In a sharply worded public open letter addressed to Yvor Nassief, local commentator Kenny Green lays out a series of allegations pointing to coordinated, self-serving actions that he claims have undermined the independence and public mandate of the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC). Green opens by calling out what he frames as a deliberate, pre-planned sequence of events: Nassief and his brother Gregor both campaigned simultaneously for an extension of voter confirmation, with Nassief even stepping down from his DAIC role to advance that demand, less than a month before Gregor announced his candidacy as an independent political contender. Green dismisses Nassief’s framing of the sequence as an innocent coincidence rooted in public service, joking that the narrative sounds like the premise for a local bouyon music track.
Green stresses that core decisions of the DAIC should be made by its full membership, not a small closed circle of individuals including Gregor, Nassief and their close associates, noting that he had shared Nassief’s prior correspondence on the matter with the DAIC board for full context. He further calls attention to a major unaddressed conflict of interest: the newly appointed DAIC president runs a private company that Nassief operates in Dominica, pointing out that the new leader issued a public statement aligned perfectly with Nassief’s stated positions almost immediately after taking office, making any claim of unawareness of prearranged plans deeply implausible to the local public.
Green pushes back against the idea that the DAIC has any standard mandate to intervene in private commercial disputes, noting that no equivalent national chamber of commerce in the U.S., UK or Barbados stepped into high-profile domestic disputes during the Enron, BCCI or Clico scandals respectively. He adds that he was never asked to issue a formal representation on the First Domestic matter by any DAIC member at the time, and that the appropriate channel for addressing gaps in regulatory oversight would have been the separate budget proposal he drafted for a full overhaul of the local industry regulator, a document he has now shared publicly to ensure full transparency.
Dismissing Nassief’s references to a Saudi-linked contract as a deliberate distraction tactic, Green argues that Nassief, who has personal family history of facing discrimination and marginalization, has leveraged his influence within the DAIC to prioritize advancing his brother’s new political career, at the expense of former DAIC figure Olive Strachan. Shifting to a recent policy debate over the end of compounded VAT and excise tax on imported goods, Green concedes that the reform may not automatically translate to direct cost savings for end consumers purchasing everyday goods through traditional local retail channels, but notes that it delivers meaningful cash flow benefits for formal large private sector businesses, while cutting import costs for thousands of ordinary Dominican importers, including families, bus operators, truck drivers, farmers and small-scale personal importers. He references his own years-long advocacy for targeted relief on vehicle imports, noting that cars are now an essential livelihood tool for most Dominicans in 2026, and that the reform keeps more disposable income in the pockets of working people, aligned with the core goal of good governance.
Green closes his contribution by issuing a formal recommendation that the entire sitting DAIC board step down to make way for fresh, transparent elections via an official Annual General Meeting, challenging Nassief to lead that process in the name of the “public good” he has repeatedly cited, before signing off with a casual local Jamaican-derived phrase “tek win” to conclude the public exchange.