KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Feb 28, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has made yet another unsubstantiated claim that some local media are agents of foreign entities.
“And nowadays you see a number of things being written on some online publications. You see an increase in them. And you hear at least one radio station, possibly two – I could tell you they have online publications in relation to St. Vincent and the Grenadines and radio stations, I could tell you here today that they’re being paid by persons who operate out of an embassy in Barbados and one in Dominica, an embassy of a foreign country,” Gonsalves said on his weekly show on the state-owned NBC Radio .
He said it was not the embassy of the United States, Britain, Canada or a European Union country and Gonsalves said that this alleged embassy was not a Latin American country’s nor a country in the Middle East.
“It’s a country from the Asian continent. And people who going line up to sell the passports are also financing them, financing the opposition forces in the country,” Gonsalves told radio listeners.
“So, sometimes when you hear a man doing a commentary on radio, you think the radio paying he? He paying the radio station, and you know where he getting the money from? From overseas.”
In August 2023, Prime Minister Gonsalves claimed that people who had been associated with Cambridge Analytica and its offshoots had told him why they were targeting him and his government.
He claimed to have “an authentic document” with the initials of particular people who are journalists in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and are getting paid. But he did The prime minister, however, did not disclose these alleged initials.
Gonsalves, 78, who has been in office since March 2021, will seek a sixth consecutive term in office in general elections widely expected later this year, ahead of the February 2026 constitutional deadline.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, he seldom holds press conferences, opting to appear on state and private media where the hosts often mollycoddle him rather than engage in probative, journalistic enquiry.
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