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“The ECCU cannot afford a Governor who has an appetite for such affordable opulence”

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KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Mar 5, CMC -St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Wednesday said he would neither confirm nor deny, sending any correspondence to the Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, regarding the construction of a multi-million dollar (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) official residence for the Governor of the St. Kitts-based Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, (ECCB), Timothy Antoine.

“I do not want to say more than I have said there, and I’m not confirming or denying any correspondence I’ve sent or alleged to have been sent until I consider the time appropriate. I try not to get ahead of myself,” Gonsalves said on his weekly programme on the state-owned NBC Radio.

“The Governor of his own motion may wish to consider whether or not his continued  occupancy of his Office is tenable in all the circumstances. This s likely to be a painful, personal decision,”  Gonsalves wrote in the  February 17, 2025 letter to Prime Minister Browne.

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