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Guernsey's working population has fallen. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The latest figures from the States show that there's been a drop | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
in the number of people aged between 16 and 64. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
It comes at a time when the number of pensioners is increasing. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Mike Wilkins reports on the demographic time bomb. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
At the end of last year, Guernsey's population was 62,50 , | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
It is the largest increase in five years. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
But it is not necessarily in the age group that the Government is hoping. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
The number of pensioners is increasing, but critically, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the working age population has fallen. | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
It may sometimes feel like there's a lot of people pounding | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
the pavements in town, but last year, the working `ge group | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
And when you look back further, almost 2000 people have been lost | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
from this group over the last five years. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
That's a lot of people who could be paying income tax. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
So why is the working population declining? | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Some feel there isn't enough diversity in the economy for | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
younger workers, while others feel the island's restrictive | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
This woman is responsible for employment and social sdcurity. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
She says it's unclear if the population management regime | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
will help when it comes into force in April. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
because I hear some negativhty about some of the population. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
I think, because we are not there yet and it | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
will not come into force until next April, people are starting to have | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
some concerns about certain elements of that policy. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
I think it is one of those things that until we actually | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
enter the policy, it will be work in progress. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
It's long been forecast that Guernsey would have an ageing | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
population, but now, what were future forecasts | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
are playing out as problems in the present. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Described as the largest tax evasion network in the world, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Guernsey and Jersey have cole under fire in the House of Commons. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
The UK Shadow Home Secretarx, Diane Abbott criticised | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
the Crown Dependencies and Overseas British Territories | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
during a debate on a bill about financial crime, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
looking at issues like monex laundering and tax evasion. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
The MP said there needs to be more focus on places | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Guernsey's government says the island meets all the relevant | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
international standards set by international bodies, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
and Diane Abbott's comments are ill-informed and inaccurate | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Alderney States will pay up to ?120,000 to provide an extra | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
150 flights to Guernsey and Southampton next year. | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
It says it's in a bid to boost economic activity | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
The government's underwriting the flights and says that if Aurigny | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
puts on the flights and thex're sold out, then it won't cost the States | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Jersey's mail order plant industry has shrunk by almost two thhrds | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
A recent farming statistic report showed its value fell from over ?23 | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
pounds in 2012 to just over ?8 million last year. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
It's the lasting effect of the loss of low value consignment relief | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
There's now only one business still trading, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
Only a few years ago, businesses like this one in Jersey | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
were generating tens of millions of pounds. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
But now that value has fallen by 70%. | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
entirely down to the loss of low value consignment relief. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
There were ourselves and at least two other people in the market | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
here, they have now stopped trading and it is only us left. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
We had to cut costs and let some people go | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Obviously, when you put prices up, sales go down. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
So, that is the biggest change in the market. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Tim says the government could have prevented this if they | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
If we dealt with it differently at the time, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
we probably could have got a better deal | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
I think the UK had dug their heels in a bit. | :04:18. | :04:40. | |
That is despite acknowledging the value this | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Politicians say there is nothing they can do to support its future. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
there is nothing I would like more than to sde | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
and brings money into the island. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
We have fought as hard as wd could to keep it going, we went to | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
the High Court, spent a lot of money on top lawyers, | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
the judge made this decision and we are left | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Although many have stopped trading in the island, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
this one remaining company hopes to grow the industry | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
even without the help of Jersey's government. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Jersey's cricketers are in Los Angeles hoping to win | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
promotion to the highest level in their history. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
They play their first match in World League Four | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
They won the right to play in the six-team event by clhnching | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
the division five trophy on home turf back in the summer. | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Jersey have played at this level twice before and on both occasions | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
There's an optimism though that the competition in Calhfornia | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
This time, I feel like we h`ve worked really hard and we h`ve a bit | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
There are a lot of youngsters in the squad but we have | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
had experience of these tournaments now. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Hopefully we can get a really good result out of it. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
And staying with sport, in the past hour Jersey Reds have | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
lost to Yorkshire Carnegie, 35-29 in Leeds. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
But now time for the weather, with Bee. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Good evening. If you are out trick or treating this weekend, it looks | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
like it will be fairly similar to the past few days. Dry, a fdw bright | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
spells, but a lot of cloud `bout. In the morning, only mist and fog. The | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
reason for this benign pattdrn in our weather, this large are` of high | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
pressure in the United Kingdom. Very little change over the next couple | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
of days. As we go through tonight, it is fairly quiet. It should be | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
dry. With all the cloud covdr, it will be low in places, it whll not | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
be a particularly cold night. That sets itself up for a fairly great | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
start to the day tomorrow. The odd light shower, for most of us dry. A | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
few showers, on balance mord cloud than sunshine. If you do get | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
brightness, temperatures up to 4 or 15 degrees. Halloween on Monday a | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
tribe at cloudy day. By night, the return of some mist and fog. Very | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
quiet over the next few days. The weekend dry. Some mist and fog. | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Temperatures are above aver`ge for this time of the year. More sunshine | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
on Monday but again the risk of mist and fog forming overnight. We'll be | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
back at 6:30am on Monday, to come into the beginning of next | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
week as well. Now the national picture. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
autumn colours, especially if you have seen | :07:48. | :07:48. |