Chief Executive Officer of the Citizenship By Investment Unit, Charmaine Donovan is congratulating the five OECS countries which operate CBI programmes for being leaders in the migration investment industry.

Donovan made the observation on Thursday as she welcomed delegates to the Caribbean Investment Summit 2025 that is being held at the American University of Antigua Conference Centre.

“We continue to create history! Small island developing states, operating in a global marketplace, delivering competitive value and transforming our economies.

“And we continue to do it so well that we speak with authority and engage at the highest levels to strengthen our programmes and safeguard shared border interests,” she observed.

As participants prepare for the start of two days of discussions and networking, CEO Donovan noted that the OECS CBI countries are impelled to bring all their experience, intellect, national and regional ambitions to this discursive table and to frame them within the context of both the threats and opportunities which confront them.

“Our focused objectives should be the crafting of future ready, innovative investment immigration programmes, poised to respond to emerging market adjustments and targeted for national transformation,” she added.

Donovan encouraged all attendees to avail themselves of all the industry experts and change agents present at this summit.

Scores of participants representing representatives from CBI units from Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, Grenada and Dominica as well as representatives from agents, due diligence companies along with several entities that offer a wide variety of services in this migration investment industry.

The conference is significant as it brought together heads of government of the five states who shared the importance of the CIP’s to the economies of their respective countries.