New cess, more tax - JPSCo customers to offset costs for street lighting
JUST LESS than 500,000 customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) will, on April 1, begin paying a 3.14 per cent cess to offset the company's cost of providing street lighting. On the same day, property owners...
Tax evasion scams cost Gov't millions - Dalley
THE EVASION of stamp duty and transfer taxes has been identified by forensic experts as the main reasons behind irregularities at the National Land Agency (NLA), specifically the Land Titles Division, Horace Dalley...
No let-off for Hondurans
DESPITE VIGOROUS protests from local Honduran officials, the captain and chief mate of a Honduran vessel who were fined for breaches of Jamaica's fishing and environmental laws last week...
Ambassadors, consul general appointed
THE MINISTRY of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade yesterday announced the appointment of two ambassadors and a consul general to represent Jamaica in Germany, Cuba and Toronto/Canada.
Eastern Banana to cut more employees
MORE THAN 150 employees of Eastern Banana Estates, St. Thomas, a subsidiary of the Jamaica Producers Group (JPG), will be made redundant tomorrow. The company's human resources manager, Don Witter, confirmed yesterday...
Whiteman dismisses Seaga's comments
EDUCATION MINISTER Burchell Whiteman yesterday dismissed as "unscientific", arguments made by Opposition leader Edward Seaga that a reported $6 billion overrun in expenditure on various Government projects could send Jamaican children to secondary...
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