Shaw wants cess scrapped
CONSUMERS WILL have to pay more for foreign goods as a result of the proposed cess on imports, Audley Shaw, the Jamaica Labour Party's spokesman on Finance, warned yesterday.
Island owes Iraq over $1b
JAMAICA OWES Iraq just over $1 billion, the balance on a 30-year-old debt to build an alumina refinery here that never got off the ground.
Cess will push costs only 2% - Davies
DR. OMAR Davies, Finance and Planning Minister, has dismissed as unlikely, claims that the new four per cent import cess would increase shelf prices by eight per cent, arguing that the pass-through cost would come out at two per cent.
JTA decides on wage offer May 10
THE JAMAICA Teachers' Association has finally received the Ministry of Finance and Planning's new salary scale offer. The offer is based on the realignment of teachers' salaries to those of civil servants under the new 80 per cent of market agreement.
Appeal Court suggests changes to Private Security Regulation Authority Act
THE COURT of Appeal has called for an amendment to the Private Security Regulation Authority Act, so that employers can be liable for wrongful acts committed by security guards in the course of their employment.
Policeman commits suicide - Recruit undergoing counselling after witnessing tragedy
A POLICE sergeant blew out his brains with his service pistol Sunday evening after the police minibus he was driving hit another vehicle on the Kitson Town main road, west central St. Catherine, the police say.
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