Prime Minister's warm welcome to Antigua & Barbuda

I welcome the new citizens of Antigua & Barbuda and wait with open arms to embrace others who are considering becoming citizens of our twin island nation. Our Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) is the very best in the Caribbean.

Since my government came to office in June 2014, Antigua & Barbuda’s economy has grown tremendously, especially through the creation of thousands of new jobs, reducing unemployment, seeking out new investment, and strengthening the social bonds that result in peace and tranquility throughout the nation.

My government has sought funding for projects that have game changing impacts. For example, more than US$100 million have been invested in our Deep Water Port to modernise it and transform it into a transhipment hub; the improvements have begun to lead to a greater role for Antigua, more job-creation, and general economic expansion. The spinoffs are measurable.

The fourth-landed campus of the prestigious University of the West Indies at Five Islands has already increased the number of trained minds. More than US$80 million is to be invested in its enlargement, which will have a game-changing impact on the Five Islands communities, while greater intellectual output of our youth is guaranteed.

The American University of Antigua (AUA) is to become the venue for the United Nations Small Island Developing States Conference (SIDS4). Tens of millions of dollars are being invested in a convention centre that will allow for large gatherings of convention-goers in the future following the May conference. It is already being marketed abroad to ensure quantifiable spinoffs.

The Coolidge Cricket Grounds, built to the highest standard for international cricket games, will also be used by Cricket West Indies Ltd as a technological hub to broadcast and edit games played by the West Indies teams everywhere and sold to television and internet broadcast stations around the globe. My government’s investment in black fibre and an undersea cable has enabled this miracle, placing Antigua on the same footing as technology applied in developed countries.

Choose Antigua & Barbuda as the country that will provide you with an outstanding investment opportunity and where you will always be secure and comfortable.

I invite you to examine our island state and choose Antigua & Barbuda as the country that will provide you with an outstanding investment opportunity and where you will always be secure and comfortable.

Honourable Gaston Browne

Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda