For ten years the Government of Antigua & Barbuda has avoided the payment of compensation for its expropriation of the private property known as Half Moon Bay Resort.

Aggression without consequences becomes acceptable behaviour. When aggression is crowned by success it creates a heady and addictive euphoria.

Emboldened by a new interpretation of public use by the UK Privy Council in the matter of the Half Moon Bay Resort, a US owned private property, expropriated by the Government of Antigua & Barbuda, the Attorney General of Antigua, Justin Simon, did not hesitate to seize the lands of master Ponzi fraudster, R. Allen Stanford within days of Stanford's indictment in the U.S.

According to the old adage, you are judged by the company you keep and your behaviour towards others. Money is no different. Arguably, this explains Antigua & Barbuda’s failure to attract sound foreign direct investment.

The Caribbean continues to be the world's top region for Citizenship by Investment (CBI). Stable legal institutions, straightforward pathways to citizenship and well-established...