SAINT LUCIA PUSHES BACK AT THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE BY ANNOUNCING A NEW OCEANFRONT MARRIOTT CBI HOTEL PROJECT BY THE ROGUE CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP

The same day that the United States, of behalf of itself, the United Kingdom and the Members of the European Union, warned Saint Vincent against adopting a new Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program, and recognizing China over Taiwan, Saint Lucia Minister of Investment ERNEST HILAIRE confirmed the new MARRIOTT hotel project on Vigie Beach, which is a CARIBBEAN GALAXY REAL ESTATE GROUP project.

Minister Ernest Hilaire

Galaxy, which is Chinese-owned and controlled, was literally thrown out of Saint Kitts & Nevis for selling tens of thousands of CBI passports at illegal discounts as much as 60%, to Chinese nationals, with zero due diligence performed on applicants, a number of whom have been subsequently arrested and indicted in the U.S. and elsewhere, for crimes and illegal intelligence activity.

Granting Galaxy the right to sell this Marriott project, which will involve the sale of economic citizenships with CBI St. Lucia passports, is a slap in the face at the U.S. and Europe, whom have bluntly stated that they consider CBI to constitute a serious national security threat. Recent efforts by Saint Lucians to obtain visas to enter the United States, have been denied by the American Embassy in Barbados, and additional U.S. restrictions and even sanctions, based upon Saint Lucia's stubborn insistence upon continuing its corrupt and dangerous CBI program, are certain to be accelerated by news that this Galaxy-administered project has not been terminated.

The Trump administration has made no secret of its opposition to the continued operation of the SLC CBI program, and Galaxy's role in money laundering, fraud and corruption in the five EC states that sell economic citizenship, and this news about the Vigie Beach hotel project will further isolate Saint Lucia on the international scene. Given the American position on CBI, Saint Lucia's leaders are clearly choosing to play with diplomatic and economic fire, a game which they cannot win, and which could seriously result in damage on a number of political and financial front.