By Petulia Clarke, Staff ReporterALMOST $750,000 is owed in rent to the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) by its tenants and the municipal council is again planning to get tough with those in arrears.
The tenant occupying property at 95 Slipe Road and who is required to pay $15,000 monthly owes $145,000.
Figures released at the Corporation's Finance Committee meeting on Tuesday showed that as at September 2002, arrears ranged from $110 for a $10 per annum property rental to $145,000 for the $15,000 per month rental.
The tenant at property at 4 1/2 East Queen Street has not paid the $10 per annum rent in 11 years and another at 1 Gordon Avenue has not paid her $4.80 per annum rent in more than 35 years. Another man in Rae Town has not paid his $10 per annum rent in three years.
In the rent statement it was observed that a property, The Real Mona Football Club at Buttercup Park, was being rented for $1 per annum with no arrears and another, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at Maxfield Avenue for $2 per annum with a huge credit. Other properties were renting for $1,000 per month where tenants had accrued up to $31,000 in arrears.
According to the rent statement, one man of Weise Road in Bull Bay owes $31,000 for a $1,000 per month property. Eight other persons at the same Weise Road address owed between 10-31 months rent.
The statement shows that The Ethiopian Orthodox Church at Maxfield Avenue that pays $2 per annum has $144 to its credit while one V. Binns at Goldbourne District in Lawrence Tavern, who pays $4 per month, has $32 to his credit.
Commendable renters include Markham Betting on Slipe Road which pays $9,000 monthly and is not in arrears and Charles Drug Store on West Queen Street which pays $15,000 per month but is not in arrears either. City Bushers Ltd at the abattoir is also up to date on its $25,000 per month rent, as is Life of Jamaica, New Kingston with its $1,120,600 per annum rent and Island Car Rental with its more than $16,000 per month rent for property in New Kingston.
