Cash shortage probe Government agencies keep millions in taxes but still short of money
WITH POTENTIALLY hundreds of millions of dollars in statutory deductions owed by Government agencies, both the Ministry of Finance and the Auditor-General's Department have proposed a study to determine why the agencies are so short of cash.
11-gun haul
THE POLICE yesterday seized from a Newport West warehouse in Kingston, 11 illegal guns and hundreds of assorted cartridges, which were packed in a 20-gallon air compressor cylinder.
DON ANDERSON POLL - Jamaicans favour referendum on CCJ
MOST JAMAICANS support the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), but a clear majority think the Government should hold a referendum to determine whether the country should participate in the controversial court.
Increased benefits from NIS
PENSIONERS UNDER the National Insurance Scheme will begin to receive increased benefits from July 1, Horace Dalley, Labour and Social Security Minister, announced yesterday.
Most pipelines restored in Portland
PORTLAND: AN ESTIMATED 96.5 per cent of the National Water Commission's (NWC) pipelines which were damaged by flood rains in Portland on Saturday, have been restored, says Viviene Brown, the NWC's parish manager for Portland.
15 children selected for eye surgery
CASSIA TAYLOR-SMITH and her husband had spent weeks praying for help for their baby daughter.
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