KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, 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, several things are written in 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 about St. Vincent and the Grenadines and radio stations. I could tell you 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 in a Latin American country or a country in the Middle East.
“It’s a country from the Asian continent. And people 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 the radio, you think the radio is paying him? He is paying the radio station, and you know where he is getting the money from? From overseas.”
In August 2023, Prime Minister Gonsalves claimed that people 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 general elections widely expected later this year, ahead of the February 2026 constitutional deadline.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, he has seldom held press conferences, opting to appear on state and private media, where the hosts often mollycoddle him rather than engage in probative, journalistic inquiry.
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