Personal income tax abolished in Antigua and Barbuda

January 22, 2016 in Regional

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, Friday January 22, 2016 – Workers in Antigua and Barbuda will get a tax ease from April when government abolishes Personal Income Tax (PIT). Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who made the announcement in his Budget presentation in Parliament yesterday, said it...

Haiti plunges on with poll despite opposition boycott

January 21, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_9489" align="alignleft" width="300"] Haitian police stand in front of the Haitian Parliament, in Port-au-Prince, on January 11, 2016, during a protest against the first session of the Parliament.[/caption] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Haiti's outgoing president brushed aside street protests, boycott threats and fraud claims Thursday...

385 lose jobs

January 20, 2016 in Regional

THREE hundred and eighty-five sugar workers from the Pan-Caribbean-run Monymusk and Frome sugar estates will be sent home today after the company advised them yesterday that their positions are to be made redundant. Monymusk in Clarendon will lose 279 mainly field workers, while the 106 workers...