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Local
FATCA and You
July 3, 2014The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA): Restoring Balance to the United States Tax Laws, oran Example of Unbridled American Imperialism?
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Local
Es Zoh Pawe!
July 1, 2014From 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.
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Local
FATCA and You
June 27, 2014Last 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 ...
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Elections
Raymond Austrie: banana could still be king
June 24, 2014Call it the cry of a banana man.
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Local
FATCA and You - Part II: Beyond Harmful Tax Competition
June 20, 2014In 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 ...
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Local
FATCA and You
June 16, 2014On 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 ...
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Local
Invisible man
June 11, 2014To most Dominicans it remains just a name. There's still no face or feature or form.
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World
Maya Angelou – an American messenger, a Universal message
May 29, 2014A 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 ...
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Local
Dead or Alive
May 27, 2014Cuthbert Vidal has walked the earth for over six decades and for six decades, he has ploughed the earth.
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Local
State hotels: will they compete with private sector hotels
May 21, 2014It 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.
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Elections
Matthew Walter: dead things don't move
May 20, 2014Mathew 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, ...