Cigarette Company faces tax axe
THE CIGARETTE Company of Jamaica Ltd., a subsidiary of the Carreras Group, has been assessed by the Commissioner of Taxpayer Audit and Assessment and ordered to pay $5 billion in taxes for the period 1997 to 2002.

Locals arrested in UK crackdown
POLICE IN Bristol have just completed a major offensive aimed at crippling the operations of dealers of crack cocaine in the West Country area of the United Kingdom.

Steady tax liability appeals
THE 17-MONTH-OLD Taxpayer Appeals Department (TAD) is reporting that 47 taxpayers have registered appeals against tax liability since the department opened its doors in early 2002.

Classroom management fails some Caribbean teachers in US, UK
THIRTY PER cent of Caribbean teachers employed in British and American schools have been given low grades for classroom management, two overseas recruiting agencies have confirmed.

J'cans killed in US crash buried
NEW YORK: MEMBERS OF a Jamaican family were killed last week in an accident in Pennsylvania, United States.

Farewell, Justice Clarke
A JAM-PACKED Grace Missionary Church and churchyard was testament yesterday to the hundreds of lives that were touched by the works of former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Neville St. Elmo Clarke.