Why the former Prime Minister of St. Kitts would rather sacrifice his seat in Parliament than keep his Dominica passport! A look at the true duel of the project from the country's leaders, Denzil Douglas, the former Prime Minister of St. Kitts, had to immediately withdraw his seat in Parliament because of his loyalty to Dominica.
The biggest news in the Caribbean lately is not the coronary, the new pneumonia, COVID-19. In a judgment handed down by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on March 12, 2020, it was declared that the former Prime Minister of St. Kitts, Denzil Douglas, by virtue of his allegiance, obedience or compliance to Domicile, violated the provisions of the Constitution and must withdraw from his seat in the National Assembly seat.
Updated April 29, 2021
Timothy Harris, the current Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis , was accused of holding a Dominica passport in a report in Caribbean News beginning in 2017
Harris, however, categorically denied holding a Dominica diplomatic passport or any other passport. He said, "He has never had a Dominica diplomatic passport or a passport of any other country except this beloved Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis." But a photo purportedly showing the Dominica passport of the St. Kitts prime minister has not been independently verified, and the photo has now been pulled from Caribbean News, although it is unclear why.
A day in the history of St. Kitts that cannot be forgotten
March 12, 2020
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has ruled that Denzil Douglas, former Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and current leader of the Labour Party, must immediately withdraw from his seat in the country's National Assembly for holding a Dominica diplomatic passport and allegiance to Dominica. In its judgment handed down on March 12, 2020, the court declared that "Denzil Douglas, as an individual, by virtue of his expression of allegiance, obedience, and compliance to Dominica, violated Article 28(1)(a) of the Constitution and must withdraw from his seat in the National Assembly."
February 21, 2018
The Attorney General of St. Kitts and Nevis, Vincent Byron, MP, told the House on January 23, 2018 that Denzil Douglas holds a diplomatic passport issued by Dominica, number DP0000462, proving that he is a citizen of Dominica. He said, "This can be confirmed by the proof of exhibits filed in the court documents." Denzil Douglas also admitted in an affidavit filed with the High Court Registry on February 21, 2018, and that he uses a Dominica diplomatic passport as a travel document.
Denzil Douglas (Denzil Douglas)
Longest-serving Prime Minister of St. Kitts
Denzil Douglas was born in the village of St. Pauls on January 14, 1953 and studied medicine at a young age. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the West Indies, Kevorkian in 1977 and his medical degree in 1984. Denzil Douglas was elected leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party in 1989. He was appointed Federal Prime Minister in 1995, beginning an illustrious political career that spanned 19 years and 226 days.
Prime Minister's term: July 7, 1995 to February 18, 2015, a total of 19 years and 226 days , the longest in history
Leader of the St. Kitts Labour Party
The Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), founded in 1932 and originally known as the St Kitts Workers' League, is the longest active political party in the English-speaking Caribbean. During the last three decades (1980 to present), it fell from being the second largest party in Parliament to the third largest in 1984; the leadership of Denzil Douglas made it the largest party with more than half of the seats in Parliament in 1995, and it ruled Parliament for almost 20 years. Douglas is still the leader of the Labor Party today.
The Great St. Kitts Passport Outreach
In the mid-2000s, the small Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis was the most indebted country in the world, with a stagnant economy and approximately 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line, exacerbating the gang problem and making the island nation of 50,000 people one of the highest murder rates in the world. After St. Kitts introduced its citizenship by investment program in 1984, in order to be the first country in the world to legally sell its citizenship, but with a complicated naturalization process, a troubled economy, and an ineffective government, passport migration was little known for the first decade, and after Denzil Douglas became prime minister in 1995 and led the Labor Party to control Parliament, in 2006 Everything changed. The government redesigned the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program that had been in place since 1984. To apply for citizenship under the CBI program, investors had to make a cash donation, invest in government bonds, or purchase property. In return for citizenship (nationality), approved foreigners in St. Kitts are granted visa-free access to coveted foreign markets, access to tax havens, escape from conflict in their home countries, and a vehicle for the super-rich to show off their wealth.In 2018, the global passport migration program generated $470,000,000 ($3.3 billion) in revenue, 25% (twenty-five percent) of which went into the pockets of St. Kitts . Article: Why You Need to Know These Five Things Before Buying a Home in St. Kitts
Promoting St. Kitts Real Estate
Passport program biggest hit in history
Now the only remaining legal passport immigrants, St. Kitts and Dominica are the first and second oldest, respectively (I posted a video sharing other countries that are still selling passports on February 7, 20201: Which passports can you legally buy? Which countries are selling passports for stronger guarantees and freer passage to become a world citizen in 2020? ) Only St. Kitts and Dominica, more than twenty years old, are also ranked second, and first, respectively, in the world passport program CBI INDEX, refer to the article: CBI INDEX.
Compare St. Kitts and Dominica
In another article :Why You Need to Know These Five Things Before Buying a Home in St. Kitts, there are details.
Explanation of Diplomatic Passport
In English speaking countries we find the following explanation of diplomatic passports in Wikipedia and Quora: A diplomatic passport is a passport issued to persons who work as representative of a government, the diplomatic passports are also issued only to diplomats and their accompanying family. The translation isA diplomatic passport is a passport issued to persons who work as representative of a government, the diplomatic passports are also issued only to diplomats and their accompanying family members .
St. Kitts National Leader Becomes Dominica's Grand Outreach
Denzil Douglas, who had a high reputation in St. Kitts and Nevis, the Caribbean, which was then stigmatized by a series of scandals involving drug trafficking and organized crime, began his first step as prime minister by reforming the police force, moving away from being a haven for organized drug trafficking and money laundering haven for organized drug trafficking and money laundering, and to address the long-standing violent crime, unrest, and he even enlisted the help of the British government to achieve his goals. The St. Kitts passport immigration program has been the gold passport program in the market before the launch of the Maltese and Cypriot immigration programs, and the Dominica Citizenship by Investment program, which was launched in 1990, has been improved with reference to the St. Kitts passport immigration.But Denzil Douglas applied for a Dominica passport to the court's recognition of his allegiance to Dominica, even on February 21, 2018, the day he submitted his application for a Dominica diplomatic passport .
Denzil Douglas supporters
Some of his supporters believe that Denzil Douglas has a Dominica passport that is not an ordinary passport, he has a Dominica diplomatic passport, so it makes sense for him not to give it up easily, which is a blind, selfish, unthinking and irresponsible explanation for St. Kitts, Denzil Douglas, perhaps you should ask.Why He Doesn't Use St. Kitts' Diplomatic Passport ? If one day the General Secretary of the People's Republic of China is found to have taken U.S. Diplomatic Passport What do you think the Chinese would think? The Caribbean Supreme Court has ruled conclusively that Denzil Douglas is unconstitutional.
Is St. Kitts broker, real estate program a death sentence
Denzil Douglas gave St. Kitts a complete makeover, leading the St. Kitts passport program through a decade of golden years, taking a gangster, reprehensible, money-laundering island off the map and allowing developers to make big bucks, but after the loss of the prime minister in 2015, first realtors got out of control one after another and couldn't deliver their homes (article: Why you need toKnow these five things ); then in 2018 the new Prime Minister Timothy Harris relaxed the $400,000 originally needed to buy a house, now only $200,000 (the same as Dominica ), but in 2019 a new information revealed that the current Prime Minister Timothy Harris is involved in a $100 billion dollar lawsuit that
Rewriting the history of the passport program
On March 12, 2020 the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Court of Appeal ruled that former Prime Minister Denzil Douglas (Denzil Douglas) for holding a diplomatic passport of Dominica, according to must immediately withdraw his seat in the country's National Assembly, allegiance to Dominica, obedience or compliance, as the leader of the promotion of St. Kitts passport immigration for nearly 20 years, once respected by how many supporters around the world. eventually chose the Dominica passport, admitted that he used the Dominica passport travel, travel as a citizen of Dominica, a leader of the promotion of St. Kitts passport is finally honest exposure of their own needs, we can not say that he lied for 20 years, although there have been similar cases in history. September 4, 2017, the media exposure of the Japanese MP Lianfang holds a passport of the Republic of China and stamped with the seal of the Embassy of the Republic of China in Korea (Kyung), triggering shock in Taiwan and Japan; and the scandal of Sun Xiang, a Chinese deputy to the National People's Congress, holding a passport from St. Kitts inBut being the Prime Minister of a Development Passport Program country holding a diplomatic passport of another country has never happened.
Denzil Douglas, who had a great vision and a 30-year political career that brought him the highest level of contacts around the world, is the one we feel sad about, but the most disappointed are the supporters who chose St. Kitts because of him, and now the real estate agents who actively promoted the financing of the purchase, the agencies who used to promote his passport, and we can only say.Take care and goodbye, St. Kitts Passport Immigration .
Why the Prime Minister of St. Kitts would sacrifice power to retain Dominica's identity
Under normal circumstances, a former leader of a country should still maintain some sort of privilege even if he has stepped down, especially a historically significant reformist politician like Denzil Douglas, but why he kept this Dominica passport, I made the following conjecture.
Dominica's identity has a better reputation
The St. Kitts passport has had its share of post-2015 scandals ( the Malaysian financial fraudster, Tzo Liu, involved in a corruption flight case, the Pilatus Bank money laundering case where the bank's president used two St. Kitts passports to evade sanctions, 105 white passports seized while transiting the Caribbean, Denzil Douglas detained at Gatwick Airport in the UK for carrying £70,000 in cash, the Sun Xiang incident in northern Hebei province ), while the Dominica passport has retained a good reputation for.
Denzil Douglas is likely to be involved in some legal proceedings even after he abdicates, so he needs a cleaner identity. (Reference passport program comparison: lists international scandals involving St. Kitts immigrants )
The Prime Minister also needs a second passport
Are you wondering why Denzil Douglas didn't apply for a U.S. passport, a Canadian passport, or even a British passport? There are two straightforward answers: 1) he couldn't pass the U.S. due diligence, or 2) he was too sensitive to hold dual citizenship, but you can figure out what the answer is.
Asset Separation
Another reason why I think he insists on not giving up his Dominica status is that he has used his Dominica passport to hold bank accounts, property, or other assets abroad that are of such magnitude that they generate more interest than he would have if he had retained his seat in the country. My guess is that Denzil Douglas, who was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Security, Immigration, Development, Lands, Tourism, Sports and Culture, has the need to retain his Dominica passport for asset protection. See the following article:
- Dominica Passport Offshore Bank Account Opening
- Three things you are advised to do immediately after getting your Caribbean passport
- How to move your money safely overseas and successfully avoid CRS
- Tax number and overseas bank account to avoid taxes and legally prevent automatic information exchange
Judgment Download
The Eastern Caribbean Court of Justice made public the judgment of Denzil Douglas, which can be downloaded here if you are interested in reading it.
The next conjecture may happen
The Denzil Douglas verdict has only just begun and has yet to affect the heat of the St. Kitts passport program, so let's venture a guess as to what might happen next.
St. Kitts Passport Declines in Gold Content
St. Kitts passport holders can visit 154 countries visa-free (reference: passport immigration program comparison ), also belongs to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, only Denzil Douglas (Denzil Douglas) incident occurred, but still can not change history - St. Kitts is still the world's first Commonwealth country to launch an investment citizenship program, in this premise, I think St. Kitts Under this premise, I think it is still very unlikely that St. Kitts will lose its passport.
St. Kitts property values fall
After Denzil Douglas (Denzil Douglas) ended nearly 20 years as prime minister, the Labor Party lost control of the parliamentary seat at the same time, the new prime minister began to rectify the property immigration program, only to have many scandals break out again (reference: BCBIC ), the government introduced in 2018 to lower the threshold for buying a house to immigrate to control the shaky property market, I think a short time house prices The decline is still within the controllable range.
Other Caribbean passports regain attention
The passport program of Caribbean countries has always been king with St. Kitts and Dominica, Antigua and St. Lucia passport immigration may take this opportunity to make a big outreach, especially since St. Lucia is the only country that has diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but unfortunately St. Lucia is also a CRS country.The automatic exchange of financial accounts with China has been activated on January 1, 2018 .
St. Kitts properties are hard to get rid of
The biggest difference between St. Kitts and Dominica passport immigration projects is that St. Kitts passport immigrants can choose to invest in property far more than the Dominica passport immigration project, the reason is that the former Prime Minister of St. Kitts Denzil Douglas (Denzil Douglas) approved a large number of property projects to developers, the benefit is to help the country bring in external funds, but from the current financing to buy property speculation, lower the investment threshold, the However, the current speculation in financing the purchase of properties, the lowering of the investment threshold, and the introduction of the new fast-track program show that the current government team is currently at its wits' end, and that there will be no market in the future. Article: Why You Need to Know These Five Things Before Buying a Home in St. Kitts
Tighter scrutiny of St. Kitts passport program
St. Kitts issued a statement on January 30, 2020 that biometric fingerprints will be taken from applicants due to scandals, negative media blowback, real estate developer malpractice, and the scandal involving former Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, making it necessary for the new government to come up with a response.
Passport immigration trends
INCREASE IN DEMAND FOR OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS AND CRS AS INQUIRIES SURGE
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