Jagdeo under fire from regional hoteliers

Josef Forstmayr

President Bharrat Jagdeo has come in for strong criticism from the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) for dismissing its concerns about the “tax-riddled industry”.

At the just-concluded 32nd Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, in St Kitts and Nevis, Jagdeo rubbished the claim that regional governments were taxing the hotel industry out of existence,