John Wright

I’m not sure that ensuring the accounts and marketing functions of the SPCo are run to accepted best practice/standards will need much input from NED’s at “night/weekends”. It’s not as if they’re going to have operational responsibilities.

I specifically used specialist, not industry ( assuming by that you meany ferry operator ), expertise. Suggest you look at the job spec, then think about the size of the SPCo and the functions they are going to have oversight responsibility for.

And, given that there were expressions of interest invited, a tender with 5 participants ( none of them Manx ), and the new contract signed in January; why weren’t we told until mid April?

Methadone is doled out at most Manx chemists to addicts on a daily basis. But you have to be so far down the line with heroin addiction that your life is already wrecked before you get it prescribed.

Are there 10 NED’s? Its just over £850 a day, less tax & NI, for people with 20+ years of specialist expertise giving oversight and checking performance and compliance in technically complex areas.

Nah. Offshoremanxman by any other name.

Its one up from being a facetious humourless git who is wrong about everything, which you manage to be.

Plagiarism isn’t cool!

Like No Smoking No LGB Definitely no Trans No funding transparency No drag No politics ( except extreme right wing politics ) Publicise Josem’s do gooding at every possible opportunity

Corrected for truth

On 11m and with a 5% gross income that’s near £285 per apartment per week. Strip out communal electric, general services, corridor cleaning, insurance, tenancy change over, they’ll be lucky to break even. Maybe 2% return on capital deployed. What did they borrow at?

Because we are signed up, internationally, binding, to achieve the same percentage reductions as UK.

Arrived 09.00 Thursday. I don’t think that’s bad, from Düsseldorf, to London, via UK customs, to Isle of Man using Deutsche Post, Royal Mail and IoM Post, in 79 hours

Hold on. As an island, average daily domestic and industrial water consumption is 26 million litres. 0.2 million litres is 1/130th ( 0.66%) and they’ll be paying commercial rates for it. It’s de minimis ( too little to have any effect one way or other ).

As the site is for domestic waste, and commercial waste is charged separately, where it is allowed, I’d have thought that the total cost of operation should be divided amongst the northern authorities pro rata to their domestic rateable values.

No. The owners announcement says After 9 wonderful years of brewing tea and slicing cake, sharing hugs, stories, laughter and tears, it is with mixed emotions that we announce our upcoming departure from of our much loved Tea Junction in May next year. Our lease is up in May 2025, and while it's bittersweet to say goodbye, we're excited about the opportunity to pass the venue to new owners. In its current format the site would lend itself to a superb evening dining & cocktail venue. As you will know we’ve built up a loyal customer base over the years. Sadly, as with many other catering establishments the prosperous days are becoming sparse. Rising wage costs, coupled with a turbulent inflationary world have meant falling revenue making it increasingly difficult to sustain the concept in its current format. Interested and serious parties only please contact in the first instance by email to admin@theteajunction.im to discuss how you can make this venue your own and continue its legacy of excellence. Mark & Jason xx

Tax is issued to the registered keeper, whoever pays it, and you can insure a vehicle you don’t own, although you should note the interest of the owner. The log book is no proof of ownership, a leased vehicle is owned by the leasing company, but registered and insured in the name of the renter.

That Liverpool Waters stuff must be 5 or 6 years old. It’s not new. It’s not dated. But look at the completion dates for the various phases. A lot of the development is done. The only new thing is that the old floating landing stage which was to be replaced by a cruise liner one operated by Liverpool, was delayed, Liverpool pulled out, and a new operator has come along. The King Edward Triangle with recent planning isn’t the old SP site.

IoMSPCo 1 - daffodil planting Dr Michelle Haywood 0 ( made to look a fool ) “We have personally reached out to Dr Haywood following her comments. We always aim to deliver timely communication to our passengers via text and email, and customer service is of top priority for us. Over the past week, Storm Kathleen has caused large disruption to all our sailings and our staff have been working flat out to accommodate rescheduled sailings and deliver communication as best we can. We'd like to thank all our staff for their hard work and dedication to helping our passengers. The linkspan, which is owned and managed by Peel Ports, wasn't damaged in the storm. The work being carried out is preventative due to the extreme low tides we’ve experienced this week.”

Or offshoremanxman, again.

He doesn’t audit IoMG or local authority accounts, does he?

Years later, after Ashcroft made his allegations.

That analysis is wrong. You may have many residences and can choose which one to use for electoral registration. What you can’t do is register in more than one constituency and vote more than once.

You’re being obtuse. Apart from employing a conveyancer, who is probably qualified at legal executive level, to draw the contract and land registry transfer, what advice, written or otherwise would you take? She sold. She filled in her tax return, no doubt on the advice of her accountant. Then, several years later, a Tory tax avoider, who manipulated his domicile status to not pay £100 million plus, and gave huge sums to the Tories ( and in a totally unrelated set of events, no doubt, got given a peerage ) writes a book suggesting she had avoided £1500. She then takes advice. It’s quite usual for advice to be given in conference and not written.

It’s the post office. Lesser service, more expensive stamps.