Caribbean Heads of Government and the region’s law enforcement institutions could come under greater pressure to pay attention to what a high-profile US integrity ‘watchdog’ institution has cited as an apparent increase in what we in the region describe as scams but which are more widely known as fraud schemes.
It would appear that the US-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) a Washington, DC think tank that pays attention to illicit financial flows, corruption, illegal trade and money laundering has picked up on indications that these kinds of crimes are becoming more prevalent in the Caribbean.
