Gov’t will take anti-laundering bill back to House soonest – Nandlall

Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall yesterday said that the government will initiate measures to take the Anti-Money Launder-ing Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Amendment Bill back to the National Assembly.

The AML/CFT Amend-ment Bill was defeated by the combined votes of A Party for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) earlier this month ahead of Guyana’s assessment by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).

As a result, last week Guyana was found insufficiently compliant by CFATF which asked its