As a result of the collaborative effort of the government of Dominica, the International Finance Corporation, and several stakeholders, Dominica has become the first country in the region to launch the second phase of an online registry for companies, which will make conducting business in Dominica easier.
In 2012, the office of Companies and Intellectual Properties undertook reforms to improve the processes and procedure for business entry in Dominica.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Immigration, and National Security, Anne Lewis, stated that the initiative was implemented to make conducting business easier for small and medium-sized businesses on-island.
“The online business registry is intended to make doing business in Dominica easier, to make our small business, and to make our small to medium-sized business have avenues which make life easier for them,” she said, at the launching of the second phase of the project, held at the Fort Young Hotel, on Wednesday.
She stated that phase two of the initiative serves to “enhance the existing online business registry, to deliver additional features, which will make registration of companies seamless and speedy.”
Registrar, Sandra Julien, highlighted the enhancements made to the existing framework to improve user experience.
“Phase two was able to enhance and upgrade the online business registration system, and that accelerated sustainable business entry of firms in the Commonwealth of Dominica. It improved user experience… and it’s now more stable and reliable for online users,” Lewis explained. “We were also able to enhance the data exchange between DSS and Inland Revenue, operating licences, and tax registries, and integrated these processes via electronic platform, at a national level.”
However, she noted that e-payment is not yet available, as negotiations are still ongoing between the Ministry and banks.
Justice Minister, Rayburn Blackmoore, stated that this timely system will make investment opportunities easier.
“…it is important that we put systems in place to make it easier for a business to be set up in Dominica… If we boast of living in the Information Age, we must, therefore, acquire solutions which are consistent with the time in which we live.”
This online business registry eliminates the need for manual registration, and allows users to access records and reports of registered entities in Dominica.
It was revealed that representatives from Antigua and St. Kitts will come to Dominica to observe the program.
I have registered but there are still some glitches. For example after the registration is complete you are supposed to be able to download a PDF which you print then sign and take to their office on Independence Street (where Tropical Trading (sp) used to be up by St. Martin School) and pay.
I have yet to be able to download the form. Hope this can be rectified soon.
Also on the previous site if you forgot your password there was no way for you to retrieve or to be prompted to get a new log in. I hope this too has been addressed.
All in all good initiative.
What is the Website?
A technical system gonna make conducting system easier in Dominica? (lo). Machinery, technical stuff, is it going to reduce and monitor the following abuses in Dominica: ? Meaning raising and monitoring Red Flags
1. The rising & high level of child abuse
2. Domestic violence
3. The abundance & unresolved financial corruption – Red Clinic
4. Stop the abuse of state funds
5. Reduce poverty & poor housing and communities in Dominica
Civil servants presenting this new system are not targeted in this response. Our concern is directed at the inept leadership and governance of this country headed by a questionable corrupt and incompetent Prime Minister Skerrit and his inept government ministers.
Civil servants are there to serve and they do their best under this visionless and corrupt regime. They work hard, are qualified to perform, but their major hindrance is the PM, his immature ministers and the aided and abetted legal brutal scouts who follow him about visionless.
Delete…
How can an online registry make business easier? Is it easier to clear goods at the customs, No, It is easier to compete with the chinese NO, This is just a money making scheme to get more revenue from the private sector, squeeze dem make dem bleed.
big up our local tech talent.
Ah ah ah,at least they could upload a better pic of Ms Julien eh.Quand mem!
Forward we go, praise god for that system……………..