Jamaica tax package by PNP administration without balance

Important events of arts, culture, entertainment and creative happening around Jamaica between August 11-17, 2012. Support Jamaica’s creative minds! Of course, you can always click on the calendar from top menu, or, just scroll the home page of this site for daily and upcoming events! Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR: I must register my utter dismay at the recent tax package unleashed by the Government on the people of Jamaica. Is this what the prime minister calls balancing the books while balancing people’s lives? Because that scale looks very unbalanced…

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Jamaica’s PM Portia Simpson Miller lied on JPS tax for votes

Important events of arts, culture, entertainment and creative happening around Jamaica between June 2-8, 2012. Support Jamaica’s creative minds! Of course, you can always click on the calendar or just scroll the home page of this site for daily and upcoming events! DEAR EDITOR, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has always said she loves the poor, and to confirm this, her Government is ensuring that we all become poor so that she can love us all. Mrs Simpson Miller told the nation a barefaced lie when she said on television…

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LETTER: Time comes for Jamaicans to work in nation building

Webmasters Make $$$ Dear Editor, While I have not done any formal research on the issue, it appears that we have a vast untapped resource, namely human, which continues to go to waste. We continue to use the same people over and over without expanding the expertise, knowledge base and competencies of our human capital. The truth is, we continue to allow party politics to influence most of our decisions at the expense of including all Jamaicans in the process of nation building and sustainable development. Our politicians somehow have…

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Curb crime in Jamaica, amend the laws

Webmasters Make $$$ DEAR EDITOR: It is no great revelation to state that Jamaica has many difficult and intractable problems. However, I am convinced that for several of them, if not most, there are logical and methodical approaches that can be taken to claw our way out of them if we would only recognise that we have a crisis and act as though we are serious. Case in point: Why don’t we take the commissioner of police seriously when he outlines the points of weakness in our legislation and laws…

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