Britain, France, and the European Union have settled a row over fishing licenses, delaying the trade war the sides have threatened each other with in recent months. According to the British media, talks between the sides have yielded results, with Britain and the Channel Islands agreeing to issue 83 licenses to small French boats.
Oliver Harvey, Chief Feature Writer
St Helier, Jersey
Updated: May 7 2021, 0:26 ET
Oliver Harvey, Chief Feature Writer
St Helier, Jersey
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APPEARING out of the gloom soon after 4.30am, the armada of French fishing boats was ready “to restage Trafalgar”.
Shadowing them was the might of Britain’s Royal Navy — HMS Tamar and HMS Severn — primed with cannon and machine guns.
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A member of the Jersey Militia re-enactment group appeared on the ramparts of St Helier’s 16th Century Elizabeth Castle
Then, at around 6am, the French made their move.
Amid swirling smoke from red flares and proudly flying the French tricolour, the ragtag 60-strong flotilla made for Jersey’s St Helier harbour and pluckily blockaded the port.
The hypocrisy of the OECD, pt. 2
“Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice and sometimes they work at the OECD.” — Paul Krugman
Two weeks ago, in part one of this series, we observed that, since 2000, The Bahamas government has enacted numerous pieces of legislation that have seriously, if not irreparably, eroded our offshore financial services sector. Those developments represent a prolonged and sustained assault by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on our sovereignty and our way of life.
Armed with OECD-inspired and directed legislation, those initiatives are justified in parliamentary debate that is often full of sound and fury, replete with veiled platitudes and gratuitous accolades about how the government of the day effectively staved off The Bahamas’ inclusion on the OECD’s infamous blacklist.