12th April 2024

Press Statement by Leader of the Opposition on CIP

Source Leader of the Opposition Facebook Page 

The Prime Minister’s Office yesterday issued a press release that the Prime Minister has gone to Brussels to meet with the European Union to discuss the Citizenship By Investment Programme.

The Opposition has been reliably informed that in fact Mr. Pierre was summoned due to serious concerns about the operation of this Programme. We, as a party have been sounding the alarm for almost two years since Government and the Prime Minister in particular, changed the rules governing the Economic Fund to allow Cabinet to use the CIP monies freely and due to their damning decision to continue accepting Russian and Iranian applications at the commencement of the Ukraine war in spite of international concerns.

In addition, the Government’s refusal to commit to the OECS joint protocols and the recent addition of an infrastructural option have collectively undermined confidence in our program. This raises serious security and transparency concerns and threatens to impact our current visa-free access to the United Kingdom and Europe which will necessarily include Martinique and Guadeloupe.

There is also a very real risk that the US and Canada could reverse their recently granted concessions to allow us to apply and renew our visas online.

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