Higher port fees worry businesses
SEVERAL EXPORTERS, importers and other commercial interests are objecting to the higher inspection fees being demanded by the Port Authority of Jamaica as part of its effort to recoup the more than US$50 million which it spent on...
Stricter legal aid test coming
THE PROVISION of assistance under the legal aid scheme to persons who ought not to qualify for its benefits is causing a problem...
Use J'can uniform makers - Frankson
IF LOCAL uniform manufacturers are given the chance, they could produce high-quality products, says Doreen Frankson, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association.
Issa: Give agriculture a break - Urges Gov't to stop over-taxing sector
HOTELIER JOHN Issa says the Government has failed to adequately organise the economy to attract optimal levels of investments in areas such as tourism and agriculture, which it claimed were fundamental to national development.
Cabbie in St Thomas crash gets 2 1/2 years
ONE OF the two men charged in connection with the deaths of three young siblings in a motor vehicle accident on the Prospect main road, St. Thomas, on June 16 last year, was on Friday sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment.
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