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A mixed reaction yesterday greeted Finance Minister Eugene Cox's first-ever Budget.
Struggling retailers were disappointed by no commitment to cutting costs for local companies with duty-free shopping and reductions or changes in import duty.
And the...
DATE: Feb 20, 1999
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
on company annual reports being imported onto the Island.
And the new budget includes a reduction in the duty tagged onto items used in the manufacture of printed products, down from 22.25 percent to 15 percent.
The break includes such items as graph...
DATE: Feb 20, 1999
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Patrick Burgess
The 18-year-old was attending a party at the Southampton Princess Hotel on Sunday evening when a fight broke out between two men at an adjoining table.
During the scuffle, which happened just after midnight, a champagne bottle was thrown, smashing ag...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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and Helena M. Pimental, all trading together as Cafe Acoreano, a firm.
Gibbons Deposit Company Ltd. has filed a writ seeking $548,766 against Andre M. Curtis and Laquitta Curtis (nee Zuill).
A writ has been filed in the matter of the Supreme Court Ac...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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Senior Magistrate Will Francis on Wednesday.
Leon Fough, 48, pleaded guilty to possessing 0.009 grammes of diamorphine, or heroin, obstructing Police and violently resisting arrest.
Magistrates' Court heard he was arrested on October 1 at 5.40 p.m. i...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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right next to a drug rehabilitation centre.
Carla Maria Easton, 37, was arrested in a crack house on Union Street, north Hamilton, on July 1 last year.
Police raided the derelict building, which joins onto the Focus drug treatment centre, and found a...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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Eugene Cox is on the other side of the fence this morning as he presents the new Government's first ever Budget.
Mr. Cox has maintained that this will be a Progressive Labour Party Budget, although he also admits that much of the groundwork was neces...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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A new pressure group of ex-cons determined to go straight has called for Prisons Commissioner Edward Dyer to be booted out of his job.
And the group wants to see a tougher regime in Westgate jail, with an emphasis on hard work and training for freedo...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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Malcolm Williams has announced his resignation from the position.
His resignation will take effect on March 31. BMA chairman Cheryl A. Lister said the search was currently under way for a replacement.
If one was not found by March 31, BMA deputy gene...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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When the PLP's first budget is unveiled today, the Island's lawyers are hoping there will be some indication that Government is ready to completely overhaul the Island's shoddy courts.
The situation has become so dire that the parties involved in two...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
