{"id":717066,"date":"2023-09-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=717066"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:34:26","slug":"business-talk-dr-ernest-hilaire-unpacks-the-saint-lucia-citizenship-by-investment-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/717066\/business-talk-dr-ernest-hilaire-unpacks-the-saint-lucia-citizenship-by-investment-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk &#8211; Dr Ernest Hilaire on the benefits of living in Saint Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk with Michael Avery, Dr Ernest Hilaire &#8211; Saint Lucia\u2019s Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture, and Information &#8211; discusses the Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hilaire represents the Castries South constituency in the House of Assembly for the Saint Lucia Labour Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously served as the Personal Assistant to Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony, was the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and managed Saint Lucia\u2019s co-hosting of the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also appointed Saint Lucia\u2019s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in November 2012 and is a former Chairman of the Citizenship Investment Programme (CIP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Hilaire highlights why Saint Lucia is an excellent place to live and unpacks the benefits of acquiring citizenship through the Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explains how long it usually takes for applications for citizenship to be completed, and discusses the four investment options available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilaire concludes the interview by detailing the importance of building partnerships to help people secure their Saint Lucia citizenship through the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch the full interview with Dr Ernest Hilaire below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGZEQ6DlsTY?si=FtIRdwBI1CfW3EZv\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, Hilaire highlights why Saint Lucia is an excellent place to live &#8211; and how South Africans can make this a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":717068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[18468],"class_list":["post-717066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-saint-lucia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720128,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717066\/revisions\/720128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}