{"id":3028,"date":"2010-01-30T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2010-01-30T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:41:21","slug":"prime-minister-says-citizenship-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/prime-minister-says-citizenship-not-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Vincent Prime Minister says citizenship not for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC \u2013 The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it will not permit the sale of passports as an inducement to get foreigners to invest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves told Parliament on Friday that his administration would no longer engage in the practice and would resist any attempts to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Eastern Caribbean countries had embarked on the citizenship scheme as a means of luring foreign investment to their countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.svgtoday.com\/?p=625\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY ON SVGTODAY.COM<\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img.php_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3029\" title=\"img.php\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img.php_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC \u2013 The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it will not permit the sale of passports as an inducement to get foreigners to invest in the country. 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