Creating Opportunities, Empowering Communities

Mrs. Grace Stephen

Investment is seen as a key pillar for economic development. Investment, particularly private investments, is seen as the engine of growth to stimulate employment, generate foreign exchange earnings, and increase the standard of living and by extension reduce poverty. It is through investment that the multiplier effect to create opportunities is...READ MORE

Infrastructure & Investment During the Last Two Decades

Boiling Lake Dominica

In the early 1980s I remember a number of infrastructural projects going on in Dominica. It was simply amazing as the entire island appeared to be going through some type of transition. Subsequent to that, the Canefield to Pond Casse Road became the main road when travelling from...READ MORE

The Absence of Mergers and Acquisitions in the OECS

OECS Islands

In recent times conglomerates in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have been engaged in significant cross border mergers and acquisitions (M & A). This activity has taken place in the banking, financial, wholesale, retail and some manufacturing sectors. In the OECS Dominica’s National Commercial Bank recognizing its individual...READ MORE

Proposed Tax Incentives For Versatile Business Enterprises

Tax Cuts For Serious Investors

Invest Dominica Authority (IDA) in Coordination with the Physical Planning Division and the SFA 2006 (Special Framework of Assistance) in the Ministry of Tourism and Legal Affairs. Have developed draft legislation for Special Development Areas (SDA). The proposed legislation will provide an attractive range of tax incentives to business enterprises...READ MORE

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