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October 1, 2021

Commission of Inquiry alleges Customs programme may violate law

In its roughly 40-year history, the Customs Department’s Partial Payment Programme has never been governed by a formal policy, despite Custom Commissioner Wade Smith’s assurance following a December audit that …

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by Joey Waldinger
July 16, 2021

No charges after $264,000 went missing from Customs Department due to suspected fraud

In 2015, the Internal Audit Department discovered that someone had presented receipts for cash payments of almost $265,000 to the Customs Department for importing fuel at Port Purcell, but this …

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by Joey Waldinger
July 16, 2021

“Partial payments” perk has cost the Customs Department more than $490,000

The Customs Department’s more-than-40-year-old Partial Payments Programme resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue between 1996 and 2019, the public learned when the Commission of Inquiry questioned …

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by Joey Waldinger
July 1, 2021

Customs and Immigration chiefs appear before Commission of Inquiry

Customs Commissioner Wade Smith and Chief Immigration Officer Ian Penn, the heads of the territory’s two biggest border enforcement agencies, sat before the Commission of Inquiry on June 23 and …

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by Joey Waldinger
June 18, 2021

Renewable imports to be tax-free for two years

Starting July 1, government will eliminate all import duties on any renewable energy product for a period of two years, according to a recently published summary of the May 28 …

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by Joey Waldinger
September 4, 2020

Beefed up border patrol nabs boat

Six days after government announced a new border control task force composed of immigration, customs and police officers, the unit on Sunday tracked and intercepted a vessel that had entered …

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by Joey Waldinger
August 28, 2020

Border patrols heightened amid new coronavirus outbreak

In the midst of a new coronavirus outbreak and reports of people illegally entering the territory from abroad, the Customs and Immigration departments have teamed up to increase surveillance of …

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by Joey Waldinger

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