Mr. Lee Clarke

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  Published on: 10/20/2009    Last Visited: 10/20/2009  

  The city lottery is the brainchild of Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke.
  
  At the KSAC's monthly meeting last Tuesday, Clarke expressed disappointment over the length of time it was taking the BGLC to approve the application - which was made on November 11 last year - and said the KSAC would ask "the authorities to look into" the matter.
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  According to Clarke, the approval of the licence is especially urgent given that councils are now "required to fund 80 per cent of their budgets" and considering the "concurrent loss of revenues from building applications and road funding".
  
  "The KSAC wants to introduce the (lottery) at the national level to meet some of the funding for its budget as well as the budgets of other councils," Clarke said, adding that the lottery is projected to provide direct employment for some 2,000 persons.

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  Published on: 6/13/2007    Last Visited: 6/14/2007  

  CLARKE ... the guilty developers are not only cheating density but are also cheating the government of taxes.
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  We will ask that their licences be withdrawn and that they pay a fine of two million dollars per unit," said Lee Clarke, chairman of the Building and Town Planning Committee.
  
  Clarke said that the KSAC would meet with the Real Estate board, the Developers Association, and the Finance and Local Government ministries at the end of June to discuss the problem.
  
  After the meeting he told the Observer that the KSAC was encountering an increasing number of cases where developers were breaching the approved building plans.
  
  He mentioned a development of 19 two-bedroom townhouses on Hopefield Avenue for which the building committee approved plans on December 27, 2005.According to Clarke, a recent inspection of the site revealed that the developers were attempting to construct 16 three-bedroom townhouse units.
  
  "Some developers have not been building according to the approved plans for a very long time.From time to time we see advertisements by the Real Estate Board for three-bedroom units that the Building and Town Planning Committee had approved as two-bedroom units," Clarke said.
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  Clarke, however, said that the KSAC could ask developers to "lick down the loft".

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  Published on: 10/23/2009    Last Visited: 10/23/2009  

  Deputy Mayor of Kingston, Lee Clarke, says a portion of the earnings from the lottery will be used to upgrade public infrastructure in Kingston and St. Andrew.
  
  "Profit would be going to fix the roads, drains and gullies which there can be no amount of taxes in Jamaica that we can put on the people to fix these roads. Kingston and St. Andrew alone carries 2,200 roads,"
  
  "The government has also asked the council to take over the land settlement roads that have been there for quite a while, 20 years without any improvement at all so that would be a major cost," Mr. Clarke said.

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  Published on: 6/23/2008    Last Visited: 6/24/2008  

  A team from the KSAC, including Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke and Town Clerk Errol Greene, tour a commercial building in Cross Roads which has been ordered by the courts to be demolished.
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  "We will be meeting with the attorney-general to get the Cease Work Notice and the Stop Notice upgraded to documents of the court so that when they ignore them, they will be in contempt of court," Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke told the Observer.
  
  At present, the documents are issued by the Corporation in its capacity as the local planning authority.However, many of the breaches now on its books, which number between 160 and 175 based on Observer calculations, are long-standing offences, at least one of which dates back some 20 years.
  
  "Most of them are with our lawyer and are now being prepared for court action," said Clarke, who also chairs the Building and Town Planning Committee.

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  Published on: 1/22/2008    Last Visited: 1/22/2008  

  Deputy Mayor, Lee Clarke told the Observer that the KSAC wants to earn at least $5 billion from the venture to fix the 2,000 roads and countless drains in the KSA, and by extension the rest of the island.
  
  "We are looking at being able to put to the council at least a minimum of $5 billion yearly because the present costing to fix roads in Kingston and St Andrew is well over $100 billion.So at least in the first five years we would have gone a long way in fixing and repairing roads and drains," Clarke said. "Its (the lottery's) aim and objective is to fix the roads and drains in this city of Kingston and St Andrew and wider Jamaica.The conditions on the roads now are terrible and the whole road network is at least 20 to 30 years old so the surface has become dry, so the least rain we get destroys the surface."
  
  The KSAC has already submitted an application to the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission for a licence to operate the city lottery and Clarke said they have also approached Supreme Ventures Limited, the island's sole gaming company, for assistance in running the lottery.
  
  "Our lawyers have had meetings with the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission already and we are satisfied that we will be given a licence on the basis that we provide them with some details about the lottery," he said."It is not that we want to operate a lotto pot, but we are going to approach the present company and we have had an informal meeting already.So if they can bring us on board, because they would have already had the complete systems in place, for the benefit of the city, then we would not go ahead and form a new company."
  
  Clarke also pointed out that the KSAC is also engaged in "favourable" dialogue with a financier that will be required to put up at least $1 billion for the venture.He further explained that the venture, which will operate in the same capacity as the current lottery, would not be managed by KSAC, but managed by a company formed by the KSAC and the Local Government.
  
  Furthermore, Clarke said he hopes that the negotiations will be at an advanced stage by year end.A committee has also been set up to oversee the implementation of the venture.
  
  The city lottery is the brainchild of the deputy mayor.He told the Observer that the idea has been in the works for 10 years, but, the plans were put on hold by the Marie Atkins administration.
  
  Clarke explained that he saw the lottery as a possible solution because the money currently allotted to fix the roads and drains is inadequate.
  
  "The only way that our city council can fix these roads is through the contribution of taxes which when examined is still not the amount needed to fix the road," he said, adding that the council currently receives $10 million per month from local government to maintain and fix roads and gullies.
  
  "It is completely inadequate, so for the past three years we have embarked on this programme for a city lotto to fix the roads.This has been done in most of the major cities around the world such as Miami.New York and London," he said.
  
  "The road has become unbearable to the residents of the city.Areas such as Lawrence Tavern, Papine, Irish Town and Bull Bay Divisions have roads that need between $30 million and $50 million to be fixed."
  
  Meantime, Clarke said the KSAC is hoping to share some of the earnings with other parish councils in the rest of the island to fix road and gullies.
  
  "When we draft the rules and regulations maybe 80 per cent could go to Kingston and St Andrew and then two per cent to each of the other parish councils," he suggested.
  
  "We are going at it full speed because no matter how you see the public at ease now, if we don't fix the roads we are going to have a hard time as a government and as a council to satisfy them," he said, adding that he has received positive responses to the venture for residents in the KSA.
  
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  Published on: 8/15/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  According to committee chair Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke, Dibbs has not shown any respect for the KSAC for years, forcing the corporation to take the matter to the Supreme Court.
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  We are going to carry out the order of the court," Clarke insisted.
  
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  Published on: 7/12/2006    Last Visited: 7/13/2006  

  YESTERDAY KINGSTON'S DEPUTY MAYOR LEE CLARKE, MADE AN URGENT CALL FOR THE N.S.W.M.A TO EMPLOY NEW PRIVATE CONTRACTORS TO BOOST THE GARBAGE COLLECTION DRIVE.AS ANDREW CANON REPORTS, THE SITUATION IS WORSENING IN SOME COMMUNITIES.
  
  MIRANT CORPORATION YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED PLANS TO DIVEST ITS HOLDINGS IN THE JAMAICA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, J.P.S.THE IMPENDING DIVESTMENT COMES AS THE COMPANY WHICH EMERGED FROM CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY IN JANUARY, SAID IT WILL NOW CONCENTRATE ON ITS U.S. BUSINESS.IN MARCH 2001, MIRANT ACQUIRED 80% OF J.P.S FOR 200 MILLION U.S DOLLARS.THE EXACT PRICE MIRANT IS SEEKING TO SELL J.P.S FOR HAS NOT BEEN DISCLOSED, BUT AT CURRENT VALUATION, AFTER IMPROVEMENTS THE COMPANY MADE IN EFFICIENCY AND GENERATING CAPACITY, THE PRICE COULD EXCEED 300 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS.OTHER OPERATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE PHILLIPINES ARE ALSO PART OF THE DIVESTMENT PLAN, WHICH COULD HELP MIRANT REDUCE ITS 4.5 BILLION U.S. DOLLAR DEBT BALANCE.MEANWHILE, AS MIRANT GENERATES CASH THROUGH THESE SALES, IT PLANS TO CONTINUE RETURNING CASH TO ITS SHAREHOLDERS.THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE GOVERNMENT SAID IT'S CONSIDERING SELLING ITS 20% STAKE IN THE COMPANY.MIRANT SAID J.P.S WILL BE LISTED ON ITS BOOKS AS DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS BY THE START OF THE THIRD QUARTER, AND EXPECTS THE SALE TO BE COMPLETED BY MID 2007.THE SALE OF THE J.P.S IS HOWEVER SUBJECTED TO REGULATORY AND OTHER APPROVALS AND CONSENT.
  
  MEANWHILE, THE J.P.S SAYS ITS CUSTOMERS WHO PAY THEIR ELECTRICITY BILLS AT PAYMASTER OUTLETS LOCATED AT J.P.S OFFICES WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO PAY THE 30 DOLLAR TRANSACTION FEE THAT PAYMASTER WILL IMPOSE STARTING JULY 18.YESTERDAY, PAYMASTER ANNOUNCED IT WILL INTRODUCE THE SERVICE CHARGE FOR TRANSACTION OF BILL PAYMENTS.THE CHARGE COMES IN THE WAKE OF ITS MAIN RIVAL, BILL EXPRESS CHARGING A 35-DOLLAR SERVICE CHARGE EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR TRANSACTIONS.CHARGES FOR BILL PAYMENTS AT PAYMASTER HAVE A SWEETENER THOUGH, WITH THE COMPANY PROVIDING AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRANSACTION CHARGE.THE COMPANY SAID LOYAL CUSTOMERS, BOTH CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL, CAN OPT TO BECOME MEMBERS AND PAY A FIXED ANNUAL FEE AND IN EXCHANGE, THE CHARGE FOR THEIR BILL PAYMENTS WILL BE WAIVED.
  
  THE OPPOSITION JAMAICA LABOUR PARTY HAS ADDED ITS VOICE TO THE CALL FOR INCREASED WAGES FOR THE ISLAND'S NURSES.

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  At the Finance Committee meeting, Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke pointed out that the electricity bill for the markets was $20 million annually.He said that in the Pearnel Charles Arcade, for example, some vendors used several pieces of electrical equipment, such as fans, radios, televisions, food vending machines and sound systems. Clarke said that the electricity savings "can go towards paying off the statutory deductions".

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  Published on: 10/30/2007    Last Visited: 10/30/2007  

  Deputy mayor Lee Clarke said that a letter should be written to the minister of state for local government, Robert Montaque, to request that someone with expertise be appointed to review the situation and "put us on a path of enhancement".

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  The signatories to the account are former town clerk, Errol Green, Mayor Desmond McKenzie, Deputy Mayor Lee Clarke and then city treasurer Lincoln Evans.

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