United Workers Party (UWP) candidate for Castries South Tommy Descartes is calling on the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) to account for its use of funds generated through the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP).
Addressing supporters at a UWP rally on William Peter Boulevard tonight, Descartes, a former chief economist in the Department of Economic Planning, questioned whether CIP revenues were under-reported.
“If Saint Kitts and Grenada can bring billions of CIP monies into their coffers, it is not far-fetched for us to wonder if billions of CIP monies are unaccounted for in Saint Lucia,” he said. “We cannot go to the polls without the Labour Party tabling the audited report of our CIP. We cannot go to the polls without that information.”
While acknowledging that Parliament has already been dissolved, Descartes insisted that the report must still be made public.
“I don’t know how they’re going to do it, but they have to do it, my brothers and sisters…. We want our annual report tabled in Parliament,” he insisted.
Despite issuing the call, Descartes told the crowd he did not expect the SLP to disclose those figures. He argued that “the only way” for Saint Lucians to get accountability on the CIP was to vote the Labour Party out on December 1.
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