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USVI senator wants five million dollars for
tourism promotion
Wednesday, May 19, 2010/ ST THOMAS, USVI -- US Virgin Islands Senator Wayne James, in Amendment No. 28-763a, which altered the May 4, 2010, $250 million dollar “Borrowing Bill,” has negotiated for up to $5 million dollars to be used by the Department of Tourism to promote the Virgin Islands during the summer months, traditionally the territory’s off-season. “I am in full support of the borrowing,” James said. “Laying off government workers and reducing government services in these trying times would be most unwise, resulting in a downward spiral of the entire Virgin Islands community, which is so heavily reliant upon the purchase power of the over 8,000 people currently employed by the Virgin Islands Government. But just as it was wise to borrow, it is also wise to utilize some of the borrowed funds to support areas of the government which can generate new and additional revenue. “The Tourism Department has consistently generated significant returns
on our comparatively modest advertising dollars. It
only makes sense, then, for us to earmark some of
the borrowing dollars for tourism promotions.
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