Legitimate business has nothing to fear from anti-money laundering deadlines – Harmon

Joe Harmon

APNU executive Joe Harmon yesterday declared that Guyanese doing legitimate business had nothing to fear from the deadlines set for the passage on the anti-money laundering bill.

His statement came amid a torrent of dire warnings from the government, the various arms of the ruling party and the constituents of the private sector ahead of an upcoming country review by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the regional body with oversight of this area.

When the National Assembly convenes next Thursday for the first sitting since the end of the parliamentary recess last month, the