Capacity Building workshop continues

Some participants at the employment session.

Yesterday was day two of a three-day workshop being conducted by the Dominica Association of Industry & Commerce to transfer knowledge and skills to Chinese traders and other merchants who have displayed a need for information and tact to better manage their businesses.

The workshop is the result of concerns shown by the local merchant community about the manner and ethic of trade conducted by Chinese merchants.

Today’s final workshop session will be the all-important subject of VAT and will be presented by senior officials of the Inland Revenue Department.  Sessions begins at 9 am at the PSU building on Valley Road, Roseau.

Interaction at this final session will also be shaped by recent IMF disclosures that had it not been for the introduction of VAT, the Dominican economy and public expenditure would have been heavily compromised.

Another section of the audience.

Meanwhile, at yesterday’s session, participants were led by Labour Commissioner, Matthew Leblanc, into the laws and practices of labour management and relations in Dominica.

Special attention was placed on employment standards and other labour conditions imposed on employers by law and convention. The Labour Commissioner took his audience into the application of international labour law and how these affect Dominica’s image as a compliant member of the global community.

From the perspective of participants, the session met its objectives of transferring critical knowledge to business players that they can immediately implement in their operations.

Questions and answers on leaves of absence and disciplinary procedures were quite interactive and stimulating.

The end-of-session feedback was promising.

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2 Comments

  1. Eyes on Dominica
    September 24, 2010
  2. In case you didn't know
    September 23, 2010

    The workshops being held now is to appease, to show local businessmen that something is being done because concerns were expressed by the local merchant community about the manner and ethic of trade conducted by Chinese merchants. Hasn’t that situation re. non payment of VAT etc. been existing for years now?

    Frankly, what kind of knowledge and skills that DAIC, Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise could transfer to Chinese traders and businessmen to better manage their businesses? Dominica is heavily dependent on the Chinese Govt. for financial assistance. The Chinese people here and abroad know that too well. That means the Chinese know and are doing business much better than Dominicans. Their establishment and control of businesses all over Roseau is proof of that. Their goods are much cheaper, although very inferior. They are selling only goods made in China. They have opened the Dominican market for sale of their Chinese goods. Because of their better business knowledge and skills they have been driving the local Dominican entrepreneurs out of business. Our locals are forced to close. They cannot compete with the Chinese. The Chinese have studied and know how, what to do, to evade paying the necessary duties to Customs as well as ducking or not adhering to compliance to the regulations for paying VAT.

    TRUST ME, NOR DAIC, INLAND REVENUE OR CUSTOMS AND EXCISE have the guts to deal with those Chinese businessmen, even though they do not PAY THE NECESSARY VAT OR STICK TO LABOUR LAWS. GOVT. has not shown, neither WILL in the FUTURE HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL to bring the Chinese in line. Remember, the CHINESE have the POWER, MONEY, CLOUT AND INFLUENCE. They are not bound and will not be dictated to by any tiny Third World country dependent on them, begging them for financial bail out and assistance. Dominicans taking BARLEY FOR RICE. The Chinese already in control.

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