The people hit the hardest by the new GST will be the people on the lowest incomes, however, to try to prevent islanders living below the poverty line, the States of Jersey introduced an Income Support service in January 2008.

* 1849-Just weeks after arriving on the Melanesian island of Anatom, missionary John Geddie wrote in his journal: " In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor islanders will unite in the triumphant song of ransomed souls, ' Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.

A few months later, the island of Montserrat ( one of the United Kingdom's few remaining overseas territories ) was devastated by a volcano eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable ; when the 4, 500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked " they will be asking for golden elephants next ", and refused to visit the island.

In September 1996, the United States Department of the Interior signed a 45 million dollar resettlement agreement with the islanders, stipulating that the islanders themselves will scrape off a few inches of Rongelap's still contaminated surface.

Hotly contested by Balon's brother Victarion Greyjoy and daughter Asha Greyjoy, eventually his brother, Euron Greyjoy, the exiled " Crow's Eye ", is chosen as king due to his promise that he can control dragons with a recently acquired horn, which will help the islanders conquer all of Westeros.

The forty-five islanders were ordered to surrender their twenty or so guns, both in view of emotions that were running high and to avoid hunting accidents " because the island's population will swell by about 25 during the trial.

In March 2011 he led demonstrations of Forza Nuova against the recent surge of illegal immigrants to the island of Lampedusa, which had left the islanders outnumbered, stating to a crowd of people that: " Local people are now asking us to help secure the beaches, and if the Government continues to fail in its duty to protect the people, and also the territorial integrity of Italy and Europe, we will take up that challenge ".

Uncompromising in their enforcement of Nollop's " divine will ", they offer only one hope to the frustrated islanders: to disprove Nollop's omniscience by finding a pangram of 32 letters ( in contrast to Nollop's 35, or just 33 in the version " A quick brown ...").

If the serious health issue is there, islanders have to go to the nearest Regional hospital located in the atoll capital Thinadhoo, which will take about 45 minutes in a speed boat.

Then Earl Rögnvald Kolsson was advised by his father Kol to promise the islanders to " build a stone minster at Kirkwall more magnificent than any in Orkney, that you'll have dedicated to your uncle the holy Earl Magnus and provide it with all the funds it will need to flourish.

The main occupation of the islanders is fishing and this is where the largest tuna fishery in Sicily can be found.

They left the islanders alone, as had the Dutch, with regard to internal administration to continue to be regulated by Muslim traditional institutions.

In a vote held in January 2002, a majority of islanders ( at home and abroad ) voted in favour for an airport to be built.

The fall can be explained mostly by emigration, especially since 2002 when the islanders were granted full British citizenship.

The classic materials are flax, hemp or wool ; those of the Balearic islanders were said to be made from a type of rush.

disposition of some of the islanders is mainly to be ascribed to

In October 1496 the Royal Council ordered that the Clan Chiefs in the region would be held responsible by the king for crimes of the islanders.

Because of the uncertainty of the mail boat schedule, a conch shell would be blown to alert the islanders that the mail had arrived.

He also speculates that it may refer to the Culdees, anchorites who may have brought Christianity to the island, or be a corruption of the Gaelic name for the main island of the group, since the islanders tended to pronounce r as l, and thus habitually referred to the island as Hilta.

The ruins of the lighthouse on the promontory that faces Samos, called the " Tower of Icarus ", were strictly off limits to the islanders, as tradition asserted that there was treasure to be found in them.

The Argentines renamed the town Puerto Argentino, and although Spanish names for places in the Falklands were historically accepted as alternatives, this one is considered to be extremely offensive by many islanders.

Similarly, the Northwest Youth League, a Korean government sponsored watch-dog group made up of refugees who had fled northern Korea, actively repressed any and all " communist sympathizers " with an ardent campaign of shooting anyone on sight entering or leaving the president's " enemy zone ", raping / violation, torturing, and killing hundreds of islanders using open armed violence and what would be labeled today as terrorist activities.

Intolerance by mainland Korean officials of islanders in general at the time, government and organization sponsored isolation of the island, and rumored cover up of evidence linking the rebellion's suppressors with foreign powers and people who have today gone un-prosecuted is believed to be the primary cause of public ignorance, hedging on denial, over the April 3, 1948 genocide on Cheju-do.

At first Pedro feigned to be indifferent to the request of the Sicilians and to the plight of the islanders, but after several days to allow a proper showing of deference made for the pope's consumption, Pedro took advantage of the revolt.

However, most islanders with non-Japanese ancestry now appear to be reassimilating with the ethnic Japanese majority.

Nordstrand is the origin of a locally famous alcoholic beverage, the Pharisäer (" Pharisee "), which the islanders developed in 1872 to be able to drink alcohol in the presence of local pastor Georg Bleyer, who preached abstinence.

Here the host islanders had to prove themselves hospitable in the preparations and accommodation, in order to be able to compare favorably when it was their own turn to receive hospitality in the rival island on a similar occasion.

In August 2010 the islanders were reported to be seeking to establish cultural links with a Scottish island.

They were favourably impressed by the islanders and felt it would be " an act of great cruelty and inhumanity " to arrest John Adams.

The game includes thematic elements relating to the dangers of weaponizing genetic engineering and the genocide of local islanders as can be seen by the deformed creatures created by a mad scientist named Krieger.

The islanders had enjoyed some measure of exemption from the worst excesses of the Turkish officials, but suffered severely from the conscription raised to man the Turkish ships ; and though they seemed to be peculiarly open to attack by the Sultan's forces from the sea, they took an early and active part in the rising.

This tax replaced the county tax, which the islanders were also exempt from paying, not being part of a county.

General elections must take place at least once every four years, in which the islanders elect eight members to the Legislative Assembly ( five from Stanley and three from Camp ) through universal suffrage using block voting.

Conflict broke out between the French and the indigenous islanders in November 1649 and fighting lasted for five years until 1654, when the last opposition to the French on Grenada was crushed-although the island continued for some time after to suffer raids by war canoe parties from St. Vincent, who had aided the local Grenadan islanders in their struggle and continued to oppose the French.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

Subsequently British, New Zealand, and Fijian servicemen as well as local islanders have claimed to have suffered from exposure to the radiation from these blasts.

Some of the rebels stationed themselves in the U. S. and crossed the ice from Sandusky Bay to Pelee Island wearing " tattered overcoats and worn-out boots ", and carrying muskets, pitchforks, and swords, but the islanders had already fled.

Under German Imperial control, and even before then, Japanese traders and fishermen from time to time visited the Marshall Islands, although contact with the islanders was irregular.

Nuclear tests at Enewatak have left islanders there suffering from Cancer and birth defects.

In a move that apparently surprised many islanders the Chief Minister of Norfolk Island David Buffett announced on 6 November 2010 that the island would voluntarily surrender its self-governing status in return for a financial bailout from the federal government to cover significant debts.

As with Nanook, too, Flaherty cast locals in the various fictionalized roles, and made use of dramatic recreation of anachronistic behaviors: in this case, a sequence showing the hunting of sharks from small boats with harpoons, which the islanders had by then not practiced for several decades.

Recent economic conditions have meant that the islanders have had to draw from their reserves.

The first major blackout, which left the islanders powerless and entirely dependent on alternative methods of electricity generation ( mainly diesel generators ), was from 21 May to 19 June 2008.

Howie encounters difficulty in extracting information from the islanders, who claim never to have heard of Rowan, and whose own mother insists does not exist.

In the later 1890s and into first decade of the 20th century, structural changes occurred in the operation of the Pacific trading companies, with the trading companies moving from a practice of having traders resident on each island to trade with the islanders to a business operation where the supercargo ( the cargo manager of a trading ship ) would deal directly with the islanders when a ship would visit an island.

There is no apparent logic to the order ; this has been interpreted as suggesting that the script was scrambled to keep it secret from average islanders.

But, altogether the feats of the Torres Straits islanders equalled those reported by travellers from other parts of the world, they were due to the power of attending to minute details in familiar and strictly limited surrounding, and not to supernormal visual acuity.

During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders ( many of them from the New Hebrides ( now Vanuatu ) archipelago ) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji.

He found the islanders suffering from sickness under the stifling and baneful effects of the Dog-Star Sirius at its first appearance before the sun's rising, in early July.

The islanders carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers.

During the summer, several cruise ships come to the island each day, allowing passengers to explore and buy goods from the islanders.