Comparative regional report on citizenship law: Anglophone Caribbean With regard to a person who has made “special achievements for a country,”45 only St. Vincent and the Grenadines provides that a person who has made “substantial contributions” to the cultural development/growth of St. Vincent and the Grenadines may receive citizenship through a discretionary registration process.46 Refugees and stateless persons Beside the aforementioned special populations, the Anglophone Caribbean is also limited in offering special registration for refugees and stateless persons. Of the 12 countries, less than a handful provide the possibility of citizenship for refugees and/or stateless persons and, even then, what the particular procedure is for the refugee or stateless person to follow to acquire citizenship is not always clear. The cases of Belize and Jamaica are illustrative. Both Belize and Jamaica are Member Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, but neither has a publicly available and clear citizenship acquisition path for these populations. Furthermore, while neither the Belizean Constitution nor Nationality Act mentions refugees specifically when it comes to citizenship acquisition, its Refugee Act acknowledges “a person shall cease to be a refugee” if “he becomes a citizen of Belize” (Article 4[3c]). Similarly, in its 2009 Refugee Status Determination Procedure Jamaica stipulates that refugee status is removed for those individuals who acquire Jamaican citizenship (Article 23(a)iii), but no clear registration or naturalisation process is evident.47 As Table 5 illustrates, other countries are also party to the 1951 Convention, yet do not appear to have any explicit and/or standardised process in place for refugees to acquire citizenship. Only Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines state that “political refugees”48 are able to acquire citizenship through discretionary procedures. Further discussion of refugees and citizenship acquisition is addressed in the fourth section of this report. 45 See mode A24 in the GLOBALCIT database on modes of citizenship acquisition. The individual must also be of good character, possess adequate knowledge of the English language, acknowledge citizenship responsibilities, and have offered these special achievements over the past five years prior to the application. 47 Refer to Government of Jamaica (2009) for the text of the refugee status determination procedure. 48 The scope of who falls under the definition of a refugee is not limited to those who have escaped persecution due to political reasons. The 1951 Convention is clear that reasons of “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group” also are grounds upon which people are persecuted. Since that Convention, numerous Declarations and studies have further expanded the scope of refugeehood, yet the term “political” refugee continues in some of these Anglophone Caribbean countries. 46 14 RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-Comp. 2020/3 - © 2020 Authors