Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew marked a serious step within the authorities’s efforts to strengthen the nation’s most essential financial program Citizenship by Funding Unit (CIU) by formally opening its new headquarters on Monday, March tenth, 2025.
The brand new CIU workplace is positioned on the Lime Kiln Industrial Growth and is constructed to strengthen the Unit’s position on a world degree. PM Drew mentioned that the primary purpose behind the event of this world-class facility is to create a optimistic surrounding to encourage development.
The opening ceremony was attended by a number of key authorities officers, enterprise companions, and CIU employees.
PM Terrance Drew highlights the position of CIU
Throughout the opening ceremony, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis highlighted the importance of CIU in enhancing the Federation’s monetary stability. PM Drew additional restated the federal government’s dedication in reworking St Kitts and Nevis to a extra modernized twin island nation.
He mentioned that they can’t ask folks to carry out at excessive ranges with out having the proper atmosphere. PM Drew additional acknowledged that this was chosen by way of a clear and open mechanism to be sure that it turns into an atmosphere the place worldwide enterprise could be performed.
PM Drew acknowledges selections undertaken by CIU
Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew acknowledged the work accomplished by the CIU management and employees in sustaining the Federation’s worldwide popularity and appreciated the selections made by them in the previous few months that helped stabilize this system and ensured its long-term success.
Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew underscored the essential measures taken on the CIU to bolster good governance, danger and compliance, and customer support. It’s to be famous that these steps have been vital in persevering with confidence amongst international companions and regulatory our bodies.
Based on PM Drew, safeguarding CIU is de facto simply defending St Kitts and Nevis, significantly at this level of their current financial and monetary historical past.
PM Drew acknowledged in the course of the ceremony that their visa entry to worldwide companions was beneath critical menace, and fast motion needed to be taken as a way to protect that whereas balancing the enterprise of the CIU.
Authorities’s imaginative and prescient for CIU
PM Drew outlined the federal government’s imaginative and prescient for the CIU is to equip the unit’s employees with the most recent coaching and know-how to enhance the effectivity and repair supply.
He mentioned that the employees have to be supplied with world-class coaching and newest know-how to supply good customer support and develop the enterprise.
PM Drew added that they’re on their method to grow to be the very best workplace within the citizenship-by-investment trade.