Published 4 October 2017
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
STATEMENT BY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DR. DENZIL LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS CONDEMNING PRIME MINISTER DR. TIMOTHY HARRIS FOR DESTROYING THE ST. KITTS AND NEVIS CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT PROGRAMME
October 3, 2017 My fellow citizens and residents, over ten years ago, the government of St. Kitts and Nevis led by the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Administration, in response to the financial demands brought upon it by a series of natural disasters in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, a dying sugar industry, rising oil prices and the overwhelming need to renew our country’s infrastructure and provide equitably for all of our citizens, devised a number of creative policies to set St. Kitts and Nevis on a path of development and prosperity. These policies catapulted St. Kitts and Nevis to the Number One position in the Region. One such policy was geared towards resurrecting and rebranding the St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) and creating thereunder the Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation (SIDF) option. Hitherto, the St. Kitts-Nevis CIP was completely unknown to the World. The administration which I led created a CIP of which everyone could be proud and from which every citizen – professionals, low-income earners and students alike – could and did in fact benefit equitably.
