EDITORIAL - Making a meal of tax collection
JOHN ISSA, head of the SuperClubs hotel chain, has gone on about it for perhaps three decades. And he has been right. For it is a fact that pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) employees, who represent relatively few of all the people who earn taxable income in Jamaica, carry a disproportionate...
An impending general election?
It was Edward Seaga who memorably said that "elections do not set up like rain"; but I wonder whether Prime Minister Golding is trying to prove him wrong? Once the results of the 2007 general election were mathematically close, and once the constitutional matter of persons... - Peter Espeut
Constitution still not a shackle
On November 26, 2007, The Gleaner published an editorial titled "When the Constitution is not a shackle" addressing the reported calls for Stephen Vasciannie to withdraw his application to be appointed solicitor general and the buzz about the plans by the prime minister...Dr Paul Ashley
NOTE-WORTHY: NHT deficit
The possible deficit looming at the NHT is quite easy to explain. To keep any operation liquid you must have paying customers. Poor people should be helped but not at the cost of those who play by the rules. My family, which consisted of five siblings who worked and paid ...
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