THE PROPOSED $20 FEE to be imposed on barrels being collected from the Bridgetown Port should raise $1.2 million to support port operations.
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner said a situation would no longer be allowed in which everyone else benefited from the barrel business except Barbados Port Inc. which had to do all the legwork, without compensation.
Dispelling a misconception held by people collecting barrels who thought their money was being collected by the port, Sandiford-Garner told the Senate yesterday: “The port is the entity doing the lion share of the work but never received one red cent.”
She said whereas the Customs department received a $10 processing fee, the broker received fees, the truck driver was paid, the Barbados Port Inc. “receives not one cent”. (GC)
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