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Published 14 November 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Dwyer Astaphan to PM Harris: “What is going on with our taxes?”

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 14, 2017 – St. Kitts and Nevis is collecting less taxes in 2017 under the Timothy Harris Team Unity Government than in 2008 under the Denzil Douglas Labour Party administration.

The startling figures have been disclosed by Dwyer Astaphan, who helped put together the three-party coalition comprising the People’s Labour Party (PLP), the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) and the Peoples Action Movement (PAM).

Astaphan wants to know why millions of dollars more went into the Treasury in 2008 than in 2016 and 2017 from drivers’ licences, bank licences, corporate income tax and hotel and room tax.

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Published 14 November 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Duty-free concessions to PM Harris’ family members and friends bleeding the Treasury, says Dr. Douglas

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 14, 2017 – Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas says duty-free concessions to every family member and close friends have led to significant reduction in revenue streams into the Consolidated Fund of the Federal Government of St. Kitts and Nevis.

“We have seen a situation where the revenue collected is significantly down, expenditure has continued and naturally the IMF is going to insist that you have rely on steady streams of income which are taxes,” said Dr. Douglas, a former prime minister and minister of finance.

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Published 14 November 2017

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Denzil Douglas slams Speaker Perkins; tells nation not to be distracted by PM Harris’ political shenanigans

Basseterre, St. Kitts, November 14, 2017 – Leader of the Opposition the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has  called on citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis to remain focused on holding the Team Unity Government’s feet to the fire.

In a statement Tuesday, he called on the citizenry to continue to highlight the corruption, nepotism and cronyism practised by the government, on the poor performance of the government ministers and the hardship suffered by the people, and on the slipping of the local economy into negative territory.

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