'Tax target unreal' - Expert wants Jamaican government to imprison GCT dodgers
TAX SERVICES expert, Ethlyn Norton-Coke does not believe Government will achieve a 20 per cent growth in tax revenue this fiscal year. She says Government should only expect to collect 50 per cent of its target.
Burnt-out nurses - One RN to 40 patients at Children's Hospital
"THE NURSES are burnt out and this can lead to a reduction in quality care and also cause increased nursing and medical care errors," Edith Allwood-Anderson, the Nurses Association of Jamaica president, told The Sunday Gleaner.
Stressful working conditions at KPH
MERLYN BLACK, a registered nurse (RN) at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for more than 20 years, says she is fed up with the conditions that nurses at that institution have to work under.
Local manufacturing concerns to take spotlight at Budget Debate
OPPOSITION LEADER Bruce Golding says he will be addressing issues concerning the local manufacturing sector when he speaks in the Budget Debate on Thursday.
No policy on sexual misconduct by students
WITH SEXUAL misconduct among students proving a challenge in schools across the country, there is no policy to address the issue.
House racket?
A NUMBER of the nation's poor in a bid to avoid squatting, are being forced to pay as much as $4,000 in monthly rent to shady beneficiaries of houses built for free by the international charity Food For the Poor.
Pursuing a new growth strategy (Pt III)
SO FAR, this series of articles has argued on the one hand that a fixed exchange rate regime produces low inflation, low interest rates, and upper middle to high incomes per capita on a sustained basis.
Omar's last stand
AMID THE detailed discussions of the Budget and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), we have lost sight of the fact that this is very likely the last budget of Dr. Omar Davies.
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