With reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force revealing that fraudsters have fleeced more than $300 million from commercial banks over the last three years, Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson has chided the Bank of Jamaica for not being “.
With little more than a month before the start of what is expected to be one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, the Jamaican Government has secured US$150-million insurance coverage through its World Bank catastrophe bond programme..
THE EDITOR Madam: The lawmakers found themselves addressing an amendment to the Appropriations Act 2024 due to an inadvertent inclusion of statutory expenditures. This error, which came to light less than two weeks after the Budget’s passage,.
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Jamaicans seeking to access tertiary level education will no longer need to have a guarantor in order to secure a loan from the government-run Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB), effective April 1. Finance and Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke made the announcement of the abolishment of the decades-old requirement on Tuesday as he opened the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives. The SLB provides financing for.
FINANCE AND the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has announced a $200,000 increase in the personal income tax threshold, resulting in 24,702 additional Pay As You Earn (PAYE) taxpayers falling outside of the income tax roll. At the same time.