GLADSTONE Valley and Calliope Medical Centre patients are coughing up cash for the administration of two recently closed general practice services. In a statement provided to The Observer, administrators Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants explained why it is charging patients $77 to have their medical records transferred to new healthcare providers following the closures of…
00:00:02 >> It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Maria dealt a massive blow to Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, and most of the island is still in the dark. The storm was devastating, but Puerto Rico’s Electrical Power Authority, or PREPA, was already limping along before Maria. A fact the island’s Governor, Ricardo Rossello, admitted when…
The son of a Sheffield man who was jailed over his gambling debts has backed calls for tighter advertising laws. Adam Bradford, whose father David was sent to prison for fraud after stealing more than £50,000 to fund his habit, said the Local Government Association, or LGA, was right to target a ‘huge rise’ in…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In what has been a record-setting month, LoanGifting welcomes over 100,000 new student loan debtors to its crowdfunding website in September alone. What appears to be: “The Future of Student Debt Relief,” LoanGifting has combined the power of crowdfunding and employee sponsored Student LoanBenefitsTM. LoanGifting could easily attract…
A former oil and gas drilling company has resumed trading on the Australian share market under a new name and purpose: selling Australian products to Chinese tourists and “daigou”. AuMake International sells Australian cosmetics, vitamins, long-life milk, baby products, and wool and leather products through its wholesale warehouses and retail stores. The company wants to…
Hillgrove’s conviction three years ago came after his business Hillgrove PR failed to pay nearly £90,000 in VAT and PAYE payments between 2011 and 2012. He was given a suspended sentence. Over the past five years, he has been served with a number of demands for unpaid personal taxes, settling these with HM Revenue…
(Updates with liquidation deadline, context throughout) By Nichola Saminather TORONTO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Sears Canada on Wednesday won court approval to extend credit protection by a month to Nov. 7, but its creditors set a deadline of this week to liquidate the retailers assets, leaving the company with mere days to decide its fate.…
A bipartisan Congressional group from the Ohio Valley and beyond introduced a new bill to save pensions for retired union coal miners throughout the region. The American Miners Pension Act, or AMP, would secure pensions for about 43,000 miners in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia whose retirement benefits have been undermined by the decline of…
For bondholders sitting on Puerto Rican debt, Hurricane Maria may have come just when they needed it, just as a yearslong battle over the fate of the islands financial future was beginning to turn against them. Or, depending on how the politics shake out, they could see their entire bet go south. Ahead of Maria,…
Video PlayerClose RIGA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — The Latvian government is expected to name the new investor of ailing steel company KVV Liepajas Metalurgs by the end of October, Vladimirs Loginovs, chairman of the Latvian Privatization Agency, said on public radio Wednesday. Citing unconfirmed reports, LETA news agency informed earlier that the steelworks in Latvia’s…