$330B BUDGET Most of increase to finance debt
MINISTER OF Finance and Planning, Dr. Omar Davies, yesterday presented Parliament with a $329.8 billion proposal for Government spending for the new financial year, which starts today.
JLP knocks allocation to education
GOVERNMENT HAS allocated $30.2 billion to education this fiscal year, a $677 million increase over last year, but the figure represents less than 10 per cent of the national budget.
Finance Ministry slow to correct tariff rate error
WESTERN BUREAU: A BLUNDER in the publication of tariff rates in the Jamaica Gazette has resulted in the imposition of duties of up to a 100 per cent on some consumer items, including refined sugar and some pharmaceuticals.
G-G urges unity for new legislative year
THE GOVERNMENT has outlined a host of initiatives it will undertake in the 2004/05 legislative year as it tackles a battered national economy, the scourge of crime, an inadequate education/training sector...
NCB reduces base lending rates
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL Bank Jamaica Limited (NCB), headed by Chairman Michael Lee Chin and managing director, Aubyn Hill yesterday announced a reduction in its base Jamaican dollar lending rate by half a percentage...
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