Deli Caines
Press Secretary to the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP)
CHARLESTOWN,NEVIS (Monday, June 23, 2014)- Former Premier of Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry says all will be revealed in a “shady” land deal between a Senior Minister in the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM)-led Nevis Island Administration and an Iraqi national. Allegations have been making the rounds and gaining air time on talk shows in both Nevis and St. Kitts, that a senior minister in the Nevis Island Administration has facilitated the sale of government land at Potworks Estate through a company he owns with his wife.
The name of the contact person for the company Octagon Consulting can be seen on the Nevis Trust Limited website at: http://worldoffshorebanks.com/nevisoffshoretrust.php.
According to Hon. Parry, a Nevisian national initially approached the Iraqi to sell 5 acres of land in the vicinity of the Medical University of the Americas in the parish of St. James for US$1.5million. The Nevis Island Administration senior minister quickly arranged to sell the Iraqi national 10 acres of government-owned land for the same US$1.5 million through Octagon Consulting and Services Limited.
“A Senior Minister should not be selling land to an Iraqi/Iranian or anybody through a private company. It is wrong and the Minister should resign immediately! Isn’t this a form of bribery and conflict of interest?” questioned Hon. Parry
Parry concluded, “There are many questions to be asked about this land deal, and all will be revealed very soon!”