Author: Staff

Published 29 May 2017

Judge rules court challenge by Team Unity/
PAM supporters an abuse of the process.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – High Court Judge Marlene Carter has ruled that an attempt by Team Unity/PAM supporters Mr. Rupert Earle and Mr. William Liburd to remove two Nigerian students and all Commonwealth citizens from the Register of Voters “an abuse of process of the court.”

Earle and Liburd by claim form filed on 13th January 2014, petitioned the High Court seeking a declaration that two Nigerian students – Oluwabunmi Jesufemi Ayorinde and Osanoto Akolade Samuel who were studying medicine in St. Kitts are not qualified voters; that a person entering the Federation as a student under the Immigration Act is not a person qualified to be registered as a voter; is not a resident under the Immigration Act and that a Commonwealth citizen entering St. Kitts and Nevis are not ordinarily resident in St. Kitts and Nevis so as to be registered as a voter under the National Elections Act.

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Published 29 May 2017

Pundit: PM Harris playing political gimmickry, trickery and banditry in the appointment of a PAC.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – A political pundit is of the view that the request by Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris to Opposition Leader Dr. Denzil Douglas to name two members on the proposed Public Accounts Committee (PAC) “is in keeping with his modus operandi of deceit and deception.”

“It is just a glaring attempt not only to stall the process, but am of the firm view also one of window dressing to avoid embarrassment,” ahead of the upcoming 42nd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) meeting here next month.

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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).

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Published 29 May 2017

Top international due diligence expert says the former Government cannot be criticised for granting citizenship.

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, May 29th 2017 – A top executive at an international due diligence firm is defending the decision of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) government to approve economic citizenship for a Chinese national now wanted in Beijing for fraud.

Vice Chairman and Global Head of Immigration Citizenship and Visa (ICV) Practice at Exiger Diligence, Kim Marsh told Antigua’s Observer Media on the sidelines of the 2nd Annual Citizenship by Investment Conference in Antigua and Barbuda.

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