Bruce pulls back

JamaicaObserver.com: "The Bruce Golding administration last night appeared to pull back from the brink, announcing a revised tax package that shifted the burden substantially away from the poorest Jamaicans to higher income earners.
Against the backdrop of street demonstrations by the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) and lingering public outrage over the $21.8 billion tax package unleashed last week, Golding, looking subdued and sombre, unwrapped the new package in a national broadcast on radio and television.
Last week's measures contained a painful addition of GCT to a raft of previously non-taxed basic food and services which, Golding last night said would be rolled back."