NOW SEEING LOSS AND REVOCATION OF VISAS FOR SAINT LUCIANS TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES, GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON BLAMES THOSE OF ITS CITIZENS WHO OVERSTAY THEIR U.S. VISA, RATHER THAN THE CIP SCANDAL

Maundy Lewis

Down in the Eastern Caribbean state of SAINT LUCIA, which is one of the five EC countries that sell CBI & CIP passports, locals there are discovering that their ability to secure, or maintain, a visa to enter the United States is now under direct threat. We have already covered the fact that university students from the Caribbean CBI states are having their U.S. visas to attend college there revoked or cancelled, but this is an additional problem West Indians from Saint Lucia are now encountering, to their disappointment and chagrin.

MAUNDY LEWIS, the Attache' and Spokesperson for SLC Prime Minister PHILIP J. PIERRE, has publicly blamed those Saint Lucians who have overstayed on their US visitor's visas, and remained in America, but in truth and in fact the reason US visas are disappearing for Saint Lucians is the utter corruption, money laundering and fraud that has infected the country's CIP program, which is run by Minister of investment ERNEST HILAIRE. Pierre's futile efforts to blame his country's diaspora is just one more attempt to spin the truth, and to distract from the unfolding CIP scandal.

Perhaps in the near future, when no Saint Lucian is able to enter the United States, for any purpose, the voters who elected the Labour Party into office will realize that a change of administration is not only necessary, it is vital to keep Saint Lucia, and its citizens, from being shunned and excluded abroad, due solely to the CIP scandal, and take action accordingly.