Using the funeral of a senior regional religious figure as a cover, the heads of the five East Caribbean states that operate CBI/CIP citizenship & passport sales programs, met privately in Dominica. The agenda was, as reported by an eyewitness, was the conduct of the government of St. Lucia which has been very publicly exposed by the recent filing of the RICO complaint by MSR Media. The attendees, who were highly critical of the way that St. Lucia is handling its CIP, which several at the meeting openly feared could result in the abrupt end of all five programs in the region, were very vocal. The CIP programs supply a large percentage of the funds needed for the annual budgetary requirements of the EC states. The discussion reportedly grew quite heated during the meeting, for that reason, and all the anger was directed straight at the St. Lucia leadership present.
It was brought up during the meeting that St. Lucia had not as yet joined the other CBI states in signing the Memorandum of Agreement to standardize pricing, allegedly because it had entered into a contract with Caribbean Galaxy, and that the country had not filed its mandated financial disclosures for two years, in violation of CIP laws and regulations. Remember, there are allegations that approximately one billion ($1bn) dollars has been diverted abroad, and it was brought up that serious questions are being asked in the governments of Europe and North America about red flags of corruption.
Clearly there are major concerns among the leadership of the five EC CBI states, and they are said to have left the meeting without receiving satisfactory answers from the leaders of St. Lucia. Has someone possibly killed the Golden Goose?
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