Chairperson of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) Allyson Maynard-Gibson will lead a visit by the regional body to Guyana tomorrow for discussions on the delayed anti-money laundering bill and opposition parties plan to justify their insistence on pre-conditions being met for its passage.
“They will be coming in on Saturday with the expectation of meeting the government and opposition parties, the Caricom Secretary General as well as the PSC [Private Sector Commission]… to re-emphasise the importance of a CFATF-compliant bill,” Attorney General Anil Nandlall told Stabroek News last evening, following a meeting of the parliamentary committee currently responsible for the stalled Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill.
There have already been several visits by CFATF officials on the bill.
Nandlall signalled that the executive remains concerned that the bill may not be passed by the time the CFATF plenary begins next month. It is hoping that the impending meetings would serve to convince the opposition about the importance of having the bill passed for Guyana and about the repercussions the failure
