Published 29 May 2017
PM Timothy Harris, a no show at CDB Board of Governors Meeting and Antigua’s Citizenship by Investment event.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – The Federation’s Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was absent from two important meetings recently.
Prime Minister Harris was absent from a Citizenship by Investment Meeting hosted by Antigua and Barbuda and the 47th Annual Board of Governors Meeting of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
An informed source said Dr. Harris was invited to Antigua and Barbuda’s 2nd Annual Citizenship by Investment Conference.
Prime Minister Harris who attended last year’s conference was to speak along with local CBI officials.
It is said Prime Minister Harris did not show up, neither did Les Khan, the new CEO of the St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment programme.
Delegates from all other Caribbean programmes and several international partners were present.
Prime Minister Harris was also a no show at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in the Turks and Caicos Islands on May 24 and 25th..
No treasons were given for the absence of Prime Minister Harris from these meetings.
Dr. Harris was in attendance at a meeting of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly on May 23rd during which no major bills were on the Order Paper prompting speculation that the session of the lawmaking body was timed to coincide with the CDB meeting, to keep him at home.
The Caribbean Development Bank is a financial institution which assists Caribbean nations in financing social and economic programmes in its member countries.
CDB was established by an Agreement signed on October 18, 1969, in Kingston, Jamaica, and entered into force on January 26, 1970.
Based in Barbados, the headquarters serves all of the regional borrowing member countries with staff recruited from its members.
CDB’s membership of 27 countries consists of 19 regional borrowing members: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Other regional members are Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. Non-regional members are Canada, China, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Photo 1 – Opening Ceremony at the 47th Annual Board of Governors Meeting of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
Photo 2 – St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris
