Mayor wants a piece of cruise tax for city

After riding into office on a tidal wave of popular support, the U.D.P. City Council did not take long to realise that municipal governance has less to do with glory than with dollars and cents. Since March, Mayor Zenaida Moya has been badgering the P.U.P. central government for what she claims is the city’s fair share of national revenue … and today she upped the ante. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports.

Janelle Chanona, Reporting
According to the laws of Belize, every cruise ship passenger that visits Belize pays a head tax of seven U.S. dollars. Of that amount, four dollars goes to the owners of the Fort Street Tourism Village, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust receives one dollar and forty cents and the remaining one-sixty belongs to the Belize Tourism Board. But if the Belize City Council has its way, that formula will change to distribute one U.S. dollar to the Council, PACT, and B.T.B respectively.

Zenaida Moya, Belize City Mayor