With 72 hours to go, it is still possible in the national interest for the President and the Opposition Leader to agree to convene a sitting of the National Assembly in order to avoid the looming constitutional crisis and a blow to democracy now staring at us.
Last week, Bloomberg News reported that the European Union (EU) has increased the list of blacklisted countries from five to 15 as part of its efforts to fight `opaque practices that facilitate tax avoidance by multinationals and individuals’. According to the EU, these countries either failed to deliver on their commitments to comply with required good governance criteria or did not commit to do so at all. Seven of these countries are from the Caribbean: Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, and U.S. Virgin Islands. Earlier, the EU was unable to reach an agreement on the list of countries deemed to be money-laundering hotspots.
In this article, we continue our coverage of events that took place within the last week or so in relation to the vote of no confidence in the Government and preparations for elections.
