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If the State is to re­vis­it and fund the San­dals mega-project in To­ba­go, the ho­tel must pay prop­er rates of tax and rates of pay to its staff.

There ought to be no tax hol­i­days or con­ces­sions if the en­tire com­plex is to be fund­ed by pub­lic mon­ey and on pub­licly owned land.

That’s ac­cord­ing to for­mer head of the Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) Afra Ray­mond, re­spond­ing to for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s state­ments on March 15 that he has per­son­al­ly reached out to the San­dals’ own­er with a plea to take an­oth­er look at the is­land.