• Police officers stand in front of the Dominica House of Assembly, Victoria Street, Roseau
    Local

    When Parliament restricts the press

    Last week the press in Dominica, specifically the Sun newspaper, was hindered in the performance of its duties in the Parliament. Without notification or warning, the police was instructed to ...

  • Petter St. Jean, left, and Ron Green
    Elections

    Education: Looking beyond the numbers

    The story is in the numbers, the proof in the totals, the truth in the statistics; the status of education here delivered in a 1,223 word statement to parliament by ...

  • Dr Vaughn James
    Local

    FATCA and You

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

  • MInister of Education Petter St. Jean, left, and Senator Ron Green
    Elections

    Education: Passing or Failing

    The words are strong, the language is forceful, the sentiments are probably excessive, but the meaning is clear.

  • 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.