Small business owner Elliot Lincoln of Themba Biofuel, a company that converts used cooking oil into bio diesel fuel, is encouraging hotels, restaurants and community members to donate their used cooking oil.

Government has collected $63 million in taxes for the first quarter of the year – a figure that meets the amount budgeted by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) for the period.

Defaulters and non-contributors to the Education Levy came in for criticism and chastisement from D Gisele Isaac, executive secretary of the Board of Education.