The UK government has issued an ominous warning that it will impose visa requirements on passport holders from St Lucia, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda and St Kitts and Nevis, if those countries do not abandon their controversial Citizenship by Investment or CBI programmes.
The European Commission says it will follow suit by removing those countries from the Schengen Visa waiver programme.
Under the CBI, persons can obtain citizenship and a passport from a second country by investing in the economy of that country.
The UK announced last week that all holders of a Dominican passport would no longer be granted visa free access to the United Kingdom, effective in August.
The UK government says it made the decision because persons with criminal antecedents had bought Dominican citizenship, thus allowing them to travel freely to and from Britain.
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Wow, Anthony Stewart was so right.
Wow wow wow on the eve as we Celebrate Emancipation the Infidels see it fit issuing warning to these small Nations that you colonies rape and rip off
Man I tell you. It is about them trying to maintain control.
Thank you for saying what too many are afraid to say including some of our spineless leaders.
… and not a damn word or a pip-squeak from our esteemed and illustrious Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who AGAIN goes into hiding when the BULLDUST hits the fan.
IS HE DANCING ABROAD AS USUAL?
IF I KNEW HOW TO CUSS LIKE @ CURIOUS, I WOULD CUSS GASSSSSTON … 😁
@ Brixtonian.
Of course the reason given by the UK government might very well be valid. The proof is there.
“The UK government says it made the decision because persons with criminal antecedents had bought Dominican citizenship, thus allowing them to travel freely to and from Britain.
You are one who thinks clearly and should know the esteemed leader of this country will not utter a word on this matter unless a team of wild horses drags him kicking and screaming to the air waves to make some sort of defence on his silence. Why so? Maybe he knows what the UK and soon to follow, the EU, are right in their assertions. The word ‘wealthy’ seems to addle the brains of this government; wealthy investor, hip hip hurray, and Antigua and Barbuda are yours at the right price. Well, all this has come back to bite us in our nether bodily parts. Did someone say government was warned about the impending fallout if they continued with CBI/CIP without the necessary checks and balances on these ‘wealthy’ investors? They were right, spot on. All the talk of colonialism and such like do not stand up to scrutiny. This is a plain example of UK and EU protecting their borders which is a priority for them as it should be for us too. You saw the video you asked for. Dominica and St Lucia should make you sit up and think of the corruption this programme has fostered. You think critically and you saw what is going on in the video. Colonialism and wanting control, my foot.
Ambassordships here and there for non nationals are bestowed for monetary favours and no right thinking person should expect mature governments to tolerate such criminal behaviour. Give me a break.
@ BRIXTONIAN…You are such a clown. Continue to work in vain for your Senate seat. UPP will never win another election . Brixtonian always criticizing and never supported the UPP in any Demonstration. He is nothing but an AR””SE
@gord based on the last elections any objective person can tell this is the last term for ablp unless a new leader / team is chosen that would bring new freshness
Gastonites losing their marbles as usual. Hehe 😁
Brixtonian finding his targets 🎯 🎯 like @ GORD time and time again. BULLSEYE!!! 😉
🎶ANR 🎶ANR 🎶ANR …
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg for the small Islands Nations.
We tried Offshore Banking, and they Blacklist us.
We tried Offshore Gaming and then cut us of Corresponding Banking.
WHO RUN THE WORLD?
Best we go back to the Cane Field and the Cotton Field.
@ From THe Sideline
How many eggs have the golden geese laid? Show us the goslings in the form of investments made which have had tangible benefits for the people. I ask because I do not know. What have these investors invested in, I’d like to know for again I do not know. Isn’t it curious that these wealty investors mostly seem to invest in small poor countries like ours in the Caribbean and are then granted citenzship with Antigua and Barbuda passports in the blinking of an eye? I don’t get it.
“We tried Offshore Banking, and they Blacklist us.” What reason was given for the blacklisting and have the public be told why?
“We tried Offshore Gaming and then cut us of Corresponding Banking”. Again I ask what reason was given and was the public kept in the dark as to why?
Watch the video again and pick through the murky dealings of some of our leaders and you might just about get the answers to those questions.
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