
April 20, 2009 -- Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer is returning from Trinidad buoyed and hopeful that the country’s financial services sector will be looked upon more favourably by the United States. PM Spencer reported that Antigua and Barbuda and the other members of Caricom made a strong case against the hard line stance taken by America against their offshore sector, frowned upon as providing tax havens for US citizens trying to avoid paying their due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).