select Committee - inquiring into the collapse of the Kaupthing IoM bank - questioned the bank's directors on Friday 13th November. In front of ...Letter to the Editor – Corruption in the IOM OFT
Dear Sir, I would be obliged if you would publish an open letter sent to Mr P Gelling, Acting Chief Officer of the Isle of Man ...Spotlight falls on Bell and Brown for response to the Island’s VAT receipt crisis
News that the UK Treasury has been in negotiations with the IOM authorities on a revision to the VAT revenue sharing agreement has certainly caused ...Letter to the Editor – KSF(IOM) collapse: No wrong doing in the IOM?
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the collapse of KSFIoM John Aspden, Chief of the Financial Supervision Commission, spoke these smug words on ...Letter to the Editor – “Not one British saver lost a penny”
In his keynote address to the Labour Party Conference Gordon Brown said those very words: "Not one British saver lost a penny" in the financial ...Letter to the Editor – The blind set out to lead the blind on the Isle of Man
Recently government officials from 24 small nations visited the Isle of Man as part of the Small Countries Financial Management Programme. Senior officials of central ...Letter to the Editor - It's time to address moral failures in the Isle of Man
On 18 September Paul Myners, Financial Services Secretary, addressed the Financial Times Global Finance Forum on the topic: Developing a new financial architecture: lessons learned ...Letter to the Editor – KSF (IOM) DCS ‘cock-up’
The Kaupthing Singer Friedlander (IOM) Limited Depositors' Compensation Scheme is another cock-up for the IoM. Nearly 11 months after the demise of the Kaupthing bank Allan ...
Log in
- UK PM wants greater tax transparency in crown dependencies
- Liberal Vannin to establish Island-wide ‘Youth Forum’
- PAG presents: "Tax Havens Today and Tomorrow" - a public debate on this topical and controversial issue
- Action for punitive damages commenced against two Government Departments and General Registry for ‘Malfeasance in Public Office’
- KSF IOM gets another reprieve but DCS exposed as a financial ‘fig leaf’
- Deemster Corlett gives in to Treasury – KSF (IOM) SoA to be put to creditors’ vote
- PAG Meeting calls for heavy fines for misuse or loss of personal data
- Kaupthing Bank ‘Show us the money’ petition launched on UK PM’s website
- Gelling: KSF (IOM) collapse - like standing on a pedestrian crossing and being run down by a lorry
- KSF (IOM) DAG unconvinced voting ‘Yes’ to SoA is best option
- KSF (IOM) depositors call on Jack Straw to broker deal for return of £550m held in UK
- KSF IOM gets another reprieve but DCS exposed as a financial ‘fig leaf’
- Deemster Corlett gives in to Treasury – KSF (IOM) SoA to be put to creditors’ vote
- Call to ‘nationalize’ KSF IOM
- New action group targets IOM fund industry and regulators for criticism
Shafted in The isle of Man
on
12 March, 2010 10:22:06
So basically if you deposit your money on the Isle of Man, you can say Goodbye to it. It's gone forever, no one on ...
Detective Inspector Bucket - Shrewd, relentless, but amiable and thoughtful
on
10 March, 2010 07:20:53
Two possible explanations;
1. The Isle of Man regulatory authorities are institutionally naïve and inept and like rabbits fumbling in a dazzle are unprepared and ill-equipped ...
R Kerr
on
10 March, 2010 06:50:58
Yet more flannel from another Director of the bank. More questions must be asked as clearly people & staff knew the bank was in bother ...
steve servaes
on
10 March, 2010 05:12:36
The question for the government is whether it is in the long term interest of the Isle of Man to (a) accept the FSC is ...
Josia Tulkinghorn (Mr)
on
09 March, 2010 06:24:06
More babbling flannel premeditated to let the real offenders escape justice. No one in their right mind would deposit/invest a single penny ...