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Dominica lost visa waiver prilleges with Canada a decade or so ago over the sale of citizenship.
Somehow, I prefer the evolution of marital bliss and its related gestations as a more reliable prerequisite to citizenship.
The kingdoms and dynasties overtime concluded peace and trade treaties via marriage of their bloodlines.
Even Queen Victoria and The Czar of Russia were thus conncted. Spain England and France ennnnjoyed brief respite because of marriages.
To grant citizenship based on goods and services and not the product of soulful bonds is disquieting in the sense that the human canard or potential screen (much like the canary in the mine warning of toxic conditions) is void.
Clean money sources on Earth are probably as rare as flowing H2O on Mars.
This “me-too” adoption of that form of FDI shows the profound bankruptcy of ideas that is characteristic of the leadership of all the major political parties and those holding political leadership positions in Caribbean region. Our educational institutions continuously fail us. The outputs of these institutions especially regarding the Legal, Arts and Social Science departments produce walking encyclopedias, rather than dependable analysts, and especially, critical thinkers. That is why the piece of paper handed out is regarded as an end in itself. This explains in part why some of our cardboard one-dimensional characters in our parliament boast of their degrees and their ability to accumulate money, irrespective of whether either one comes by fair means or fowl.
In the 21 century, where globalization means much more than just trade, those who are mis- or under-educated and who view that the solution to the lost banana market is another cash crop, betray a strange marriage to a failed past. Here it is.
On the eve of the severance of our dependence on the British purse to fund our local expenditure, that some mistakenly hail and revere as independence, Britain’s intelligence services would have been well aware that Saint Lucia’s involvement with the WTO would have caused it to lose the Banana Preference relationship and market eventually. Blithely, we entertained ourselves and lulled ourselves into complacency that with the icing on the cake, given a promise of the rehabilitation of the road network, all will be well going forward. But Alas! I digress.
FDI is a great deal more than gaining the title of “best place to do business” in the Caribbean. It is much more than “one-stop shop”, the hobby-horse of the Chamber of Commerce. It is much more than “economic citizenship”. Clearly adoption of the models without any regard for the cultural and infrastructural context of implementation and execution betrays a deficit in regards to knowing something about the discipline of management. It is much more than just building hotel infrastructure. This is so, if this were to entail having the coastlines crowded with a ribbon of hotels on beaches running, from north to south. FDI, with not even a passing thought of its involvement with the supply chain and the value chain, betray a deep lack of familiarity with that subject matter contextually, and its lasting impact on the multiplier and domestic economic growth. They don’t teach that at law school and not enough of it in the global accounting houses.
Proper monitoring and accountability is a far cry from reality. Most of the halves have amassed through bobol and this trend is not about to stop. We cannot trust ANY politician. This is nothing more than a sell out of our birth right. The rich will continue to get rich whilst the rights of the poor will be trampled on. All the islands associated with this venture are under the microscope and as a result the benefits and preferential treatment that especially the poor has enjoyed in his venture to seek employment in foreign lands finds itself under the same microscope. The poor will be the loser in all this. Besides the sale of one passport will be multiplied when one takes family into consideration ( the buyer, wife, siblings and their siblings close relatives). Over a short period of time the same two hundred million could be equivalent to hundreds of passports. This is not manufactured, it's been calculated as fact. Land is already sparse in these small islands and the sale of hundreds of acres will increase it's scarcity for future generations.
@ 12:40
Thanks for expanding the deep thinking and its related socio-political impacts.
Richard Peterkin should be the last person to accept any advice from. From the time this man was imported into St. Lucia from whence he came; Grenada or wherever; he has sang at every political table one can imagined.
A blasted joker and waste of time.
The USA and UK can do that because there is proper accountability and governance in the Governments of these countries. NOT SO IN THE CARIBBEAN! That's the difference.
Corruption becomes a norm here.
This government has become desperate and bankrupt of any real policies to deal with the country's challenges; only because these men and women and in particular its leader, kenny anthony are just not equipped and have no formal management training to deal with the mriad of problems to be solved. It is one thing to study law or accounting; but MANAGERIAL EXPERTISE is key.
People need to put all political ties out the window and revolt against any initiative to sell passports for land. The land and the people, especially our kids are our future.
selling passports is problably the worst thing you can do.
Stan said "My main concern, however, is that we need to ensure that checks and balances for the economic citizenship plan are rigid enough and transparent. If not, something that was supposed to benefit us will end up reducing the value and integrity of a Saint Lucian passport"
Stan - you know yourself that it will be a thieves charter with the politicians. St Lucia is a small island, the planning and building laws are non-existant and you already import too much food. It will turn into a concete jungle and only the wealthy internationalists will be able to afford to live. Basic supply and demand dictates that prices have to go up.
Everyone knows both here and abroad; that the political record of many if not all of these politicians; in fact on both sides of the political divide; sale of St. Lucian passports will be St. Lucia's DOOMSDAY.
These fellars have NO CONSCIENCE! They will sell their MOTHERS for MONEY; far less, our St. Lucian passports.
We must tell these ROGUES where to get off; to HELL where they truly belong.
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