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The Tax Administration Services Department (TASD), is to launch an aggressive Tax Compliance Programme on November 1, as it takes a hard line stance against avoidance and delinquency. Speaking to JIS News yesterday (Sept. 24), Director of Public Relations, Meris Haughton, said the Department is ready to bring tax dodgers to book. "Come November 1, following the end of the...

The Forestry Department, is now in the final stages of moving from a department of the Ministry of Agriculture, to being an Executive Agency. In an interview with JIS News, Conservator of Forests, Marilyn Headley, said that while the Forestry Department, as an Executive Agency, would generate some income for services offered in areas such as dissemination of research data...

Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has announced that local importers are to benefit from continued suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET), applied to the importation of cement. Speaking at a press briefing on September 24, at the Ministry's offices in New Kingston, Mr. Samuda pointed out that agreements have been finalised for the suspension of the...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has said that sugar cane, which was once the symbol of slavery in Jamaica and the Caribbean, is today, the key to liberating the country from its dependence on oil. The Minister made the statement at a JIS, Think Tank, session yesterday (Sept. 24), where he spoke about the energy challenges facing the country and...

Senior Education Officer in the Core Curriculum Unit, of the Ministry of Education, Herma Meade, has announced that the second annual general meeting for teachers of modern languages will be staged on Friday September 26, in an attempt to better improve students' performance in these subjects. She made the announcement during an interview with JIS News yesterday (Sept. 24). "The...

Government's efforts at expanding Jamaica's productive capacity will be focussed heavily, over the next two years, on the development of facilities, to accommodate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operations, by entities desirous of investing in the sector. This, according to Industry, Investment, and Commerce Minister, Karl Samuda, who says the expansion of Jamaica's productive capacity, is necessary, if the country...

Co-ordinator of the Institute for Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies(UWI), Franklin McDonald, has said there is a need for more parishes to develop plans, in order to achieve sustainable prosperity. He was speaking at the St. Thomas Environmental Protection Association Benevolent Society's (STEPA) 2nd Wetlands and Coastal Areas Stakeholders Conference, held yesterday (Sept. 24), at the...

Minister of Energy, Clive Mullings, has informed that the E10 Ethanol programme, out of the Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy, a unit within the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), is expected to be rolled out on November 1. "We will make available in 87 gasoline, the blend of 10 per cent ethanol (and 90 per cent petrol).and that will...

Twelve persons from the county of Surrey, have been presented with citations and plaques, for outstanding achievement in their communities. They are: Kahielia Levy, Clover Angela Tobin and Verona Blair-O'Connor from St. Thomas; Cindy Haynes, Dr. Janique Mishael Ricketts and Bradley Orlando Lecky from Kingston; Kemoy Jorge Orlando Smith, Wayne Dave Mullings and Dean Lincoln Rhoden from St. Andrew; and...

Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Burchell Whiteman is the new Chairman of the Board of the Commonwealth of Learning. The Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources, and technologies. High Commissioner Whiteman told JIS News that it was...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, is emphasising the need for Jamaica to become responsive to the issues of climate change, which impacts tourism, influencing destination preferences and affecting the kinds of experiences the visitor can have. In his message for World Tourism Day, which will be observed globally on September 27, under the theme: 'Tourism Responding to the Challenge of...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will this morning (Sept 26) be addressing the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He will be the 7th presenter in this morningʼs session which gets underway at 9:00am (NY time, 10:00am JA time)), speaking after the leaders of Burundi, Bangladesh, Italy, Nepal, the United Kingdom and Mauritius. Mr Goldingʼs address...