'No referendum' Gov't set to press ahead with CCJ
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson yesterday gave clear indications his Government would be pressing ahead with the controversial Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), without a referendum.

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Lottery firms get tax deadline extension
Nicholson demands ruling in Braeton Seven case
Police Staff College gets tertiary-level status
Drug accused offered $10 million bail
Sugar import racket blasted

Duty-free concessions to continue for returning residents, says Gov't
DESPITE THE challenges faced in balancing the budget, the Government has decided to further extend duty-free concessions to returning residents.

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NHT to crack down on delinquent employers
July 7 court date for teens on murder rap
$1b taken from vaults, says report
It's 'Teachers' Day'
Heated exchanges at tax committee meet
JAPEX 2003 ends

GCT pushes up insurance premiums
INSURANCE COMPANIES have told Government that the imposition of the General Consumption Tax (GCT) on life insurance premiums was ill-advised, arguing that it was a long-term investment option, and not in keeping with the principle of the tax.

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Local players shoulder tourism expansion
Big new investment at Cement Company
AirJ shifts executives
Moore Business Forms launches new division
Davies takes on the the private sector
Dollar plunges
Mayberry challenges share swap
Anti-Internet tax changes
Flogging dead crops

Best Dressed team up with the Boyz
BEST DRESSED Foods, the marketing arm of the Jamaica Broilers Group of Companies, yesterday made a commitment worth just under J$5 million to the national football players' food and nutrition programme...

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WI on the way up, says Waugh
Royal Expedition the one to beat
Say a prayer for the West Indies
Changes likely for fourth Test

Tax principles violated
THE RECENTLY announced four per cent cess violates sensible and usual taxation principles. It also batters those who pay their taxes. It does nothing to make those who do not pay their taxes start complying.

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The role of the press
Trust and other matters arising
A noble profession

What is legal is not always right
THE EDITOR, Sir: WHILE IT may be true that our Constitution allows for the Prime Minister to change our final court without a referendum, it is morally wrong to do so.

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On filtering cable programmes
A 'nine day wonder'
Taking the bull by the horns
Waste holding us back

'Head Of State': a rapidly sinking boulder
THE NEW movie, Head of State, is a rock of a movie - a rapidly sinking boulder somewhere deep in a trench in the Pacific Ocean.

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'To Mom With Love'

The hangman's noose awaits
Tobacco's effects - It has been shown in some countries that about 90 per cent of all lung cancers are caused by cigarette smoking and about 30 to 50 per cent of deaths from heart disease and strokes are attributable to cigarette smoking.

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Pregnant and iron deficient