Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Airport Tax badly timed

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJieDAlHr00&feature=player_embedded

http://htsstlucia.com/2011_News/May/HTS_News_May_10th_2011.htm#cha

He mentioned there are 4 or 5 other countries with higher airport taxes in the Caribbean.
Does anyone know which countries these are?

Anonymous said...

As u UWP supporter, why are u going to anti to what Chastanet is doing.
they will call u SOUCERE as u know you are

Anonymous said...

http://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/2011/05/06/departure-tax.html

Some data from other OECS countries

Sen. Skerritt said he is very aware that from July, St. Kitts' RLB will have the second highest ticket charges for airport users in the OECS, after St Lucia which is now US $60 (having moved from US $25 from May 1, 2011). Departure tax in Antigua and Barbuda it's US$28 per person for non-CARICOM citizens and EC $50 for CARICOM citizens, EC$40 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, US$22 in Dominica, Grenada EC $50 and in Montserrat it is EC$35 (US$13) for Caricom nationals and EC$55 (US$21) for non-nationals.

Anonymous said...

Why ask about timing, this government does not trully care about winning or losing an election, they are hoping to win, but if they lose, they will get as much as they can from it. We already know this Airport project is supposed to be a palm greaser and then Pelay's asks. Yeah Pelay, you should now ask your friends to let you put honesty in the National Pledge because we need a redundancy for these guys in the government to get the message of what is expected in public office

Anonymous said...

Sorry Pelay you can say what you want... but St Lucia has adopted a policy of dual citizenship, so anybody born in St lucia whether they have pledged allegiance to another country OR NOT is St Lucian....why would you want to take away someone's nationality .. I am sure you are aware that this very same persons make contributions to the development of the country .... check the Ministry of finance and they may be able to tell you about the remittances which are sent to St Lucia...in both Jamaica and Haiti this makes a tremendous difference in the standard of living...

True you mentioned that for purposes of the tax they should not be St Lucians ... but this is tantamount to depriving people of their nationality for money. Please let us observe the constitution of our country ....

Anonymous said...

Jeff, you are such a pathetic UWP HACK!! You want to criticize a new UWP policy, but you do so as if you are afraid to make your point. You have never been known to write or even sing, so timidly. This doesn't look like you at all!!! What are you afraid of, Pelay? Why are you making your point so apologetically? For a big man and a calypsonian, its a bloody SHAME that you behave like a little jokey apologist!! What do you think the UWPees can do to you if you criticize their policy? Will they take away your wheelchair? You say that you "would like to see the government go back to the drawing board with this one," as if you are afraid to simply say ITS A TERRIBLE IDEA AT THIS TIME!!! Wake up and be a MAN, Pelay!!! Donna.