Her fellow island mayors shot down Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Titsworth's idea to explore changing how tourist tax funds are allocated.
While the project was approved by the members of the TDC, county commissioners voted it down, although they did approve the funds for Grassy Point Preserve. She said that although vacation rentals bring in about 30% of the total Manatee County tourist development tax revenues, her city doesn’t see a lot of it returned. The funds are assigned to projects by Manatee County commissioners with advice from the county’s Tourist Development Council.
PM the Hon Dr Terrance Drew (left) prepares to present a gift to featured speaker at the PM's Independence Lecture Series Prof Battice. On the right is ...
I can tell you though, that other institutions where I had the privilege to serve such as Social Security, their programme mirrored the TDC Scholarship Programme, and today they have a very active scholarship programme, very similar to TDC. And so to the students, I say that the world has a great deal of possibilities. Kitts Nevis Anguilla Trading and Development Company (TDC) Limited, Mr Michael Morton, who though he retired in 2014 as Chairman, still remains a non-executive Director of the company. He added: “So we want to thank the Warren Tyson Memorial Scholarship for the opportunity and TDC by extension. That is the view of one of the scholarship programme beneficiaries, fourth Prime Minister of the Federation of St. When I went there I met Tau, the speaker for tonight’s event, and that scholarship was very, very important at that time.”