HILAIRE, YOU WERE WARNED ! THE UNITED KINGDOM CANCELS VISA-FREE ENTRY FOR CITIZENS OF SAINT LUCIA, DUE TO NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS CAUSED BY ITS CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT (CIP) PASSPORT PROGRAM

UK HOME SECRETARY MAHMOOD

The people of SAINT LUCIA woke up this week, to reap the whirlwind created when their Minister of Investment, ERNEST HILAIRE, disregarded advice and proceeded to bring Chinese-owned and controlled CARIBBEAN GALAXY GROUP on as the principal vendor of Citizenship by Investment (CIP) passports, resulting in then issuance of tens of thousands of passports to Chinese career criminals, intelligence agents involved in Industrial espionage, fraud and money laundering, as the UK has now terminated Saint Lucia's visa-free admission privileges. Visitors visas are now required, and Minister Hilaire is completely to blame for this sad state of affairs. Home Secretary SHABANA MAHMOOD delivered the announcement at a press conference

While the official grounds for the end of visa-free admission for Saint Lucians is said to be that their citizens, once in the UK, seek asylum in large numbers, in truth and in fact, the national security threats to the UK, caused by the corrupt CIP program, which is operating without any effective due diligence, has caused serious concerns in London. Those concerns are well taken.

Although the Saint Lucia Government, in a press statement responding to this news, attempted to minimise the problem, stating that it would be working with the UK "to better understand the decision and to explore pathways for maintaining strong mobility arrangements between both countries," this decision, like a similar one put in place two years ago, with respect to the dangers posed by Dominica's corrupt CBI program, is not being modified or withdrawn anytime soon.

Saint Lucians have only Hilaire to thank for this new UK action, which will usher in expensive and time-consuming arrangements to make application for visas, which were recently completely blocked to the US by the Department of State. International travel has just now become much more difficult and complicated for Saint Lucians, due to their inability to rein in their rogue passport sales program.After the United States action, placing Saint Lucia on the list of 75 countries paused for immigration, this is another serious blow for Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, and Hilaire, and St. Lucians have Les Khan and Caribbean Galaxy to thank, along with Hilaire and PJP.