Little progress on enviro levy
THE SPECIFICS of the new environmental tax announced six months ago are still being ironed out. Ministry of Finance spokesman Cordell Braham says it is possible that the levy's implementation would not happen before next year.
Low voter turnout in Trench Town
ONLY ONE-THIRD the number of registered voters turned out to cast their ballots in the rerun of elections at four polling stations in the Trench Town division yesterday.
Ministry owes legal aid lawyers millions
THE MINISTRY of Justice says it owes more than $40 million to lawyers volunteering their services to the Legal Aid Council.
Flankers 21 to face court on Wednesday
WESTERN BUREAU: CALM HAS returned to Flankers, prompting the pull-out of the Jamaica Constabulary and Defence Force personnel stationed there over the past four days.
EU gives supplies to Agri Ministry
PORTLAND: THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Commission has donated 1,700 tonnes of agro-chemicals and fertilisers, two mini excavators, a back hoe and four vehicles to the Ministry of Agriculture, Boundbrook Wharf in Portland.
HORIZONS ON THE REFORMATION FORUM
'More unites us than divides us' "THERE IS need to preserve a fundamental unity of the believer, and a recognition that what unites us is always greater than that which divides us."
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