Skip to main content

FM
Former Member

Caricom calls on all `relevant parties’ to pass anti-laundering bill

Posted By Stabroek editor On March 12, 2014 @ 5:20 pm In Local News | No Comments

Following a two-day summit in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Caricom Heads today issued a statement calling on all “relevant parties” to enact long-stalled anti-money laundering legislation here.

The statement follows:

The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community regards with profound dismay, Guyana’s inability to enact the requisite legislation aimed at implementing the recommendations of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) to address deficiencies in its anti-money laundering regime.

We recognise that Guyana’s failure to enact this Bill will result in Guyana being blacklisted by CFATF and consequently have far-reaching implications and, indeed, repercussions on the economy of Guyana as well as that of every territory of the Region.  It will affect the cost of processing international transactions and will
adversely affect trade and financial flows in the Region.  The non-passage of the Bill will also retard the regional integration enterprise, limit the opportunity for growth in Guyana and the Region and result in hardship for the people of Guyana, and indeed, of the Region.

We call on all relevant parties to enact the necessary legislation in the national and regional interest.

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Well if the AFC give one inch now, they shall forever be condemned to the dustbins of history.

 

The PPP have to be combatted with the fullest of strength.

 

This is what Ramjattan said

 

 

President Donald Ramotar’s refusal to assent to a Bill passed by the House calling for Local Government Elections on or before August 1, 2014, represents the height of executive lawlessness.

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

This is the view held by Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Khemraj Ramjatttan, who in an invited comment yesterday opined that the President is afraid to go to the polls under the reformed regime put in place. “He knows that the PPP gun get dem tail cut,” said Ramjattan, who added that the President is fearful of the result of any such election, given that he does not want the People’s Progressive Party’s support base to realize how many have shifted away from what he calls the current “non-Jagan party.”

 

Continue Ramjattan.  Do not follow Granja and his mad advisor Mr. Tarron and the social contract sell out business.

 

All the want is power and they will sell their mother for power.

FM
Originally Posted by Brian Teekah:

Well if the AFC give one inch now, they shall forever be condemned to the dustbins of history.

 

The PPP have to be combatted with the fullest of strength.

 

This is what Ramjattan said

 

 

President Donald Ramotar’s refusal to assent to a Bill passed by the House calling for Local Government Elections on or before August 1, 2014, represents the height of executive lawlessness.

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan

This is the view held by Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader, Khemraj Ramjatttan, who in an invited comment yesterday opined that the President is afraid to go to the polls under the reformed regime put in place. “He knows that the PPP gun get dem tail cut,” said Ramjattan, who added that the President is fearful of the result of any such election, given that he does not want the People’s Progressive Party’s support base to realize how many have shifted away from what he calls the current “non-Jagan party.”

 

Continue Ramjattan.  Do not follow Granja and his mad advisor Mr. Tarron and the social contract sell out business.

 

All the want is power and they will sell their mother for power.

the people that vote for the AFC IS GETTING THEIR MONEY WORTH,Ram have to fight the ppp where they live in the gutter i personally will like ram to resort to the guns 

FM

We have to be careful with words here as far as the AML bill is concerned. This is not about AFC against PPP. It is about taking the process out of the hands of a government minister, who would not be independent and would be subject to party politics in his decisions, and putting it in the hands of someone or an organisation that all the interested parties can trust. As history has shown, the PPP cannot be trusted with anything. The PPP wants to be judge, jury, and defendant in the case of the AML bill. How can the house of thieves also be the decider of who should be investigated by the law, and who is guilty? That process is widely known as a kangaroo court. We don't have kangaroos in Guyana, so we recognize a strange animal when we see one.

Mr.T

Add Reply

×
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×