• Rev. Dr William Watty
    Commentaries

    The CCJ debate – a commentary

    By Rev. Dr. William W. Watty

  • Dr Vaughn James
    Local

    FATCA and You

    The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): Restoring Balance to the United States Tax Laws, oran Example of Unbridled American Imperialism?

  • Two dancers at the opening of the World Creole Music Festival
    Local

    Es Zoh Pawe!

    From Trinidad and Haiti and Nigeria and Puerto Rico they'll come to play powerful, pulsating music for three nights close to the banks of one of Dominica's finest rivers.

  • Dr Vaughn James
    Local

    FATCA and You

    Last week, we recalled the Great Capitulation as CARICOM bowed to the OECD's efforts to arrest the flight of capital from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions. One by one, the CARICOM ...

  • Bunch of Bananas
    Elections

    Raymond Austrie: banana could still be king

    Call it the cry of a banana man.

  • Dr Vaughn James
    Local

    FATCA and You - Part II: Beyond Harmful Tax Competition

    In the first installment of this series, we discussed the true genesis of FATCA – the OECD's Anti-Harmful Tax Competition Initiative which began in 1998 and ended in victory for ...

  • Dr Vaughn James
    Local

    FATCA and You

    On March 18, 2010, United States President Barack Obama signed into law the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment ("HIRE") Act. The statute included a section that had been originally introduced ...

  • Hartley Henry
    Local

    Invisible man

    To most Dominicans it remains just a name. There's still no face or feature or form.

  • Mya Angelou
    World

    Maya Angelou – an American messenger, a Universal message

    A remarkable American voice has been stilled, but the entire world is poorer for it. Many of us – including me – never met Maya Angelou, yet her writing and ...

  • Agriculture Minister Matthew Walter delivers speech at official function for the opening of the Dominica-China Modern Agricultural Centre at One Mile Portsmouth
    Local

    Dead or Alive

    Cuthbert Vidal has walked the earth for over six decades and for six decades, he has ploughed the earth.

  • FILE PHOTO: Government Hotel under construction at Portsmouth
    Local

    State hotels: will they compete with private sector hotels

    It has generated howls of pleasure from deep within the bosom of the ruling caste and, in this case, the choir is led by the tourism minister.

  • Agriculture Minister Matthew Walter delivers speech at official function for the opening of the Dominica-China Modern Agricultural Centre at One Mile Portsmouth
    Elections

    Matthew Walter: dead things don't move

    Mathew Walter, the Minister of Agriculture, has a simple answer for persons who say agriculture died and is about to be buried, under his watch. Dead things don't move. And, ...