WILL GRENADA JOIN ST. KITTS, ST. LUCIA, ANTIGUA & DOMINICA ON THE US STATE DEPARTMENT VISA BLACKLIST?

Rumours are flying, concerning the status of Grenada, the sole Eastern Caribbean state with a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program that was NOT originally named as among those jurisdictions which the United States intends to blacklist for visa purposes, leaning that West Indians from those countries will not be able to secure a visa of any kind to enter America.

Observers of the Caribbean political scene, who have noted the obscene number of Grenada CBI passports handed out to Chinese applicants, the close relationship between the Grenada PM and the leader of the People's Republic of China, and the failure of the country's CIU to publicly sanction CBI fraudster companies, their sub-agents and passport holders, believe that the failure to name Grenada to the Bad Actor list was merely an administrative oversight at the State Department, and action will be taken against it.

What effect such an action will have on Grenada's prized US E-2 visa access program is unknown; will it simply be cancelled? We cannot say, but one thing is certain; senior government officials in Georgetown are suffering from fear and loathing, dreading the potential loss of the only special advantage that their country has over the CBI competition for clients in the Caribbean.

SAINT LUCIA WELCOMES A NIGERIAN MONEY LAUNDERER ON AN OFFICIAL STATE VISIT: WHY DID THEY CLOSE THE AIRPORT FOR HIS ARRIVAL?

BOLA AHMAD TINUBU is the President of Nigeria; but in 1993, before he came into office, he cut a deal with the United States that resulted in the forfeiture of USD$460,000, amid allegations by American law enforcement that he controlled a bank account in Chicago which was used to launder heroin profits. The DEA has repeatedly objected to the release of any additional information about him, raising questions about his level of cooperation in the sordid world of money laundering for narcotics traffickers.

This man, who is now the president of what is one of the most corrupt countries in Africa, recently made what has been described in local Caribbean media as an official state visit to beleaguered Saint Lucia, reportedly organized by Deputy Prime Minister ERNEST HILAIRE, himself alleged to be the ringleader in a multi-billion dollar racketeering scheme of fraud, money laundering and corruption involving the Chinese company, CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP.

Tinubu's visit, which has curiously been totally ignored by global media,has raised serious questions regarding its true purpose, as, aside from the sale of Saint Lucia passports to dodgy Nigerians, the two countries essentially have no relationship, raising the presumption that the Nigerian president may be looking for a "safe" ( i.e. non-extradition) jurisdiction to relocate to after he leaves office.

Alternatively, whether Tinubu is contemplating placing some of his personal fortune out of the reach of Nigerian anti-corruption courts has come up in conversation. Was the fact that Saint Lucia's government ordered Hewanorra International Airport closed for his arrival a cover for the covert transfer of illicit wealth, and will there be other flights? We note that Saint Lucia's organized crime gangs are no stranger to cocaine trafficking.

The visit of such a high-profile, and controversial, African political figure, with a dark money laundering past is obviously not for the purposes of international cooperation; we will be closely following further developments in the new and unexplained role of an African leader in the Caribbean, as we do with any Politically Exposed Person traveling abroad who has disturbing baggage.

THE GASTON BROWNE ANTIGUA CORRUPTION APPLICATION CASE IS NOT OVER YET

If you read through the US District Court's order on the Motion to Quash in the §1782 case, and thought that the groundbreaking case, which has the potential to expose what the application alleges as GASTON BROWNE's decades of money laundering, fraud and corruption, it seems that the show is not quite over. Did you continue to monitor the filings after the Memorandum Opinion and Order? I thought not; Read on.

In an agreed Protective Order, filed in the case on June 20, 2025, where it was disclosed that there was evidence produced in response to the subpoenas issued after Court approval, it was acknowledged that the "Applicant has indicated that she intends to notice an appeal of the Order."( Protective Order at 1).

If you followed the case of MSR Media's §1782 application, while it was initially rejected on procedural, and not substantive, grounds, a renewed application was later granted, and the evidence produced, which was later turned over to the United States Government, reportedly implicates a large number of present and former East Caribbean government officials. Therefore, don't count out the Applicant just yet, regarding her ability to avail herself whatever appellate rights she may have, as well as to refile her Application; The story will continue.

WILL JUSTICE PREVAIL REGARDING CARIBBEAN QUISLINGS WHO SELL OUT THEIR COUNTRY TO CHINA THROUGH CBI?

Vidkun Quisling and Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS in Nazi Germany

                            

Two decades from now, when historians review the effect of Citizenship by Investment (CBI/CIP) programs on the development of the five Eastern Caribbean states, how will they judge the actions of those countries' Prime Ministers, who have chosen to impede economic development in favor of the more convenient CBI revenue, and in the process subordinating their nations to the political will of companies controlled by the Peoples' Republic of China? Will the corrupt EC leadership be ultimately held to account for selling out to China, given that both the United States and the European Union are about to deal what must certainly be a fatal blow on CBI?

The question becomes one of strict accountability; whether their constituents will hold the leadership to account for their corruption, as well as their willingness to accept Chinese domination over internal policies, in exchange for fiscal solvency, as well as personal, albeit illegal, wealth. Allowing a foreign power to quietly dictate both domestic and foreign policy, in exchange for sufficient funding to bootstrap a moribund economy, may be a short-term solution, but it could make these countries vassals of China. All those CBN passports sold to Chinese nationals, who have voting rights, could result in the replacement of the local West Indian population with Chinese. Is that not Treason and Betrayal against the people?

If you remember the story of the Norwegian fascist, VIDKUN QUISLING, who threw in his lot with Hitler, to achieve political power, and given the end of Quisling's story, you wonder whether Eastern Caribbean leaders have considered what their post-CBI situation might be, as well as that of their respective Labour Parties, as Quisling's National Gathering party disappeared when he did.

When will the CBI merry-go-round end in the East Caribbean, and when it does, what will happen to the Prime Ministers, Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers for Investment with CBI Portfolios, when the music stops?

COURT IN SAINT KITTS RULES THAT IT WILL NOT STRIKE THE DEFENSES OF PHILIPPE MARTINEZ AND MSR MEDIA IN DEFAMATION CASE FILED BY FORMER PM TIMOTHY HARRIS IN MASSIVE CBI FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING AND CORRUPTION SCANDAL

                                                         

A Court in Saint Kitts & Nevis has denied a procedural motion, filed by counsel to former SKN Prime Minister TIMOTHY HARRIS to strike the defenses filed by MSR MEDIA and its CEO, PHILIPPE MARTINEZ, in the pending Defamation case filed by Harris. This means that the case will, unless Harris successfully appeals the decision, proceed to trial. The strike-out application, filed by Harris' attorneys, was denied by Master YURI SAUNDERS.

MSR MEDIA and Mr. Martinez have alleged that Harris, when he was Prime Minister, facilitated rampant fraud, money laundering and corruption with Chinese-owned CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP, in the SKN Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport sales program. The case centers around Harris' claims that statements admittedly made by MSR Media and Martinez, which Dr. Harris contends are false and malicious and damaging to his reputation and public image. Mr. Martinez has responded that his statements are true and accurate.

DESPERATE CBI LEADERS PROCLAIM 11TH HOUR REFORMS, BUT A BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, CARIBBEAN STYLE, BECKONS

Prime Ministers, in those four East Caribbean states that now face imminent loss of entry into the United States for their constituents, due to their CBI sins that resulted in breach of National Security, with regard to the US, are desperately seeking to pass reforms. One jurisdiction wants to make it illegal for a CBI passport holder to change his or her name; another want to institute actual residency requirements. What will they do with the tens of thousands of CBI passports they have already issued, we wonder? Is it not much too late to talk of reform for them?

There are Citizenship by Investment programs outside of the Caribbean are are actually employing effective due diligence screening, are not engaging in all the deceptive practices that result in applicants receiving bulletproof aliases, that compliance officers or customs & immigration officials cannot unscramble. Investors should be looking closely at those programs, for the Caribbean CBI programs now have a very short shelf life, after they tweaked both Uncle Sam and the European Union until those powerful forces pushed back. The end is coming for Caribbean CBI; they just don't know it yet. Move on, gentlemen; find clean CBI programs and steer clear of the Eastern Caribbean, if you are educated consumers.

Perhaps it is time for a modern version of the Bonfire of the Vanities, where all those unissued Caribbean CBI passports from all the CBI states are piled high in the Circus in Basseterre, and set ablaze. They are, after all, Occasions of Sin, meaning " external circumstances—whether of things or persons—that either, due to their special nature or because of the frailty common to humanity or particular to some individual, incite or entice one to sin." This Christian theological concept is appropriate under the circumstances, given the sordid history of Caribbean CBI. Pile those passports high, please, so that we can see the fire in Washington, DC.

NERVOUS CORRUPT CARIBBEAN LEADERS, WHOSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BRIBES IS BANKED IN DUBAI, ABU DHABI AND JORDAN, FEAR THE LOSS OF THEIR CRIMINAL PROCEEDS

If you are a Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, or Minister for Investment in one of the five Eastern Caribbean states that sell passports to dodgy buyers, and accept bribes and kickbacks, in cash (US Dollars, of course), to approve the transactions, you are not sleeping very well this week, for the Gulf States will now, after the American attacks, need US protection more than even, with the Iranian threats.

You can expect full cooperation on all fronts, between the United States and the Emirates, as political realities in the region have abruptly changed. As a part of any cooperation between the UAE and the US, expect a wave of enforcement activity, regarding the rogue CBI consultancies who are based in Dubai, and American pressure could result in the freezing of suspicious bank accounts of Caribbean leaders, in amounts far above their legal known assets and salaries.

THE TEN DAYS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

 

In the last ten days, unfolding developments have basically changed the world, regarding both the national security threats facing the United States, and the balance of power in the world. 

First,  The United States imposed a Travel Ban on twelve countries, plus pending bans on thIrty-six  countries, including four Eastern Caribbean states that offer economic citizenships and passports, which constitute a National Security threat, to enter the US. Only if those EC states, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Antigua and Dominica, adhere to strict American standards will their citizens be allowed access to the US.                                                          

Second, The European Union is moving in the fall towards passage of legislation that removes visa-free access to all the EU Member states. The result will be the loss of  visa-free access entry into Europe, by bad actors, using Caribbean CBI passports. 

Third, the United States attacked the nuclear sites in Iran, which have long threatened the Western democracies, as Iran has progressed upon its sanctioned program to possess nuclear weapons, and the ballistic missile capability to deliver them anywhere in the world. The Trump administration, in removing an existential threat, has acted where the past four US Presidents have failed to tread.

It's time for Caribbean leaders to stop following the advice of individuals who have led them to the place where they find themselves in now.

AMERICA'S ATTACK ON IRAN WILL AGAIN FOCUS ITS ATTENTION ON ALL THE IRANIANS WHO ACQUIRED CARIBBEAN CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS, AND ARE USING THEM IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING

In the aftermath of yesterday's American attack upon Iran's illegal nuclear weapon development sites, you can expect an increased focus, on the part of the United States, upon Iran as a National Security threat. This includes Iran's abuse of the global financial structure to evade the international sanctions in place against it for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

One of the techniques that Iran uses successfully is the artful employment of Citizenship by Investment (CBi/CIP) passports to enter and gain access to the financial centers of the United States. It also uses the CBI passports in the developing world, with their low profile status, to disguise its operations, sell sanctioned oil, and support terrorist organizations.

It is therefore reasonable to expect that we will see increased American law enforcement and intelligence service activity to identify and suppress Iran's moves abroad. This will translate into American pressure upon the five Eastern Caribbean states with CBI programs to disclose the identities of the individuals whom they have sold their passports to, especially to Middle Eastern buyer who could be Iranians, or working on their their behalf. Given that "passport secrecy" is a major selling point that they offer dodgy CBI clients, the EC states aren't going to cooperate willingly, but the fear and loathing which their constituents are now exhibiting, at the threat of being blocked from entering the US, could mean that they will be forced to make disclosures of their valuable passport sales identities. Will they buckle under new US pressure, or be excluded from painful trade and visa benefits?

A NEW FILING IN THE GASTON BROWN ANTIGUA CORRUPTION CASE CAN BE EXPECTED, GIVEN THE COURT''S PERMISSIVE AND SPECIFIC ENABLING LANGUAGE IN THE JUNE 4, 2025 ORDER

Gaston Browne, Man on the Edge of the Abyss

The search for incriminating evidence in what the Applicant has labeled the GASTON BROWNE ANTIGUA CORRUPTION DISCOVERY APPLICATION (Case No.: 1:2025mc00098 (SDNY) is far from over, and most legal observers fully expect to see a refiling of the §1782 Discovery proceeding, which has alleged that the longtime Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, GASTON BROWNE, has led a life of corruption and money laundering, culminating in the theft of ten million US Dollars from government funds, after the illegal sale of a luxury yacht seized in Antiguan waters, by the country's corrupt court system.

In the Memorandum Order handed down in the case, although the Court, in holding that Discovery of American assets could not occur since there was no pending legal proceeding which would benefit from information potentially gleaned by subpoenas for records, the District Judge specifically left the door open for a subsequent filing, after new litigation has been initiated. "The Court’s decision is without prejudice to a new application for relief under Section 1782 in the event that circumstances change materially (for example, in the Antiguan proceedings) and Applicant is able to satisfy the second statutory requirement." (MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER at 10).

What happened in the case is that Discovery was complete in the Antigua proceeding, and only a final decision by the Court was lacking, and the proposed new proceeding in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had not as yet been filed in that country's courts. PM Browne, who has been kept busy of late, deceiving his constituents about the upcoming American visa entry prohibition on Antiguans, will soon have a much more serious issue to contend with, the refiled §1782 application, which is believed to reveal the evidence of his massive and repeated corruption, as well as money laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars through financial institutions and payment processors, through his business associates and immediate family members. Justice may have been delayed, but it will not be denied.

UNFAIR COMPETITION, BY CHINESE CBI OPERATORS, AGAINST AMERICAN INVESTORS, POSE A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK TO THE UNITED STATES

With the United States Department of State including four Eastern Caribbean CBI states on a possible visa ban, regarding the ability of their nationals to enter the United States, highlighting their concerns over the CBI programs and proper due diligence, there has been a significant new development that we wish to report at this time. 

Reliable sources in Washington are advising that ongoing discussions are taking place among several Members of the United States Congress, regarding what is being called the Unfair Competition situation that Chinese companies have created in the Citizenship by Investment industry against American investors, as well as in other sectors abroad, such as energy. With the latest reset at the Department of Justice of  foreign corruption laws, the sources have confirmed to me that discussions are currently being held in DC for a possible Congressional hearing regarding the Chinese involvement in Caribbean CBI  programs and other fields including energy and infrastructure projects in South America which pose a National Security risk for the United States. The role and knowledge of the bank regulator, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in this CBI scheme, as well as that of international marketers of CBI programs, including but not limited to CS Global, in the context of Chinese penetration of the CBI programs, have been mentioned in connection with the subjects of the Congressional inquiry.

I fully support this initiative regarding Congressional Hearings as this will be the only way to have a swift resolution of the failure to have the full transparency, which has been requested for years, from the Caribbean CBI programs, and the responsible CBI ministers, with respect to the widespread allegations of fraud, money laundering,  corruption and compromised due diligence, posing a threat to the United States.

HOW MANY OF THE "CHINESE" WHO ACQUIRED CBI PASSPORTS FROM HENG SHENG IN GRENADA, AND FROM CARIBBEAN GALAXY IN SAINT KITTS & NEVIS AND IN SAINT LUCIA, ARE NORTH KOREANS POSING AS CHINESE?

If you are a compliance officer at an international bank, accepting a North Korean national at Account Opening is as close to a fatal error, regarding professional malpractice, as you ever want to be. The People's Democratic Republic of Korea is a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and allowing a North Korean into your bank would be career suicide. North Korean agents are involved in just about every type of financial crime, narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting, and Internet fraud, to support their autocratic regime, which exports terrorism; your job is to keep them out as gatekeeper.

So why am I bringing up such such a forbidden topic? I have always been sensitive to the possibility of North Korean penetration of the West ever since I became aware that officers of the North Korean Peoples' Army were advising Hugo Chavez' regime in Venezuela's military, but wearing Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army uniforms, to conceal their involvement. I am also personally familiar with the latest iterations of the so-called "Supernote," the counterfeit USD$100 bill, manufactured in North Korea with impunity.

We know for a fact that, in the past, North Korean government agents have acquired CBI passports, through passport consultancies in Hong Kong. The question becomes just how many PDRK agents bought Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia and Grenada passports through the dominant sales agents HS and Caribbean Galaxy? This question becomes relevant to bank compliance officers in the Western democracies, as we now see a new and direct American focus upon terrorism and terrorist financing as National Security threats.

Is your new affluent Chinese bank client, providing a CBI passport from one of the Eastern Caribbean states, actually a North Korean? What about his accent? Do you have native Chinese speakers on your staff who can tell you if there are red flags with his use of vocabulary syntax and grammar, a regional accent that is inconsistent to what your staff know to be normal, or issues with his generic supporting documents? Govern yourselves accordingly, to reduce the risk of inadvertently onboarding a North Korean agent, laundering the proceeds of crime back to his superiors in Pyongyang.

U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL POSITION: SAINT KITTS POSES THE SAME TERRORIST THREAT AS YEMEN

For many years, I have warned investors that acquiring a Saint Kitts & Nevis Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passport was the equivalent of painting a bull's-eye on their backs, because the use of SKN passports greatly increased their risk of being labeled a high risk by American law enforcement agencies and regulators, as well as the global financial community. This nightmare for the buyers of these second passports has now, unfortunately, come to pass, as the US State Department has categorized Saint Kitts, along with Yemen and other jurisdictions abroad, as a threat to National Security on the grounds of terrorism. Under American law, there is nothing worse than the claim of terrorism to target any individual, given the potential life sentence that a criminal conviction under anti-terrorism laws carries with it, and now this threat has been directly leveled at Saint Kitts & Nevis.

The United States, by connecting Saint Kitts to terrorism, reminds us of the illicit narcotics trafficking relationship, between Iran/Venezuela and South American drug cartels, Hezbollah and its transnational money launderers and terrorist financiers, that Kittitian and other Caribbean leaders knew very well was when they sold CBI passports to/ Saint Kitts CIU intentionally approved criminal applicants, all of whom they knew were not only unsuitable for passport ownership, but who represented a Clear and Present Danger to the national security of the United States.

To add to the urgency of the situation, the sixty day period set by the Department of State for Saint Kitts to reform its passport sales process was this week arbitrarily shortened by President Trump; it expired yesterday, with no reply from the Kittitian government of Prime Minister Terrance Drew, and immediate adverse consequences are imminently expected. Trump himself this week personally shortened the deadline from 60 days to three.

Holders of Saint Kitts & Nevis CBI passports are urged to cease and desist from using them for any purpose, including international travel and bank account opening procedures, as such actions may have serious legal consequences, including being detained by immigration or customs authorities, deportation or even arrest at international airports of arrival, and the refusal of international banks to open accounts for them. Whether there will be unofficial commercial blacklisting of SKN passport holders we cannot say, but you are urged to consult competent legal counsel before contemplating further use of these passports, and should consider destroying them. You Were Warned, ladies and gentlemen.

WILL THE USE OF CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PASSPORTS FOR TERRORIST FINANCING BY IRANIANS NOW BE EXPOSED?

War often reminds us that the Law of Unintended Consequences is alive and well. One of the relatively unknown loopholes of the global sanctions imposed upon Iran by the Western democracies is the nasty little detail that several Eastern Caribbean CBI programs formerly allowed Iranian nationals to acquire economic passports that they offered, notwithstanding the sanctions, so long as they represented that they resided outside of the Islamic Republic. You can obviously see that this exception is broad enough for enterprising Iranian terrorist financiers to literally drive a truck through, and secure that valuable proof of identity from a very low-risk jurisdiction.

Long-time readers of my articles will recalls that the Iranian owner of the notorious money laundering PILATUS BANK of Malta, as well as the bank's CEO, held SKN and Dominica passports, and those passports were used to open accounts in Swiss banks. We can only guess how many of the Iranians holding CBI passports from Saint Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Grenada employed them for terrorist financing operations. The question now becomes, should this evidence now surface as one of the results of the current war between Israel and Iran, will Caribbean CBI and CIP agency officials find themselves personally liable for Providing Financial Support to a Designated Terrorist organization, under the United States Code, and will they be charged?