Business

Joseph Matalon, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), is intensifying his organisation's call for deep tax cuts by Government.

Question: I have tried to get my head around the new property tax bands in Jamaica, but I find the information rather vague. Can you tell me in simple terms how much tax you would pay on a house valued at say, $15 million?

Question: On October 19, 2009, I was travelling as a passenger in a 2005 Honda Civic. It was being driven by the owner. While we were on the Hellshire Road, a white Toyota Corolla taxi hit the rear of the Honda. The matter was reported to the taxi's insurers. They replied to say that the taxi driver had not reported the collision and asked for a police report.

A satellite New Kingston property that now houses three police units has been targeted for development by the National Housing Trust (NHT), which is investing at least $138 million to relocate the units.

A study tour of Colombias national competitiveness programme, sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, was undertaken by representatives of The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica; the Jamaica Exporters...

Business for Carreras Limited, the largest distributor of cigarettes in Jamaica, continues to be challenged by the unauthorised manufacturing and illicit trading of the Craven 'A' branded product.The latest shipment...

Omar Azan, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), wants the Jamaican Government to haul Trinidad and Tobago before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) over what he claims is the discriminating pricing policy of its oil to its population.

Operators of Dolphin Cove are reporting progress on another, more expansive, marine attraction being developed on a 23-acre spread along the coast in Lucea, Hanover.

The National Housing Trust (NHT) has offered a sweet deal to developers who for three years will have access to financing at a subsidised rate of three per cent, in exchange for cheaply priced houses targeted at the lower tier of the residential real estate market.

If 1989 saw the end of the 'Second World' with communism's demise, then 2009 saw the end of what was known as the 'Third World'. We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar world economy - where north and south, east and west, are now points on a compass, not economic destinies.

Thousand of mourners gathered at the St Andrew Parish Church, Half-Way Tree, yesterday to remember the impeccable work of financial expert and businessman Roy Collister.

University professor Alvin Wint has been selected to chair the commission which will conduct an enquiry into the sugar industry. He will be supported by fellow commissioners Marjorie Henriques, a former director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, and accountant Wilfred Bagaloo.