Year: 2013

  • April 11, 2013
    769

    Tax Talks – Crucial Meeting Between Finance Ministry, Sector Interests To Discuss Removal Of Waivers

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – The Business Processing Industry Association of Jamaica (BPIAJ) is among several interest groups scheduled to meet with tax administrators at the Ministry of Finance and Planning today to discuss the likely impact the removal of tax incentives could have on their members. “Yes, we have been invited to a meeting in Kingston,” Yoni Epstein, chairman of…

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  • April 11, 2013
    946

    JAMAICA-DEATH- Dr. Olive Lewin – Jamaican musicologist is dead

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Dr. Olive Lewin the well known Jamaican musicologist, folklorist and founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers is dead. Lewin, 85, who died on Wednesday, dedicated her life to keeping the nation’s traditional songs alive by researching, collecting and recording anthologies for the benefit of future generations. In the 1980s Lewin also spearheaded the Jamaica Memory Bank Project,…

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  • April 11, 2013
    788

    PM lauds Thatcher’s contribution

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – The late Margaret Thatcher was impossible to ignore and was one of a handful of leaders who lent her name to an era. This is the view of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart who, in signing the condolence book for the former British Prime Minister, said no one could deny that between 1979 and 1990 Baroness…

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  • April 11, 2013
    776

    What’s the plan?

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – Government is being told to “come clean” with the people since the Central Bank’s call for an about turn in economic strategy reflects what the Opposition was saying all along. That was Leader of the Opposition Mia Mottley’s reaction to the bank’s statement that Government’s medium term fiscal strategy (MTFS) must be brought back on…

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  • April 11, 2013
    749

    PM Mitchell: Holding Budget will give Grenadians hope

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – THE Keith Mitchell-led New National Party (NNP) will soon be presenting a Budget in Parliament for the benefit of the people of Grenada, and though it has been described as a “Holding Budget” until the final Budget comes on stream in December, Mitchell is expecting the proposals contained therein to offer some measure of hope to…

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  • April 11, 2013
    757

    Not in LIAT!

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has made it clear that his country is not pumping any funds into LIAT until the regional airline gets “its act together” and reduces its wastage. Speaking yesterday at a Press briefing at Highgate Gardens, St Michael, Mitchell, who is embarking on his fourth term as leader of the “Spice…

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  • April 11, 2013
    764

    No need for IMF

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – There is no need for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) ‘rescue mission’ for Barbados. This was the assertion coming from Central Bank Governor, Dr. Delisle Worrell, following a contraction in the economic performance of the first quarter of 2013, and with virtually flat projections for the economy. Speaking at press conference at the Central Bank to…

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  • April 11, 2013
    814

    DOMINICA-AID-Prime Minister praises ALBA and PetroCaribe

    ROSEAU, Dominica, Apr 10, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has stoutly defended the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) and PetroCaribe saying they underscored a determination of a people to write their own script for their future socio-economic development. The two Venezuela initiatives had been at the forefront of efforts by the late President Hugo Chavez as he sought…

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  • April 11, 2013
    888

    ST. LUCIA-LABOUR-Strike costs Government over EC$3 million

    CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- The three week old strike by Civil Servants has cost the country well over EC$3 million, according to Cabinet Secretary Darryl Montrope. The Government started to assess the financial cost of the work stoppage, when the strike came to a halt on Tuesday. According to Montrope, preliminary figures for the Customs Department alone indicate that the…

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  • April 11, 2013
    823

    St Kitts presents stimulus budget

    BASSETERRE, St Kitts— Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas Tuesday presented an EC$528.1 million budget to Parliament outlining a reduction in corporate taxes as well as extending several incentive packages that his administration had earlier implemented in a bid to stimulate the economy of the twin-island federation. Prime Minister Douglas told Parliament, which had been boycotted by the six opposition legislators,…

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