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Jamaica Gleaner Commentary

Tax by another name
WHEN IS a tax not a tax? To judge by the statements coming from the Government a tax is not a tax when it is a cess. By indulging in semantics with nomenclature the Government is flying in the face of reason and twisting the meaning of the word 'cess.'...

The next phase in America's new war
REPORTS OUT of the United States this week suggest that the Americans are about to open a new front in their war on terror. The US government may send soldiers to help train troops in the former Soviet republic... - John Rapley


Traffic matters are highway robbery
I HAD planned to write about the theft of Ethiopian religious articles by Britain and the refusal to return them. However, my third trip to court in St. Ann's Bay on traffic matters, as well as Kent Gammon's open... - Melville Cooke


When the system fosters corruption
THE DISTRIBUTION of (scarce) benefits and corruption are hand and glove in Government. And the more a government regards itself as a provider rather than facilitator, arbitrator and regulator... - Martin Henry













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