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schemes to go ahead.
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The
WIAD's unofficial line on Hong Kong emigration
to the Caribbean DTs (and the one we suggest you
use on this occasion!) is to counsel caution.
effect of large numbers of Hong Kong belongers
settling in Anguilla would be politically and
socially explosive, and would ruin any chance
Anguilla might have had of getting the present
immigration restrictions lifted after 1997.
would also, I suspect, be unacceptable to the
That said, a average xenophobic Anguillian.
limited inflow each year of say 20 - 30 Hong Kong
belongers with money to spend and businesses to
open, could play a useful role in developing and
If the local expanding Anguilla's economy.
government was interested in pursuing a limited "insurance policy" scheme of this kind and in
these numbers, we would have no objection.
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