Gonsalves to NDP: What’s the source of your $5 million

Prime Minister Dr.Ralph Gonsalves is calling on Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace to tell the nation the origins of a sum of money equivalent to EC $5million which was deposited into one of this country’s commercial banks.{{more}}

Gonsalves told the media on Friday, September 3, Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) had deposited a sum of money equivalent to EC$5million into two accounts in one of the country’s commercial banks: one in pound sterling and the other in United States currency.

Declining to disclose the commercial bank, Gonsalves also indicated that the accounts into which the sums were deposited belonged to another entity owned by SCL, Behavioural Dynamics Institute (BDI).

“Now when I make this disclosure, they may well move the money, but I’m telling you, I am saying to the nation that I have been reliably informed that Strategic Communications Laboratories sent to Behavioural Dynamics Institute to a commercial bank in this country $5M equivalent,” the Prime Minister said.

He also called on the Opposition to disclose the entity from which the money was collected and what business other than that of assisting the NDP with their campaign SCL was operating in the country.

“From whom has this money come? Has it come from an entity which you have promised to sell passports and citizenship of St Vincent and the Grenadines? What have you promised them Mr. Eustace, Mr. Mitchell? Tell the people of SVG and tell them where the money has come from,” Gonsalves demanded.

“I want the NDP, I want Mr. Eustace, I want Mr. Mitchell who is on the advisory board of SCL to explain the source of this $5M in two accounts, one in pounds sterling and the other in US dollars.”

“They must say what business they have in St Vincent and the Grenadines other than the business with the New Democratic Party and the elections,” Dr Gonsalves said.

“I said on a political platform that these guys love money so much that before the campaign was over they will trip themselves; we see them tripping themselves with their malignant bad mouthing of St.Vincent and the Grenadines on the Internet that we don’t have democracy, that we don’t have freedom and human rights,” he said.

“They protested outside the Financial Complex and nobody troubled them. I don’t even know if they got permission and legislation states that they have to be a certain number of yards from a ministerial building, but they were right on the fence,” the Prime Minister continued.

“What a democracy, what a freedom, yet they bad mouthing us overseas for foreigners to give $5 to save democracy, I think the people of this country are seeing their true colours.”(DD)