{"id":128998,"date":"2021-05-14T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=128998"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:25:26","slug":"new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-405069383\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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\/><\/a><\/div><p>The Taxi Organizations representatives enquired about a rate change that has long been promised but has not materialized.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1047615414\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"IMG_0041\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0041.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0041.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0041.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0041.jpg 819w, 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The Cabinet gave the leaders the assurance that come May 15, 2021, those rate changes will apply. Information Minister Melford Nicholas explains how this will work The new rates affect only those in the tourism sector and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15 - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tourism, Antigua, Barbuda, Travel, Taxi New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15 -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tourism, Antigua, Barbuda, Travel, Taxi New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-14T16:05:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-14T16:25:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TAXI.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-14T16:05:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-14T16:25:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\"},\"wordCount\":97,\"commentCount\":10,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1440\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TAXI.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/new-taxi-rates-in-the-tourism-sector-come-into-effect-on-may-15\/\",\"name\":\"New taxi rates in the tourism sector come into effect on May 15 - 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