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Artificial intelligence is transforming middle-class jobs. Can it also help the poor? What is the long-term outlook for commodities? CIP St Lucia gambling the odds. By Caribbean News Global. Businessman Aleksandar Mijajlovic Nationality Montenegro , Bemax LLC, a registered company in Saint Lucia, December 23, , was reportedly arrested on January 19, , and is suspected of creating a criminal organization that was engaged in cigarette smuggling.
Effective 1 July , Saint Lucia increased excise tax on tobacco products by 50 percent. Saint Lucia is a well-known transhipment accessory to the underworld of illicit trade in narcotics and cocaine, that originates from South America. This activity feeds the tringle of nearby islands en route to Europe. Trade in guns, ammunition, and motorcycles are conventional trade-off between the islands — 45 minutes with an adequate watercraft.
Areas initially earmarked for housing development are Rock Hall, where land clearing has commenced. There has not been one issue with our CIP programme. No one has raised any negatives regarding the due diligence of our programme. Our programme is now well poised to deliver infrastructure in the form of roads, community centres, and hotels to our people without increasing the national debt.
The new infrastructure option requires developers to raise the financing needed to undertake approved projects in a number of selected areas and recover their expenses through CIP. September 13, , CIP press release, said:. We believe St Lucians need more housing, and St Lucians need more options, and at the same time we will do whatever we can to make sure that we do not expose this country to any, am, you know, any unnecessary, am associations.
