A day after the Bruce Golding administration held its regular meeting at Jamaica House on Monday, members of the executive were yesterday summoned to a hastily called Cabinet meeting.
A reliable source informed The Gleaner that Cabinet members huddled at Jamaica House to discuss proposed tax measures the prime minister has already announced are imminent.
The tax measures, which the prime minister said would follow the signing of an agreement with officials from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), could be announced tomorrow.
IMF officials are now in the island to ink a standby agreement with the Government.
More cops arrested
Three more cops have been dragged before the courts as the image of the police force continues to take a battering from some of its members.
Inspector Alfred Neil and constables Clifford Brown and Greg Reid were among the prisoners in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, after the director of public prosecutions (DPP) ruled that they should be arrested and charged.
The three were arrested on Monday by detectives from the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse after the DPP's ruling.
More than 60 members of the police force have found themselves in trouble with the law since the start of this year.
Tensions rise in Thompson Pen
Investigators in Spanish Town, St Catherine, were kept busy in Thompson Pen yesterday in the aftermath of Monday's murder of two men and a shooting which left three persons injured yesterday. The violence is reportedly the result of fighting between rival gangs.
The police said that about 8 a.m. yesterday lawmen went into an area known as 'Brooklyn' where they held a wanted man.
Gunmen reportedly started to shoot at the police and it was revealed that one man, believed to be of unsound mind, and two women, including one who uses a walker to move around, were shot.
Residents said the community has become tense following the murder of David Banks, whose head was found in a scandal bag days before his decomposed body was discovered.