KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that, coming out of recent discussions with representatives of the United Kingdom government, there is possibility that the Air Passenger Duty (APD) band system could be revised in favour of a more equitable scheme that would not put the Caribbean region at a disadvantage with the United States.
Bartlett was speaking to members of the business community and other stakeholders at the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors Luncheon Forum held on Tuesday in New Kingston.
In the region’s continued lobby against the inequity in the APD application, Bartlett and Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) representatives last week met with the UK’s Minister of the Treasury, Leonard Smith; and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jeremy Browne, on the issue.
