FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025
VOLUME 119, No. 46
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by KENVILLE HORNE ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has refuted the recent disclosure that he and his family did any wrong or illegal, when they purchased properties (homes) in Trinidad from that country’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC).
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves wasted no time in rubbishing the insinuations that his family had done anything immoral or improper.
A glimpse of what is on offer for sale/rent by the Housing Development Corporation at Victoria Keys, Diego Martin, Trinidad.
Indications of these purchases was made public by Anil Roberts, a government Senator and Junior Minister in the Ministry of Housing, in a Tuesday, November 11 episode of his social media blog post he calls ‘Doubles and Coffee’. Roberts ‘reported’ that the Dr. Gonsalves’ wife, son Storm and daughter Soleil had acquired at market rates, unlike other HDC properties, three high end units located at three Victoria Keyes, Diego Martin, Trinidad, total purchase exceeding TT$4 million. His contention was that the Gonsalves family benefited from
Senator Anil Roberts was his usual hard-hitting self in delivering an exposé of the favoured transactions by members of the family of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves. political favours under the former People’s National Movement (PNM), supporting this with documented evidence of when and to whom the sales were made. Addressing Dr. Gonsalves directly, Roberts asked, “Honourable Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, did you disclose to the people of Trinidad and Tobago and to the people of St. Vincent and Caricom that when you are speaking, your family has received great benefit from the PNM?” Continued on Page 3.