{"id":118892,"date":"2020-10-25T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=118892"},"modified":"2020-10-25T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:22:48","slug":"caricom-chairman-says-there-is-need-for-lowering-of-airport-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/caricom-chairman-says-there-is-need-for-lowering-of-airport-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"CARICOM Chairman Says There is need for Lowering of Airport Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says he believes \u201cthere is a general acceptance\u201d within the Caribbean for a lowering of taxes so as to encourage intra-regional travel.<\/strong><\/p>

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Gonsalves, who is chairman of the 15-member regional integration grouping, CARICOM, told a panel discussion organised by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) on Thursday night, that the regional governments have come to the realisation that there is a need to lower airline taxes in order to make the sector profitable.<\/p>\n

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He told the discussion on the \u201cCOVID-19 pandemic and regional air transport\u201d that the governments would have to be prepared to fund the operations of their airports in the short term.<\/p>

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\u201cSt. Vincent and the Grenadines, we have already cut our taxes from US$40 to US$20, Grenada has announced that they are doing that \u2026I know Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister in Dominica is talking the same thing, Prime Minister (Allen) Chastanet (of St. Lucia) is talking the same thing, though Antigua and Barbuda has a departure tax plus this other kind of development levy or fee,.<\/p>

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\u2018There is I think a general acceptance that we have to lower the taxes. It means that the governments will have to put more money from the Consolidated Fund in the short run to operate their airports and move into a model to make them places to do business in addition to just being locals for the movement of passengers,\u201d said Gonsalves, who has lead responsibility for transportation within the quasi-CARICOM cabinet.<\/p>\n

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Regional economist, Dr, Justin Ram, who also participated in the programme, regarding infrastructure \u201cthe airports that we have in the region are huge cost centers and it is actually one of the reasons we have high taxes and fees.<\/p>

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\u201cIf you think about it for our size of population in the Caribbean, if we were a single land mass we would probably only have about three airports\u2026but because\u2026we are small islands we have many airports to contend with and those are quite costly. So I think the model around airports and how we utilise infrastructure we need to change, we need to stop thinking about them as cost centers and start changing them into revenue centers\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ram said that Caribbean countries needed to re-think their policies regarding transportation and airport development.<\/p>

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\u201cI think it is time for us in the Caribbean to have a single regulator. So if, for example, I am authorised to operate out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines that should give me clearance to operate anywhere in the Caribbean.<\/p>

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\u201cI think this is where we need to go, and more importantly, I think having a single Caribbean airspace is critical also for the passengers. It means that once I enter the Caribbean through immigration, I should not have to go through immigration, customs, again. We really need to have one set of rules so that we have that single airspace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gonsalves has defended the decision of Caribbean countries to establish a \u201ctravel bubble\u201d so as to encourage travel given the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Caribbean economies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe idea of the bubble is that really once the territories are at the same level with respect of infection and the other things\u2026is that you would not require PCR tests upon arrival in any country which is in the bubble\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He said once the person undergoes the usual tests, \u201cyou will move safely without requiring a PCR either when you leaving or when you are arriving\u2026there would not be any quarantine either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about a management of risks but you will have to be in the territory for 48 days, you can\u2019t go from St. Kitts to Miami and you come from Miami\u2026to St. Vincent, you will have to either do your PCR out of the USA in Miami or you will have to do it when you come in St. Vincent and there will be a period of quarantine because you would have not have been in the Caribbean territory for 14 days continuously\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the bubble has that defining element too,\u201d said Gonsalves.<\/p>\n

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