PM’s Wife Defends Family Amid Trinidad Property Controversy and Hospital Contract Scrutiny

Wife of the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Mrs. Eloise Harris-Gonsalves.

By Val Matthias. Updated 7:28 a.m., Thursday, November 13, 2025, Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4).

Wife of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Mrs. Eloise Gonsalves, has taken to social media to denounce what she describes as a “vicious and dishonest” campaign targeting her family’s integrity, property investments in Trinidad and Tobago, and her brother Mr Cecil Harris, the Government of SVG’s project manager for the Taiwanese-funded US$125 million Strengthening Health Resilience Project.

In a passionate Facebook post, Mrs. Gonsalves affirmed her deep love for St. Vincent and the Grenadines while clarifying her Trinidadian birth and Dominican heritage. She explained that following the destruction of her then 90-year-old mother’s property during Hurricane Maria, her family purchased apartments in Trinidad “at market rate” to support relatives residing there. She emphasised that the acquisitions were made transparently and in response to a family tragedy.

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Mrs. Gonsalves also addressed anticipated criticism over a government contract awarded to her brother, an engineer involved in constructing the country’s new modern hospital. She described him as “immensely qualified” and warned that political opponents, particularly the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), would attempt to use the contract to undermine national progress.

“These power hungry people will stop at nothing to destroy all the good that SVG represents,” she said, urging citizens to consider the broader implications of such attacks on national unity and development.

The controversy erupted after Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Anil Roberts, publicly questioned how Mrs. Gonsalves and two of her children Storm and Soleil Gonsalves came to own apartments in the Victoria Keyes housing complex, a government-subsidized development in Diego Martin. Roberts raised the issue in a Facebook video, suggesting impropriety given the long waiting list of over 200,000 Trinidadian residents seeking similar housing.

Some political commentators in Trinidad and Tobago have accused the UNC administration of using the issue to try to meddle in SVG’s elections scheduled for November 27, an accusation Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister has denied.

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