By EARYEL BOWLEG

Tribune Staff Reporter

ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

A NURSERY and preschool owner plead not guilty to failing to pay over $15,000 in National Insurance Board contributions for the past five years.

Joycelyn Newbold of Bridgeway Nursery and Preschool allegedly failed to pay $15,181.29 for her employees from April 2018 to September 2023. She pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Shaka Seville, and her matter was adjourned to March 11, 2025.

Meanwhile, Annette Saintill, trading as Green’s Goodwill Upholstery, was named as the employer who failed to pay National Insurance contributions for her employees, amounting to $893.65, within the prescribed time from July 2013 to September 2014.

She told the court she plans to pay the balance by the first week of December. She is due back in court on December 10, 2024, for a report on the payment.