Lucht voor toerisme en horeca op Saba: vrijstelling van overheidsvergoedingen aangekondigd (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
Bedrijven op Saba in de horeca- en toeristische sector krijgen voor april tot en met december 2020 extra vrijstelling van het Openbaar Lichaam Saba: de ondernemers hoeven niet de verschillende vergoedingen te betalen die ze normaal aan de overheid betalen. Het bestuurscollege heeft hiertoe onlangs besloten. Dit is bekendgemaakt met een post op de facebookpagina van het openbaar lichaam. Het betreft extra hulpmaatregelen voor bedrijven die financieel zijn getroffen door ...
Statia introduces COVID-19 Relief Package for specific groups that are not already funded by the local or central governments (Caribisch Nederland – Sint Eustatius)
On Monday October 26th, the Public Entity of St. Eustatius has introduced a COVID-19 Social Relief Package with funds received from the Central Government. This relief package is being used to assist specific groups such as farmers, fisherman, the tourism and hospitality sector, residents, radio stations and foundations that are not already funded by the local or central governments. This has been announced in a press release posted on the ...
Saba implemented additional support measures (one-time relief package for apartment owners, taxi drivers, and other business owners): 35 persons qualified and received a one-time relief of $2,000 (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
In July 2020, the Public Entity Saba published the applications for a one-time relief package targeted towards apartment owners, taxi drivers, and other business owners that had not received any of the other packages provided by the Ministries of SZW and EZK up until then (see below). It concerns additional support measures in order to alleviate the burden of costs related to the Covid-19 crisis. In total, 52 people applied ...
Saba establishes a one-time relief package for residents and waives business license fee (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
The Public Entity Saba (het Openbaar Lichaam Saba) has established a one-time relief package for residents and waives business license fee. This relief package by the public entity is an additional measure to the earlier offered assistance by the Dutch Government through the economic relief package, which includes salary subsidy and a fixed cost allowance for self-employed persons who have entirely lost their income (being, respectively: the ‘Tijdelijke subsidieregeling loonkosten ...
IMF Policy Tracker on Aruba. Summarizes the key economic responses governments are taking to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Aruba)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has posted a Policy Tracker on its website. The Policy Tracker summarizes the key economic responses governments are taking to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tracker includes 193 economies. The Policy Tracker also contains a section on Aruba: “Aruba has reported 60 positive cases (with no deaths) as of April 3, 2020. The Coronavirus outbreak will affect Aruba through ...