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.