THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on January 17 in the years identified:

1950: The Income Tax Department began a drive designed to implement the collection of this type of taxation by a check on owners of residential and business premises, who have been reluctant in the past in making full returns of rentals collected on these premises, for income tax purposes. It was estimated that several thousand pounds of taxable income from rentals have not been reported to the department over the past few years, and efforts were now being made to rectify the position, and so make it possible for charges to be made on taxable amounts.

1951: The new Reo Cinema built in Old Harbour by Stanley Vaz, JP, opened. From 6 p.m., a large crowd assembled, and when the ticket office opened to the public, there was a continuous stream of patrons until 8 p.m. when, GC Gunter, commissioner administering the affairs of the parish of St Catherine, led by Ivan Vaz, declared the entertainment centre opened.

1956: The House of Representatives received an Income Tax Amendment Bill, the Municipal and Parochial Boards Constitution Bills and the Small Business Loans Bill, among others. By the close of the sitting, the House had debated and taken second reading of the Income Tax Amendment Bill and approved appropriation of the unallocated portion of the second instalments of the Loans Bill rasied under authority of the Loan Law of 1953, among other minor matters.

1967: A bill to amend the University College Hospital Law in order to make new provisions with regard to the constitution of the hospital’s board, and to change the name of the hospital and its board, was passed by the House of Representatives.