Published:Wednesday | September 24, 2008 | 1:05 PM
Businesspersons and individuals who owe taxes have less than a week to benefit from the 80 percent waiver on interest and penalties under the tax amnesty programme.
A controversial comment by a member of the Independent Jamaican Council for Human Rights (IJCHR) drew the ire of committee members examining the six crime bills in Parliament this morning.
Industry and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda said Jamaica will not be able to purchase some 32,000 tonnes of rice that the Guyanese government has set aside for the country.
The government has indicated that its moving to expedite the payment process to workers in the banana industry whose positions have been made redundant.
As the fallout in the ranks of the Peoples National Party (PNP) continues, defeated leadership candidate Dr. Peter Phillips and Sharon Hay Webster, who lost in her bid for a vice presidential position are the latest to tender their resignations.
Political analyst, Kevin O’Brien Chang believes the People’s National Party will be able to regroup quickly despite resignations following Dr. Peter Phillips’ loss to Portia Simpson Miller on Saturday.
The four men charged for the murder of two women whose bodies were found inside a cave in Westmoreland last month are to reappear in the Sav la mar Resident Magistrate’s court today.
The Jamaica Teachers Association, JTA is to again meet with representatives from the finance ministry this afternoon to continue discussion surrounding salary realignment for teachers.
Two men who were wanted for questioning by the St James police in relation to multiple murders committed in Norwood were killed in an alleged shoot-out with the police yesterday.
Members of the St. Ann Parish Council are to meet with newly appointed Inspector General of the constabulary force Deputy Commissioner Charles Scarlet today.
The National Housing Development Corporation Limited has lost the 260 million dollar civil suit case which it had brought against Danwil Construction Limited.
Peoples National Party caretaker for Western St Thomas Rosemarie Shaw who supported defeated leadership contender Dr. Peter Phillips today resigned from the post.
