THE REAL REASON WHY CARIBBEAN LEADERS ARE SILENT, DESPITE UNIVERSAL AMERICAN RESTRICTIONS ON VISAS AND GREEN CARDS, AND TUMULT ON THE HIGH SEAS

Readers who have been asking why St. Kittts Foreign Minister DENZIL DOUGLAS, St. Lucia Investment Minister ERNEST HILAIRE, Antigua Prime Minister GASTON BROWNE, Dominica PM ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, and all the other senior leaders of the Five Eastern Caribbean states with CBI programs, are curiously silent, notwithstanding the imposition of severe restrictions upon the ability of their citizens to enter or reside in the United States; the answer is simple. All of these leaders have extremely large bank accounts, real estate holdings, and other significant properties in amounts that far exceed their legitimate income and assets, and which were obtained through bribes, kickbacks and other forms of financial crime, and the U.S. Department of Justice knows precisely where they are located; all of this information was revealed during Discovery proceedings in Federal Court, and shared with the DOJ by the plaintiffs in civil litigation.

That is why, aside from small public statements by Caribbean leaders condemning President Trump for America's visa restrictions, and the naval counter drug campaign (which this week took the lives of Saint Lucia citizens allegedly engaged in drug trafficking), the leadership has pointedly refrained from angering a resurgent America, whose new foreign policy directly affects each and every West Indian who wishes to visit the United States, or reside there. Add the arrest of Venezuelan dictator NICOLAS MADURO from office, and Caribbean leaders wonder which amongst them might be next, as their close personal relationship with the Venezuelan dictator could have unintended consequences for them, resulting in one or more of them standing the dock in an American courtroom, charged with money laundering, fraud and violations of our anti-corruption laws .

US warship in St. Lucia waters

So, we trust that our readers now understand why the Caribbean leadership now stands mute; they fear the loss of their ill-gotten gains, and their freedom, at the hands of the American goliath.