WHAT IS IT ABOUT CBI AS "INHERENTLY HIGH RISK" THAT NOBODY WANTS TO ADMIT IN SAINT LUCIA?

After the United Kingdom changed its Immigration Rules this year (HC 1691, 5 March, 2026) to require Saint Lucia passport holders to obtain a visa to enter the UK, terminating the existing visa-free entry policy, it squarely placed the blame for this action upon the country's Citizenship by Investment (CIP) economic passport program, identifying it as "INHERENTLY HIGH RISK." That term is an existential threat to CBI all over the Eastern Caribbean.

As the plain meaning of that term is not open to honest debate, the Labour government of Saint Lucia is desperately attempting to spin the news into some sort of ficticious new cooperation, between it and the UK, hinting that its amazing diplomatic skills will, sooner or later, result in a reversal. If one looks at the two years since the UK slammed the visa-free door on the Commonwealth of Dominica, you know that, due to the corrupt CBI program, Saint Lucia will not see relief on visas so long as ERNEST HILAIRE, the most corrupt minister in PHILIP J PEIRRE's Cabinet, and in bed with China's CARIBBEAN GALAXY, remains in command of the CIU.

Minister for Investment Ernest Hilaire

Therefore, Saint Lucians, who gleefully reelected Labour recently, have made their bed, and now they must reap the consequences; no entry into the USA, *(a $15,000 bond if you can even get a visa),tight controls on entry into the UK, and the visa-free roof is about to fall in over in the staunchly anti-CBI European Union.

Add this to the Saint Lucia government's political alignment with the Peoples' Republic of China, autocratic Cuba, and what's left of Venezuela, all of which is strongly disapproved by the present United States administration, and Saint Lucians are facing a dark future, where their Citizenship by Investment piggy bank could be forced to close shop.

I understand that the presence of American warships off Saint Lucia's beaches, as well as a US attack on some of its "fishermen" allegedly smuggling cocaine, is making Saint Lucians nervous, as they should be, as storm clouds look to be on the horizon, and the US still has a number of nasty cards to play in its deck of surprises. Philip J Pierre has chosen Ernest Hilaire and Caribbean Galaxy over Saint Lucia.