Submitted by Anthony Davis Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite says he sees no reason why Barbados could not have a citizenship by investment programme. “However, speaking in Parliament today during debate on the Companies (Amendment ) Bill, 2016, the St. Philip South MP warned that policy makers should not seek to lure wealthy people to our…
Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite says he sees no reason why Barbados could not have a citizenship by investment programme. “However, speaking in Parliament today during debate on the Companies (Amendment ) Bill, 2016, the St. Philip South MP warned that policy makers should not seek to lure wealthy people to our shores only to have them frustrated by bureaucrats.
Pray tell me, Mr. Attorney General, do you want to beef up the National Security or do you want it to have more holes than a Swiss cheese?
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t sell our citizenship to every Tom, Dick and Harry for 30 pieces of silver and expect that we will have the type of security needed against the ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, etc.
You want funds to be diverted from the ministries of health, and education. I would suggest that you read the report on page 11 of the above issue of Barbados TODAY under the headline “Seeking a health care cost fix”, and especially the caption affixed to the photo of NIS director Ian Carrington which reads: “NIS director Ian Carrington explaining the dwindling health care budget,” and tell me and the rest of Barbados how you expect funds to be diverted from the Ministry of Health when that ministry has to make do with the paltry amount of funds it is receiving!
The same pertains to the Ministry of Education.
As a member of Cabinet you should know that that is not feasible for either ministry.
All I can see down the road is heartaches for those persons holding Barbadian passports when countries like the USA, Canada, and EU countries deem those holding them as personae non gratae.
How will you distinguish those who really have the interest of the country at heart from those who just want to get their hands on the passport so that they can move freely around the world without let or hindrance?
You already have a problem with vetting those who want to set up business here, because Dean Del Mastro who was out on bail from a Canadian jail came here and set up a solar plant business, and he is certainly not the type of person with whom any Government should be doing business.
This is not the right thing for Barbados, and I agree with Minister Inniss who stated “not in Barbados” about this issue.
65 responses to “Citizen by Investment: Not Bout Hey!”
Well Well & Consequences
Gabriel…these Caribbean prime ministers got some nerve, it’s their own corrupt activities coupled with the money laundering activities of their esteemed friends and business partners who pay them bribes for contracts and favors, read DBLP politicians, are who caused the international banks to institute derisking protocols, they must now take all the responsibility for their own corruption, it’s not like the blame can just be passed to someone else, it’s just that no one can be found to blame so they are reduced to writing letters to the UN.
They have business people on the island who are blatantly and openly boasting of their money laundering and other activities, but they are not worried because of the bribed authorities coupled with political connections means that those who are being bribed or are business partners cannot stop them from laundering money and other activities…..but international institutions can stop doing business with the leaders and the islands…no one can stop them either, so hence you will get the sissy letters to the UN pleading foul, while still refusing to clean up the corruption on the islands.
Something hss to give.
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Vincent Haynes
David
Did you hear our PM on the intention to disband the WICB due to lack of good governance……..now that statement was interesting from the point of view that he knows what good governance is….hmmmmm.
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Colonel Buggy
Vincent Haynes February 20, 2016 at 4:30 PM #
And the Minister of the Environment, a St Andrew man to boot, is at a loss as to what is causing the monkeys to move from their natural habitat ,ie the gullies, into the villages. Perhaps he is considering bringing in an American or a Chinese,who have never seen a monkey outside of a zoo, to carry out a 5 Million dollar survey to determine why.
What ever happened to the views of the man in the street?
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de Ingrunt Word
@Vincent, this issue of the monkeys and their natural habitat has bothered me for years. To your point of the pending million $$ study maybe the local folks are awaiting an outside eureka to awaken from their slumber.
It has been noted on these pages before so surely I am not the only person who can chronicle the fact that the proliferation of monkeys in and among the residential areas is not normal as compared to 30, 20 years ago.
My concern is re the impact of a serious incident between monkey and human. Are the authorities waiting on some – God forbid – major incident before they are more diligent about capturing more of these animals and moving them away from human interaction.
One can only hope that we continue to keep the windows closed and there is never a case of an infant or toddler being attached by a marauding monkey as they traipse through the neighborhood in their numbers.
When I was growing up I never saw the incidences of monkeys loitering or scurrying through our neighborhood as I did when I visited my parents in later years.
So I presume we are awaiting that claim of a study and an expensive expert….at least den the monkeys would be providing some financial relief without the pain from an attack being the genesis of those funds. Some peeps would be smiling!!
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de Ingrunt Word
Here “residential areas” refer to non countryside districts. The monkeys were always there fah sure but more are brazenly taking up residence in these ‘town’ areas it seems to me.
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Exclaimer
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?” (Luke 9:25, New International Version)
Thirty years from now Barbadians will look back and ask of themselves some searching questions:
“At what point did their country veer off course? “
Why did their ancestors remain mute and impotent in the face of an intifada that was launched on them by their own government?
“Why did Owen Arthur allow foreigners to purchase land and property in Barbados?”
“Who was the criminal who believed it would have made good sense to allow wealthy individuals to take up citizenship in Barbados?”
We are now in 2016. It has been argued that for a country to reach its potential and to be strong it requires their citizens to be literate. In Barbados we have a near 100% literary rate yet we have regressed as a country and a people compared to yesteryear when the illiteracy rates were much higher.
Do you not find it interesting that with all those magnificent houses that we have on this island, with their enormous and well-cared for gardens and their obligatory swimming pools that we now have a water crisis on the island?
If Barbados continues to be viewed by the outside world where all and sundry can share a piece of it. Then were does this leave the indigenous Bajan? In the many gullies sharing a habitat with the monkeys or on some mocked- up boat paddling their way to greener pastures?
Perhaps the most fundamental question(s) that Bajans may ask of each other in thirty years may be this:
Why did they remain brass-bowls, lovers of tom-foolery, shallow self-loathing fools, middle-class centric imbeciles, wuk-up clowns and the dregs of Caribbean society for such a long period?
Viewed from a far I see little for you people to celebrate. Bush Tea is right you are in danger of becoming extinct just like the dodo bird. My parents certainly made the right decision to leave the island when they were young back in the sixties.
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Vincent Haynes
Colonel Buggy February 20, 2016 at 8:33 PM #
Chuckle……I wonder what is the significance of mentioning 5m in the same breath as the MoE.
de Ingrunt Word February 21, 2016 at 3:02 AM #
The reason for the increase in monkey activity in residential areas is not rocket science,the main factors are lack of food i.e. wooded areas and reduction of cane and concomittant produce,using monkey meat as a food source,the unattractiveness of $5.00 per tail as a source of income and the stoppage of the exportation of the green monkey for research.
Whilst the above is taking place,they are breeding more.
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Well Well & Consequences
De Word…in their infinite lack of wisdom and filled with greed, the scam artists on the island….read 4 Seasons and 16 now destroyed acres of land that the former Paradise Hotl site, continue to cut down the habitats of the monkeys, they have nowhere to go and have to eat, the monkeys, greed chased them from where they were domiciled.
Those 2 legged beasts in human form aided by politicians with their greed and lust for paper money are the real rotten culprits.
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Hants February 17, 2016 at 10:57 PM #
Why would an “Investor” want citizenship? Rich citizens pay high taxes.@
So far they rich dont pay taxes in Barbados they upfront payoff the MOF to have tax free living and no NIS, So they making by not paying and giving the VAT and Some taxes to the government, They may get the VAT but seen not to pay taxes in their gains.
So with that type of thinking ALL the rich people can buy citizenship-s for many people and then out vote the Natives?
Columbus by Money,,,Rich people make more money, Rich people also by pass the Constitution, and any other laws they dont like.by paying off the DPP and AG,
Rich can buy votes and control these white negroes with black skin and slave out the Native/ Nationals,
This is why Barbados in this Mess the Slave Trade never ended ,,1066, 1966,166sqmls,166 pages of Fraud Act, 166 days of the year, 50 years of Fraud, Laundering,PONZI, Racketeering 2016
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Dennis Johnson
…… And so will enter the same-sex unions that usually cause temperatures to rise. For who will deny someone – say Sir Elton – recognitiion of his wife/husband after he invests US$3 billion to “rescue 4 Seasons” and gains Economic Citizenship? Just wondering out loud!
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Colonel Buggy
@ DJ , After a lean night on Bush Hill, an operator is most unlikely to turn away an undesirable looking potential customer who ,obviously has a few dollar bills in his pocket. Like an old one once said, “…..he does turn my mind, but I need the lil dollar, ya know.”
The US Government is not passing judgment on the merit of Citizenship by Investment Programmes, but it wants Caribbean countries to be careful in deciding who should get a passport.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday April 14, 2016 – The United States Government has cautioned Caribbean countries offering a Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) to be extra cautious about who they give their passports to, and ensure that recipients have no terrorist or crime links.
It gave the advice, in a statement issued by the US Embassy in Barbados yesterday, even as it made it that it was not advising regional countries on whether or not they should offer economic citizenship.
Under the CIP offered by countries like Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis and Dominica, foreign nationals are granted citizenship in exchange for a substantial investment in the country.
“The United States does not approve or disapprove individual aspects of citizenship by investment programmes,” the US statement said. “The United States strongly believes that all countries have an inherent responsibility to their citizens and the international community to review fully all applicants who seek a nation’s citizenship.”
“While the United States Government is willing to consult with governments on their citizenship investment programmes, the ultimate decisions to offer and how to operate such a programme, including the issuance of citizenship and related identifying documents, such as passports to applicants, lie with each individual government and not with the United States.”
But, the statement added, the US Government encourages and expects governments to be confident, beyond a reasonable doubt, that applicants are bona fide and their identities have been fully validated, and they have no ties to transnational criminal or terrorist organizations, before handing over citizenship.
The US Embassy did not identify any specific country in its statement.
However, there has been concern in Antigua and Barbuda about the government’s recent decision to remove Iraq from the list of countries whose nationals are barred from obtaining citizenship under the twin-island nation’s CIP.
The main opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) is strongly against it. Political leader Harold Lovell said late last month that given the entrenchment of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle Eastern country, that move and the decision by the Gaston Browne administration to establish a presence in Iraq, expose Antigua & Barbuda to danger and compromise the integrity of the country’s passport.
Last November, the St. Kitts and Nevis Government announced an immediate suspension of the processing of new CBI applications from citizens and residents of Syria.
The announcement came less than two weeks after ISIS carried out attacks in Paris, and also followed the arrest of Syrian nationals with fake passports in Honduras and St. Maarten, although the government did not publicly identify those developments as contributing to its decision.
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