Antigua authorities pronounces amnesty for individuals financially impacted by COVID-19

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has killed 146 folks and contaminated 9,098 in Antigua and Barbuda since March 2020, has resulted in an amnesty being supplied to those that are “nonetheless struggling” to manage financially.

Residential clients who owe the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) for electrical energy and water and are in arrears earlier than and as much as December 31, 2021, can have their money owed to APUA forgiven, in keeping with a press release made following the weekly Cupboard assembly.

“Clients who pay the present month’s obligation, benefiting from this amnesty, will probably be reconnected by November 1st, 2022,” the assertion mentioned, including that unpaid property taxes as much as December 31, 2021 can even profit from an amnesty program, offered they pay the present 12 months’s tax.

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“Residents and residents with excellent hospital payments, owed to the Sir Lester Hen Medical Centre, and in arrears for greater than 180 days, can have their steadiness forgiven additionally, beneath the amnesty program rolled out by the Cupboard,” the assertion added with out disclosing the quantity of funds to be foregone because of the initiative.

It mentioned Well being Minister, Sir Molwyn Joseph, had knowledgeable Cupboard that the COVID-19 pandemic “has clearly been on the decline however cautions the weak to proceed to follow good hand hygiene and different measures”.

The assertion additionally urged individuals who haven’t but been vaccinated to take action.

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