St.Kitts-Nevis🌴 | Attorney ⚖️| IG: shevylevyy
Basseterre, St.Kitts
Joined October 2011
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You really cannot have a proper conversation with people who want to be mad and are stupid at the same time.
I also want us to understand that the convo must go beyond simply “losing visa-free travel”, a big part of it as well is access to the international banks that our banking sectors rely on.
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Some personal thoughts: The EU’s mounting pressure on Caribbean states to end their Citizenship by Investment Programmes, with St. Kitts and Nevis this week signalling an end to its programme and Antigua and Barbuda having previously indicated a similar course, deserves reflection beyond the immediate visa and geopolitical alignment debates. 1/14-
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With all this, the question is not whether legitimate concerns should be addressed. Oh yes, they absolutely should. Rather, it is whether small states can ever satisfy international expectations when the ultimate response to their economic competitiveness is to demand and unduly pressure that an entire industry cease operating. 9/14
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Same EU pressure. Five different answers
🇰🇳 St Kitts: winding down on a timeline being negotiated with the EU. Still open for now
🇦🇬 Antigua: has offered to wind down by 2030
🇱🇨 St Lucia: has replied to the EU in writing and says it won't simply abandon its programme
🇬🇩 Grenada: wants to keep both CBI and visa-free Schengen 🇪🇺
🇩🇲 Dominica: PM Skerrit has publicly defended CBI
Nobody knows yet how this ends. The families who planned early have the most options.
as a SKN National, it’s so heartbreaking that our tiny island pioneered such a big industry/program, only to be pressured by larger territories to close 🥲
but we move, we’ve always been small but tall.
