Weekly Round-up: Phillips says massive taxes to come…Siblings die in fire… Flippa to be sentenced
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Opposition spokesman on Finance Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday knocked the Government’s 2016/2017 budget, saying that the revenue targets will not be achieved.
Phillips said the tax break plan announced by Finance Minister Audley Shaw was not the $1.5-million income tax threshold promised, and warned of another massive tax package for next April’s budget.
Meanwhile, grief and anguish gripped Heathfield Avenue in St Andrew Wednesday, after two siblings — ages 10 and five — perished in an early morning fire that destroyed their seven-bedroom house..
A total of 13 people are now homeless.
In entertainment, dancehall deejay Flippa Mafia is scheduled to be sentenced on June 3 in the United States.
He was found guilty in December 2015 of first-degree distribution of cocaine, second-degree money laundering, and second-degree conspiracy.
See stories below:
Phillips says budget ‘doesn’t add up’
Shaw eyeing abolition of income tax in five years
Gov’t will not defund high schools — Reid
Two siblings perish in St Andrew fire
Cop attacked, shot multiple times.
Senior superintendent among two arrested by INDECOM
Free yellow fever vaccination for athletes heading to Brazil — Health Ministry
