Speakers

Peter Felicien

Managing Director, Freshstart Construction Company Limited
St. Lucia

Peter is the Managing Director of Fresh Start Construction Company Limited, the construction arm of the Hippolyte Group of Companies, which also includes Hippolyte Equipment Services and Baseline Construction

Ciaran Conlon

Chief Executive Officer, NH International (Caribbean) Ltd
Trinidad & Tobago

Ciaran Conlon is the Chief Executive Officer at NH International (Caribbean) Limited. With nearly thirty years of experience in the construction industry

Aneta Chmielewska

The University of Warmia and Mazury
Poland

Aneta is a PhD in the Institute of Spatial Management and Geography on Faculty of Geoengineering University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

Martyn Bould

Chairman, Bould Consulting Limited
Cayman Islands

Martyn has over fifty years of experience in all aspects of development and construction advice as well as appraisals, claims consulting, quantity surveying, cost and risk control and management.

Celsus Baptiste

Land Administration Consultant
St. Lucia

Celsus Baptiste, Chartered Valuation Surveyor and Land Administration Consultant (MRICS RV), has dedicated over two decades to advancing Land Administration and Valuation Surveying across the Eastern Caribbean.

Suzanna Aurelien

Geographic Information Officer, Ministry of Physical Planning
St. Lucia

Suzanna is the Geographic Information Officer at the Department of Physical Development and Urban Renewal, in Saint Lucia.

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Paul Sanderson

The Tax Foundation has recently published an article titled “There's No Good Way to Pay for Property Tax Repeal” which is another contribution to the current debate in the USA over whether property taxes can be abolished. Written by Jared Walczak, Vice President of State Projects, the key findings are stated by the author to be:

  • Property taxes currently generate 70 percent of all local tax revenue, some or all of which would have to be replaced with other taxes under property tax repeal.
  • Replacing the property tax with newly granted local taxing authority is exceedingly difficult, because local sales and income tax bases vary widely across jurisdictions; there may, for instance, be no feasible sales tax rate by which an agricultural county or bedroom community could replace its property tax revenue.
  • Backfilling forgone local property tax revenue through new state taxes is difficult because it dramatically shifts overall tax burdens, undermines local accountability, and cannot easily adjust for changing population mixes.
  • All revenue alternatives are less conducive to economic growth than the existing property tax regime, but some transfer regimes are sharply degrowth.