ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA FACE ADDITIONAL AMERICAN SANCTIONS IF THEY FAIL TO TAKE THEIR CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAMS ABROAD AND REFORM THEM

Antigua and Barbuda, and the Commonwealth of Dominica, are in the doghouse, in the eyes of the United States Government, and their CBI and CIP passport sales programs are entirely to blame. Don't GASTON BROWNE or ROOSEVELT SKERRIT try to fool you; the obscene number of sales of passports to high-risk individuals, white collar criminals, and people from countries labeled State Sponsors of Terrorism is the principal reason.

There is a good chance that, if true reform of CBIA does not occur, that American sanctions with actually increase in the short term. One only need look at the American foreign policy program being administered by its Cuban-American Secretary of State MARCO RUBIO to know that further American action against the two Caribbean states, for conduct America deems uncooperative and even hostile, if reform does not ensue, is expected. The only solution, in our humble opinion, is to move the entire administration and operation of the two countries' CBI programs abroad, to a jurisdiction (US or UK) where the corruption can be subject to such oversight that it will disappear. The due diligence and the approval processes, conducted by reputable third parties, will eliminate bribes, kickbacks and dirty dealing that characterize CBI in the Eastern Caribbean today. Will we see real change, or will we see America next interfere with the future arrival of its affluent tourists in the Caribbean, and block scheduled travel of its airliners, or the termination of all correspondent banking with indigenous financial institutions? Antigua & Dominica, reform or look forward to hard times.