Rachelle Agard, Author at Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network

Rachelle Agard

Rachelle Agard is a multimedia journalist at the Nation Publishing Company Ltd., where she has spent the last six and a half years. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication at the Ken Gordon School of Journalism and Communication Studies (Trinidad and Tobago), before moving back to Barbados to work at the Nation, where she always dreamt of working. Rachelle did not always see herself as a journalist, and ideally leaned more towards public relations while studying for her Associate Degree in Journalism and Public Relations, also completed in Trinidad and Tobago where she was born. However, over the years, she has learned to play to her strengths, and has found her niche in journalism over the years. Rachelle enjoys investigative journalism and the legal side of communications, especially during her annual court assignments. But she always believes the bigger news is found within the communities of every country she has had assignments.

Caribbean CBIs

St. Kitts & Nevis

How Much is Shrouded in Secrecy?

By

Andre Huie,

Rachelle Agard and

Glen Bart | May 22, 2022

The Citizenship By Investment Programme (CBI) of St. Kitts and Nevis seems shrouded in a troubling combination of secrecy, a lack of transparency and financial accountability.

The existing reporting by the government itself indicates the Commonwealth nation relies on its CBI programme for a large portion of its total revenue. Based on the Auditor General’s report of 2020, as much as 40% of the country’s revenue is derived from the CBI programme.

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The Caribbean’s Pandemic Pyramids and Ponzis

Even as Caribbean authorities wrestle with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators have been scrambling to formulate appropriate responses to an accompanying growth in unlawful pyramid and Ponzi schemes marketed as financial solutions to the impact of restrictive pandemic measures.

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