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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) on Thursday selected Loretta Lillios as Director of the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau (IEB). The MGC’s four commissioners voted unanimously to approve the hiring of Ms. Lillios, who has been with the MGC since 2014, serving first as Deputy General Counsel and then as Chief Enforcement Counsel/Deputy Director of IEB. Most recently, she has served since September 2020 as Interim Director of IEB. As Chief Enforcement Counsel and Deputy Director, ...

Port of Port-of-Spain The upgraded system now being utilised by the Customs and Excise Division will improve this country’s ease of doing business, the Ministry of Finance has stated. In a release issued yesterday, the Finance Ministry announced that the Customs and Excise Division has upgraded to ASYCUDA World 4.2.2. ASYCUDA is a computerised customs management system developed in Geneva by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which covers most foreign trade proced...

SunStar Bacolod registers 7,531 businesses in 1st week of Boss BACOLOD. Bacolod Business One-Stop-Shop (Boss) at the 4th Floor of Ayala Malls Capitol Center in Bacolod City. (Bacolod City PIO photo) + January 10, 2021 THE City Government of Bacolod has already registered a total of 7,531 businesses in the first week of opening of the Business One-Stop-Shop (Boss) at Ayala Malls Capitol Center, Bacolod City. Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the business confid...

SunStar Photo from Tacloban City Information Office + January 07, 2021 OVER 7,000 permits are targeted to be processed and renewed in Tacloban City as it formally opened the annual registration and renewal of businesses on Monday, January 4, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Business Permit and Licensing Division (BPLD) announced that health protocols will be strictly observed as their office is open from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. BPLD Head Gemafiel Gaspay also urge...

(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) Optical Media Board’s (OMB) enforcement and investigation chief Manuel Mangubat filed on Tuesday, Jan. 5, the complaint against the respondent identified as Jawen Heart Escala Domingo, a resident of Meycauayan, Bulacan. In the complaint, Domingo is accused of violating Republic Act 9239 or the Optical Media Act of 2003 in relation to RA 8293, in particular, for engaging in sale and distribution under Sec. 19 and for copyright infringement under Sections 177.1 and ...

Licensing Division has some way to go Sunday 3 January 2021 Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan checks his drivers permit under the watch of Transport Commissioner Clive Clarke at the opening of the Licensing Division office in Guaico, Sangre Grande on July 24, 2020. PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE - Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan promised last week that the two customised buses to be deployed as mobile licensing offices will begin operations soon. The buses, ordered at a cost o...

Easier access to licensing services in 2021 Clive Clarke - TWO CUSTOMISED buses have been bought and are set to be outfitted to be used as mobile licensing offices. The buses, which cost just over $2 million, are designed to provide basic services to rural areas, where access is otherwise difficult. They will begin operating within “a few months” says Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan. The minister, together with the ministry’s permanent secretary Sonia Francis-Yearwood and T...

Transport Commissioner Clive Clarke, who has been in the position for just about a year, has embarked on the herculean task of eradicating corruption at the Licensing Division, as well as transforming it into a modern, efficient entity. In that endeavour, for Mr Clarke to succeed in areas where his predecessors have made little or no progress, he will need support, not only from within the Division but from law enforcement and other investigative agencies to completely weed out all of the illi...

Don’t thief a chance Photo courtesy Pixabay THERE he was, just standing at the side of the road, right outside his own house, waiting for a taxi to take him to work at the Mayaro Fire Station. But Satesh Ramkissoon, 32, never made it that far. The fireman was crushed by a dump truck on Tuesday after it veered off the road. Another vehicle was also involved in this sad sequence of events. “Both drivers are blaming each other, but they both were speeding,” an eyewitness said. It’s a grim ...

BAGUIO CITY: Owners of newspaper and watch repair stands in the city were given a six-month extension before they relocate to paid spaces inside establishments. The dialogue held on December 15 gave the stand owners from January to June next year to continue selling in the streets so long as they have updated business permits, according to the City Administrator’s Office. Baguio City’s anti-road obstruction campaign caused tension among local government administrators and small ...