New tax on phone calls - Government announces 5% increase in cess on telecoms services
Effective Thursday, Jamaicans will be paying more to talk on telephones. Finance Minister Audley Shaw last night announced an increase in the tax on telephone cards, telephone calls and instruments from 20 per cent to 25 per cent. The finance minister also announced...
- 'BOJ now on right track'
- David Smith behind bars in the TCI
- Editors' forum - 'Rethink the rules' - UTech says stifling regulations prevent fund-raising
- Gov't urged to carry out survey on manpower
- Lois overcomes in St Bess
- Jonmore: I feel great, wonderful, elated
- Rejecting Privy Council should be the people's choice, says British DPP
- 'Public-sector workers have to play their part'
- Government of Jamaica cuts exam fund allocation
- Government pumps $900m more into overseas marketing
- New taxes would be a nightmare for tourist industry - Cummings
- Roving with Lalah - feedback
- Blogging rights: Don't log on until ...
Growing from strength to strength - Central Jamaica's only Catholic tertiary institution enjoys 17 years of growth
The Catholic College of Mandeville, which was established by former bishop of the Mandeville Diocese of the Catholic church, the late Bishop Paul Boyle, continues to see significant growth in its student population and the role it is playing in the education sector...
- Put yourself in the next man's shoes
- Diaspora committee still not off the ground
- Germans get a taste of Jamaica
- World Champs-inspired menu
- History of Seaford Town
- Charting the 100-year course
- Lyns murder case put off again
- Internship - Good way to sharpen job skills
- Teacher to the stars passes
- Does a Jamaica-born Briton require a passport to live here?
- Jamaican to be deported
- Joint solutions needed for the environment
- Forests the answer to climate change - Jagdeo
Wray a casualty of trader's excess - Campbell named interim head of First Global Bank
GraceKennedy Limited, majority owner of First Global Bank, on Tuesday announced the resignation of Wayne Wray, the bank's president, who appears to be the latest and possibly ultimate casualty of the rogue trading debacle that recently racked up losses...
- Samuda reduces cement import quota
- FirstCaribbean to clip lending rate - Bank cuts will stimulate investment, consumption, says BOJ
- CREIT exits Trinidad investment - Market awaits new strategy
- Access Financial announces public offering - Junior stock placed at $18.34 per share
- Road Maintenance Fund allocations don't add up
- Letter - Clearing up a few misconceptions
- Xerox buys E-Services parent, ACS - US$6B deal to expand tech services business
- Manulife closes AIC acquisition in share swap deal
- Barbados companies buy CLICO assets
- Property tax uproar
- Puerto Rico to lay off another 16,000 - Unemployment at 15%, deficit hits US$3.2b
- Twelve taken off the tax haven 'grey list' - 5 regional countries among them
- BNP Paribas closing offices in tax havens - Panama, Bahamas affected
'We've got to be a bit more tactical'
National women's coach Vin Blaine believes Jamaica's Under-20 Reggae Girlz are only around 75 per cent in terms of their overall preparation, despite convincing wins in the opening round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Women's Under-20 Group A qualifying championship...
- Commonwealth organisers seek to lure Bolt
- Semi-pro netball coming in 2011
- LIME gives grass-roots cricket big boost
- Addlery on target twice
- Windies looking to end on a high
- Gayle explosion! - Opener hammers 155 at trials
- Manchester FA president targets premier league goal
- Annotto Bay maul Iona
- Wolmer's blank Papine
- TFA to focus on improving playing fields
EDITORIAL - An extradition of high diplomacy
As Prime Minister Bruce Golding will appreciate, any issue relating to crime and security and involving the constituency of West Kingston, and particularly the community of Tivoli Gardens, is bound to gather national attention and place the spotlight ...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Back to the issue of abortion
The Editor, Sir: Professor Carolyn Cooper has made several interesting remarks in her recent article 'Aborting women's rights'. She suggests that the current restrictive laws are the result of male domination...
- 'All intentional abortions are wrong'
- Government's worst nightmare
- Pajero mamas and their boys
- Gambling and day of worship
- Nat'l programme needed to curb stray dogs
- Resolving the education crisis
JAFA delivers a potpourri of classics
Superb and sublime are two of the adjectives that might be used to describe the (mainly) classical music concert at the University Chapel, Mona, on Sunday evening. It wouldn't be overstating the high quality of the show to add marvellous and magnificent...
- A standing ovation for 9-y-0 Ellinor
- Diaspora in Miami defends Buju Banton, Beenie Man
- Video captures Jackman chiding cellphone offender
- ESOR to present'I Dance'
- 'Fame'-ously unsubstantial
- Something extra
Hunker down for menopause? ... perhaps not
A colleague of mine has been having some of the distressing menopausal symptoms - hot flashes and sleepless nights. But she is staying clear of hormone replacement therapy (HRT); she prefers to hunker down and wait out the storm...
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Stanford to be moved to another jail in Texas
Texas (CMC): A United States federal judge has granted a request by Sir Allen Stanford to move to another jail in Texas so he can review his documents with his lawyer. US District Judge David Hittner, on Monday, authorised Sir Allen's move from Conroe jail...
- BARBADOS - Former PM urges CARICOM to strike better deals with Canada
- Carib briefs
- Antigua Trades and Labour Union suspends head
- GUYANA - Jagdeo to look into Kwame issue
PHILIPPINES - Flood victims need help
Philippines (AP):Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water yesterday, as the government strained to distribute supplies, dig out the sprawling capital...
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