PM Browne: Strong Revenue Year

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PM Browne: Strong Revenue Year

The government is reporting a significant revenue increase this year, driven by a higher Antigua and Barbuda Sales Tax (ABST) and boosted economic activity.

By the end of May, revenues had risen by over $35 million compared to the same period in 2023. Reports from the Customs Division indicate that by the end of June, revenues increased by $40 million from the same time last year, totaling over $235 million.

With these increased revenues, the government plans to launch a comprehensive road construction and repair program, purchasing heavy-duty equipment to reduce dependency on rented machinery. Prime Minister Browne highlighted a commitment to spending over $150 million on road improvements in the coming years.

Barbuda will also benefit from this program, with plans to construct ten miles of concrete roads to enhance the road networks on both islands.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. The more Gaston talk, the more I am sceptical – maybe he’s now become part of the “chattering class”

    As a hardworking Antiguan businessman, I’m so fortunate to be around a lot of doers and less talkers.

    Since the Prime Minister came to prominence in 2014 he’s made enough economic and infrastructure promises to have developed Antigua & Barbuda 2-3 times over.

    AND PEOPLE STILL HANG ON TO EVERY WORD THAT COME OUT AH HE MOUT’. TARL!

  2. @brixtonian you could not have said it better! I do not know how people have not caught on to what he does. He just raises peoples hope to make them feel that the country is on the rise, only for them, after some years, realize that what he said did not come to fruition.

  3. Give me the schedule date for the projected project implementation, and I will blink my eyes with bated breath of weathered consternation. But for the knee-jerk reactionary posturing for partisan hooray! As so to boost the egos of the feathered few with contact content. The infrastructure of Antigua 🇦🇬 Barbuda is one steeply bound in colonial legacy of inherited satiation: but as of 1834y the stagnation of our infrastructural growth is still being manifested by the dilapidation of the structural environs of our capital town- St. John’s: desirous of impactful real time twenty first century enhancement. The roads networking was not earmarked or intended for vehicles of the volume and tonnage that must now contend to traverse these tracts intended, and meant for horse-drawn-buggy-cart. Our vision of inspiration for National Ascendancy has not moved us away from the satiated dependency-that is inherently fringe trappings of some bygone monarchy denied days that has left us wanting. Does the streets of England bear any resemblance to this, which we have grown accustomed to? ( I think not.) But for the ineptitude of Governance to address and, arrest this insipid situation of reticence: we will continue to be left continuously wanting.

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