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 ...
Statia government urges entrepreneurs to make use of additional relief package (Caribisch Nederland – Sint Eustatius)
The Public Entity of St. Eustatius is urging Statian entrepreneurs to make use of the additional benefits of the second part of the emergency relief package rolled out by the central government. This has been announced with a press release posted on the website of the Public Entity of St. Eustatius. From the press release: On June 19, State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations (BZK) Raymond Knops sent ...
2019 Caribbean Forum: Regional Transformation for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth. Panel discussions will also focus on taxation in the tourism sector and developing an appropriate approach to tax incentives
The Government of Barbados, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) organized the 9th Caribbean Forum in Barbados on 6 November 2019, as announced on the website of the IMF. The event brought together senior policymakers, public, private, and multilateral development partners to explore avenues for regional transformation to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. Panel discussions will focus on leveraging institutional arrangements to boost regional integration, ...