After almost two hours of heated debate, government last evening passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill despite pleas from the opposition that it should not be rushed and ought to be sent to a Select Committee.
“Rather than bring a piecemeal bill after bill after bill since all of these things are already stacked against us, we could have brought one singular bill accumulating all of the deficiencies and all of the outstanding recommendations and bring them one time to this Parliament and pass it and we could have entered the fourth round (of international review) that he (Attorney General Basil Williams) is speaking about”, former Attorney General and opposition MP Anil Nandlall told the House.
During his hour-long presentation he continuously stressed that what is required to approach this issue holistically is located within the Chambers of the Attorney General including a Task Force and personnel who are
