FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2023
VOLUME 117, No.30
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CBI: GONSALVES HAS THE LAST LAUGH Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves may not be laughing at the fallout his Caribbean colleague Heads might experience, but you can’t fault him for saying with a chuckle, “I told you so.”
Right: While the developed countries look with a vengeful eye on the Caribbean, many of them offer CBI programmes of their own.
THE SAYING THAT ‘HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST’ may just be ringing true for Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This, as it relates to Dr. Gonsalves’ take on the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme. The Prime Minister’s unrelenting resistance to appeals to introduce a CBI for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as a source of recurrent
revenue and foreign exchange, was in contrast to other colleague Caribbean countries, including Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis. Now, with the news that the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) are cracking down on countries that sell their passports, i.e., Continued on Page 3.