6 Things You Need To Know Today – May 1, 2014
Phillips Gives In On Withdrawal Tax – Finance Minister Announces Tax On Imported Services, Other Measures To Replace Controversial Proposal. Facing howls of protests about the imposition of a bank...
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Don’t Count Hub Chickens Before They Are Hatched, Jamaica Told. It may be a case of counting the chickens before they are hatched as it relates to countries around the region, including Jamaica, that...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 14, 2014
Chasing Cheats – Tax Authority Goes After Delinquents. Delinquent taxpayers and dodgers are being put on notice that the State will be coming at them with unrelenting force this year as it seeks to...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 23, 2014
Untapped Potential – Jamaica Has Adequate Water But Lacks Proper Systems, Says Expert. Jamaica has adequate resources to consistently meet its water demand; however, the lack of a comprehensive plan...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 24, 2014
‘Draconian Law’ – Shaw Seethes As Tax Bill Threatens Seizure Of Debtors’ Property. Personal, intellectual and real properties such as financial instruments, music catalogues and land, as well as other...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 25, 2014
Fast And Furious: Dudus Caught At High Speed, Court Told. A police sergeant yesterday testified that minutes before the 2010 capture of then fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the Reverend Merrick ‘Al’...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 30, 2014
Gold Rush In Glasgow – Jamaica Sweep Women’s 400m, Win Triple Jump, 110m Hurdles In Glittering Commonwealth Games Display. Glasgow, cue the Bob Marley, the Jamaicans are taking over! That’s how it...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 5, 2014
MOCA ‘Conflict’. The parliamentary Opposition is supporting the merged intelligence entity announced by National Security Minister Peter Bunting, but has raised concern that the reporting mechanisms...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – August 15, 2014
Jail Beating Again – One Of Mario Deane’s Alleged Killers Beaten By Inmates, Cop Says. Marvin Orr, one of the two men charged with the murder of construction worker, Mario Deane, was yesterday rushed...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – September 26, 2014
Chik-V ‘Numbers Game’ Over. With widespread concerns that the Ministry of Health is grossly under-reporting the impact of the chikungunya virus (chik-V) on Jamaica, Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – October 30, 2014
Hitched In High School! Teenagers’ Marriage Stuns Parliamentary Committee. Two high-school students who tied the knot in December last year would have been denied the opportunity to become man and wife...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 26, 2014
JUTC Bailout. Taxpayers are being asked to fork out $2.9 billion to further bail out the cash-strapped Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC)… Read more at Jamaica-Gleaner.com Debate Opens On CCJ. Prime...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – November 28, 2014
‘Society Of Sissies’. As the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) makes recommendations for the Parliament to include provisions in the Offences Against the Person Act to criminalise cyberbullying,...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – December 30, 2014
Buyers, Beware – Cops Getting Tough On Stolen Car Purchasers. Armed with information that criminals, some with ties to the country’s most feared gangs, are raking in millions of dollars from the sale...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – January 27, 2015
Live Within Our Means – Rowe. Less than a month before the Government tables the 2015-2016 Estimates of Expenditure, Financial Secretary Devon Rowe has signalled that Jamaica will continue to walk a...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – February 3, 2015
Property Tax Talks – Gov’t Ministries Knock Heads As Rate Hike Looms. Land owners are facing the possibility of a new increase in property taxes, two years after the most recent hikes announced by...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – February 11, 2015
Outbound! Poll Says J’cans Are Eager To Leave Country. Yet another study has found that a sizeable portion of young Jamaicans can’t wait to ditch the land of their birth for “greener pastures”… Read...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – February 19, 2015
Corruption Crackdown. A senior official at the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is among more than 70 public-sector employees expected to be hauled before the court today in a fresh crackdown by the Corruption...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – February 25, 2015
New Law To Allow Government To Sell Delinquent Taxpayers’ Property. It will soon take just a few years of delinquency in the payment of property taxes to cause landowners to lose their property if...
View Article6 Things You Need To Know Today – July 22, 2015
FATCA Takes Effect Next Month. Effective August 17, financial institutions in Jamaica will be required to transmit relevant financial information to Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) – the competent...
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