Calls by A&B Prime Minister Gaston Browne for Caribbean leaders to seek help from Venezuela in a bid to combat rising fuel costs are receiving regional support. Venezuela was once a major oil exporter to the Caribbean, particularly under the PetroCaribe energy initiative which saw refined fuel products shipped to Antigua and Barbuda among other […]
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Visitors to Queensland could soon see a new tourist levy added to their bills as the state considers new ways for the industry to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
A panel of experts tasked with rebooting Queensland's tourism sector, which ground to a standstill during the pandemic's closed border period, are suggesting a new tax to be introduced by local councils.
The panel believes with millions in new funding, the industry could be worth $44 billion a year to the state's economy by 2032.
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John O'Shea from The Langham Gold Coast said the opening of the new Langham hotel has been delayed for years, and they're now hoping to catch up financially.
"We've had a lot of challenges, a pandemic, a war, supply chain issues," he said.
While domestic tourism has reached pre-pandemic levels, international tourism remains down by 60 per cent.
The new tax would contribute to the maintenance of state tourist attractions and national parks.
"We don't just want to build back to where we were, we want to see the industry grow," Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchcliffe said.
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"We have very different destinations, that have very different needs."
The tourist levy would be added to nightly accommodation bills or as a small fee when entering some of the states national parks
Fees would be determined by individual councils.
"I think an accommodation levy, a visitor levy of five to eight per cent in the first couple of years, would be appropriate," Kevin Byrne from the Cairns Tourism Industry Association said.
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) – World Health Organization (WHO) experts meet on Thursday to evaluate whether monkeypox constitutes an international emergency, its highest form of alert. read more Only six such emergencies have previously been declared: COVID-19 (2020), the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (2019), Zika virus (2016), polio (2014), West Africa’s Ebola […]
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June 23 (Reuters) – Heads of government from Commonwealth nations will meet in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Friday and Saturday to discuss cooperation on topics ranging from green energy to rising food prices to the war in Ukraine, among others. Here are some key facts about the Commonwealth and the Kigali summit, which was […]
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MEXICO CITY, June 22 (Reuters) – The United States will announce an offer of 300,000 work visas to Mexicans and Central Americans when the Mexican president visits Washington next month, Mexico’s interior minister said Wednesday. “Every day we’re talking with the American government,” Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez said in a speech while on a […]
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Summary Bodies of priests, lay person slain on Monday found Pope expresses shock over killings Murder suspect named, search underway MEXICO CITY, June 22 (Reuters) – The bodies of two Jesuit priests and a tour guide shot dead this week in a gang-ravaged area of northern Mexico were found on Wednesday after a major search, […]
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By Robert Plummer BBC News The interior minister of Ecuador has said police cannot guarantee security in the town of Puyo, after clashes on Tuesday in which a police station was attacked and one protester died. The minister, Patricio Carrillo, said 18 officers were still missing. The violence broke out on the ninth day of […]
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By Oprah Flash BBC News, West Midlands Reuben Campbell was turned away from so many venues as a young black man he decided to set up his own nightclub. Facing yet more racism as bank managers refused to lend him money, he was undeterred – and now a film tells his story of success. A […]
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By George Wright BBC News Eight medical personnel are to stand trial accused of criminal negligence in the death of legendary Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona. A judge has ordered a culpable homicide trial after a medical panel found Maradona’s treatment was rife with “deficiencies and irregularities”. Maradona died in November 2020 of a heart attack […]
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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS — The Department of Statistics and Economic Planning in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) continues to urge residents to cooperate with enumerators who visit their homes to collect data for the 2021/2022 Population and Housing Census. Mrs. Dorriel Tross-Phillip, Director of Statistics, while giving an update on the ongoing census on June 21, 2022, noted […]
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