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Scandal: Public Hospital Misuses Tax-Exempt Status for Private Gain
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Jamaica's public hospital just got caught using its tax-free status to import goods for a private company. And a sitting MP's name is right in the middle of it. The University Hospital of the West Indies is a publicly funded teaching hospital. Tax-exempt status means it imports medical equipment duty-free. For the hospital. For the patients. For the people. But dialysis machines imported under UHWI's tax-free status went straight to the premises of a private company called JACDEN Limited. Who owns JACDEN? PNP Member of Parliament Dennis Gordon. The same Dennis Gordon who sits on the Public Accounts Committee. The