After months of on-again-off-again reports about a crematorium for Antigua and Barbuda, it appears that the Browne Administration has made a decision in favour of an entity called Meyer’s Funeral Home Ltd.
A Cabinet decision – dated Wednesday, March 20; stamped on April 3; and validated by the Customs and Excise Division on April 5 – grants duty-free concessions and a lease of property to operate a funeral home and crematorium to this company.
The initial approval, which was granted on March 13, is for waivers of import duty and the Antigua and Barbuda Sales Tax (ABST) on the importation of items related to the operation of the said business – “subject to site identification and report to Cabinet.”
Sources told a local news outlet they find it strange that – up to four weeks after approval – no mention of this Cabinet decision has been made in either the weekly notes or the post-Cabinet press briefings, given the public interest in the matter.
