The current Saint Lucia Minister for Housing, Local Government and Urban Renewal, DR. CADELIA AMBROSE, has been swiftly transferred from Housing, where she held the title of Permanent Secretary to cashiered ex-Minister RICHARD FREDERICK. Frederick, who was placed on Indefinite Administrative Leave by Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, after videos of him seemingly engaged in sexual activity with an individual whom he allegedly repeatedly wrote large cheques to, from a government account, and who is also linked to bulk cash smuggling abroad, as well as local organized crime connections.
Ambrose, who it is also alleged worked directly under then-Housing Minister Frederick, in siphoning off government funds, could be charged in lieu of Frederick, whose alleged involvement in the cash purchase of votes for the Saint Lucia Labour Party at election time, as Frederick has boasted of his first-hand knowledge of systemic official corruption in Saint Lucia government, which would confer on him immunity from criminal prosecution.
Whether Ambrose gets the blame is a question on the minds of many Saint Lucians who are pain fully aware that Richard Frederick has ambitions upon being named the next Prime Minister, notwithstanding his chequered background, and multiple pending allegations of his theft of treasury funds, which include contributions from Northg American ans eauropean donor nations.
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