Good afternoon and welcome to the Midday News and Milton Walker a special welcome
if you're watching on 1spotmedia.com the parliamentary opposition is this
afternoon stressing that ordinary Jamaicans will not get any of the 14
billion dollar tax give back announced by the government yesterday finance minister
made the announcement during his budget presentation in Parliament
yesterday and while some Jamaicans are happy with the move the opposition is
not more in the support not surprisingly the opposition has it back at the
government's announced tax cuts during his budget presentation on Thursday
finance minister dr. Nigel Clarke said the government will scrapped them in
more business tax replace stamp duties with a flat $5,000 fee reduce the
transfer tax raise the general consumption tax GCT a threshold and get
rid of the asset tax for non-financial institutions but his opposition
counterpart Mark Golding is questioning the government's decision on where to
give the tax breaks he says consumers should have benefited
the choices as to how the 14 billion dollars of taxes that are being given
away you know that it's really nothing in there for the typical an industry
look a small person who is struggling to survive you know there is they are not
we are benefiting from transaction taxes they're not doing transactions that
incur transfer tax and stamp duty of the treaties once a lifetime so I think
given the pressure the people are under they could have given them some of it
you know you could have given some of that 14 billion to mr. Golding notes
then the government will be able to forego the billions it's giving up
because tax revenues have been strong under the current economic program allow
them to reduce the taxes by giving them softer primary service now it's giving 6
9 percent of GDP that's around 10 point nine billion of the 14 the revenue
performance has improved again largely because of the work that we did when we
were in office to reform the tax system and improve collections and that has
borne fruit which has really paid for a lot of you things in the meantime
members of the business community are happy with the tax breaks president of
the private sector organization of Jamaica Howard Mitchell says it will
among other things address some of the economic equality z-- which persists in
society I convinced that it's speaking to a core small and medium-sized
business enterprises which are represented 70% of GDP achieve a good
agriculture minister Audley Shaw says the country's agricultural sector has more
potential but farmers are just not taking advantage of markets overseas
he pointed specifically to the under utilization of the CARICOM market which
allows member states like Jamaica to export goods duty-free tea BJ's kaliesha
Williams has that story for a country that is so heavily dependent on
agriculture some argue that farming should have been
a highly profitable business venture but according to Agriculture Minister
only Shaw Jamaica continues to lag behind the reason since taking over the
portfolio in 2018 mrs. Shaw has been urging farmers to plant more however
farmers have had to compete with imported goods leaving them with fewer
local customers but Mr Shaw says the market is there
but farmers are just not taking advantage of it
and for Jamaicans living outside the country the school feeding program is
another viable option which the Minister believes people are just not tapping
into we have Mr Shaw was addressing farmers in Trelawny on Wednesday
kaliesha Williams TVJ news following heated exchanges between the police and
vendors in Maumee Bay st. Anne the sellers have now been relocated the
vendors are upset with the police for demolishing their stalls which blocked a
section of the main thoroughfare On February 7 the police say the vendors
were selling at the location illegally counselor for the lime old division
which mommy Way Falls Geneva Gordon Bailey says the owner of property
adjacent to the REO tel will allow the vendors to use the land for the next six
months of the counselor notes it will not be business as usual for the vendors
who will be using the area
all vendors within this space are closely vetted by the police in way of
getting proper identification and where TR and all those things registering them
to make sure that the police of an idea of who are these persons and these
vendors also are signing an agreement to with the property owner so that as a
30th of September they should evacuate this property all things will be removed
of this property and it goes back to normalcy a seven-year-old boy is dead
including and two other men after a motor vehicle they were traveling on
crashed along the Melrose bypass in Manchester yesterday evening the
deceased had been identified as 25 year old Shane wint seven-year-old Daniela
Wynn and 25 year old were Jason was all of Stony Hill in st. Andrew TVJ News
understands at her own 7:30 the men and the child were travelling in a toyota
mark X motorcar when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into
a truck that was traveling in the opposite direction they were taken to
hospital where they were pronounced dead the Jamaica police have arrested and
charged 57 Dominican nationals with several offenses under the
Fisheries Act 2018 the men were held after the Jamaica Defence Force Coast
Guard intercepted two Dominican Republic can fishing vessels at the Petra banks
on Saturday there are foreign poaching legally in Jamaican waters they've been
charged with possession of buried lobsters possession of undersized
lobsters possession of conch in a closed season fishing without a license and
fishing without identification meanwhile the captain chief made an engineer have
been charged with using a vessel as a processing plant without the permission
of the minister as well as operating a motor vessel within Jamaican territorial
waters without a license an application has also been made for the vessels to be
forfeited as well as other equipment Lobster
and conquer 14 children and ten adults were displaced on Wednesday afternoon
after fire got to their seven bedroom dwelling on Windsor Road in sentence B
TVJ News understands that a fire started sometime after two o'clock the estimate
and cause of the damage is still unknown no one was injured occupants who were at
the house at the time of the fire explained what happened was the fire
come on we just borrowed fire for you
Michinoku come here somebody balance a fire fire fire so below kedaranatha the
kitchen our enormous City next door and fire so that's all I'm gonna do run back
in my kitchen enjoy the gasp and a memorable run in the room where the be
everyone's sleeping it was on fire the bed when I was on fire
I saw me that I could enjoy the baby by the foot and run out to the office all
record we don't save anything just me guess when we get receive or tarios
counselor for the sentence by division Dallas Dickinson says efforts are being
made to help with the rebuilding process I had spoken earlier this morning with
the Member of Parliament on Abba Shane Robinson with the minister flibben
Social Security Minister for the st. Ann's Bay office of the Ministry of
Labour we also spoke to the offices of the
welfare department of the same time Municipal Corporation and today they're
becoming here to do an assessment and to put in place what is needs to be done as
well as anyone anyone audio can help especially children them children and
lost everything we have aboard we have four grandchildren and neighbours of
about four run olynyk's are about to waste we have about 14 children here
with us we are asked anybody audio can help with if I bed school bug school
shoes whatever you have can assist of for the children most
like a state minister for education Elan doTERRA lung is suiting the government's
brain builders program as a step in his administration's push to provide equal
opportunities for all students to ensure that all Jamaican children get the best
start in life by attending to their health nutrition total development
stimulation social protection child protection and early intervention needs
he was speaking at the third bi annual international conference on education
and leadership and management held at an Oxford quarter tell in Kingston on
Thursday the two-day conference has been observed under the theme educational
leadership for social justice policy practice community