The 1.34 million questions on the NDP’s election money

Editor: The Leader of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), Arnhim Eustace, has finally and reluctantly acknowledged that the NDP received a whopping donation of EC$1.34 million dollars (US$500,000), 10 days or so before the last general elections of December 2015. In doing so, Eustace dragged every metaphoric red herring across the trail, in a sorry attempt to divert the people’s attention from the important questions at stake.{{more}}

Eustace is now required to answer truthfully, the following queries.

1. What is the name of the offshore company and who is the beneficial owner of this company?

2. Is the beneficial owner in any way connected to, or interested in, the NDP “economic citizenship” proposal of selling “SVG citizenship and passports”?

3. Is the beneficial owner of the offshore company connected to, in anyway, with “passport selling” in any other Caribbean, or other country?

4. Given the fact that the NDP has a bank account at RBTT in SVG, why was it necessary to have “the campaign contributor” send the money to the lawyer’s account, at the same bank, and then have that lawyer transfer the money (in two tranches) to the NDP’s account?

5. Did the NDP make any promise to the beneficial owner of the offshore company, to be fulfilled, if the NDP won the elections? If so, what was the promise? Was it to grant exclusivity to the beneficial owner/campaign contributor to sell SVG’s citizenship and passports? Or, was it part of a sweet-heart deal for government lands at Chatham Bay, Spring in Bequia or Mt. Wynne?

6. Did this beneficial owner/campaign contributor involve itself in a range of dirty tricks in the last campaign against the ULP and it’s leader?

7. Why did no one else in the NDP camp know about this contribution?

8. Why was the NDP campaign starved of funds in the last days of the election campaign when it had a stash of money at the bank?

9. Is this campaign contributor still determined to help the NDP in unseating the ULP and destroying Ralph, so as to get its own way in SVG? Is this not NDP’s embrace of neo-colonialism and dancing with a foreign “devil”?

I have heard and read Eustace’s response. I say simply: It is pure “Balls”, at least to this juror, whom I believe speaks for SVG in this matter.

Martin “Ballajiero” Fredericks