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EDITORIAL - The job now is to collect the taxes
EDITORIALThe job now is to collect the taxesAs was obvious from the deliberations by Parliament's Standing Finance Committee over the past week, crafting the Government's Budget for the current fiscal year couldn't have been easy.Like Oliver Twist,...
The politics of cowardice
Joseph M. Matalon and his Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) are frustrated. What they thought was an objective, thorough, patriotic, good-faith effort to recommend improvements to Jamaica's tax code has been trashed.
Squandering resources on reggae poetry
In response to last week's column 'Passive resistance at UWI, Mona', a disdainful reader who goes by the name of 'Pauline Principle' took a rather unprincipled position: "I am shocked that in these hard times, scarce resources are being squandered on a...
An unusual friendship:Botswana
She was from Botswana. I met her in 1984 at a housing symposium held at George Washington University in Washington, DC, administered and sponsored by USAID.
Balancing the gay-rights debate
THE LOCAL faith-based community is pushing back against the advance of the gay agenda, with the recent staging of a forum by the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, which was formed in January.
The Gavel
PNP's credibility slipping fast
Carimed Celebrating 25
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