Dukharan to talk tax justice at Owen Arthur Lecture

Noted regional economist Marla Dukharan will deliver the 4th Distinguished Owen S. Arthur Memorial Lecture on Friday at the Walcott Warner Theatre of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus.

The hybrid event, which will also be streamed live on UWI TV, will see Dukharan, a Barbados-based Trinidadian economist, deliver on the topic Tax Justice for the Caribbean.

Dukharan has been a strident voice for equal and fair treatment of developing countries by industrialised nations which often establish agendas and compliance structures without input and consideration of the impact on the economies of small and developing states.

She has been a critic of the European Union’s blacklisting processes of countries, describing them as unfair, an overreach of authority, and biased.

Dukharan joins an elite list of Owen Arthur Memorial lecturers, which included Dr Hyginus Gene Leon, former president of the Caribbean Development Bank; Dr Kevin Greenidge, governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, and Dr Carla Barnett, CARICOM secretary general.

Authur, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Barbados, died on July 27, 2020, at the age of 70. At the time of his death, he was a Professor of Economics at the UWI and a renowned advocate for Caribbean unity. His leadership of Barbados was also distinguished by his strong support for the full implementation of the Caribbean Community Single Market and Economy (CSME).

(IMC1)