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Antigua envoy: US report
on anti-money laundering
‘fairest ever seen’
By Nelson A. King
Antigua and Barbuda’s
Ambassador to the United
States, Sir Ronald Sanders,
has described the
2019 US International
Narcotics Control Strategy
Report (INCSR) on
Antigua and Barbuda as
“the fairest report” he
has seen in years.
Every year, the US
State Department compiles,
for the US Congress,
a report in two volumes
of drug trafficking
and money laundering in
jurisdictions around the
world, noted the Antigua
and Barbuda Government
in a statement on Friday.
It said Sir Ronald
has been a critic of past
reports, “which relied on
unverified information
from undisclosed sources
and, therefore, reached
inaccurate and damaging
conclusions.”
The reports, in addition
to being sent to the
US Congress, are made
public by the US State
Department on its website.
“The 2019 Report is far
fairer and more balanced
than previous reports”,
said Sir Ronald, stating
that the report “takes
account of scrupulous
assessments of the Antigua
and Barbuda jurisdiction
conducted by
the Caribbean Financial
Action Task Force that
found the country to be
one of the top performers
in the Caribbean on its
anti-money laundering
and counter terrorism
financing regimes.”
The report states that
Antigua and Barbuda
has improved its AML
(Anti-Money Laundering)
regime.”
It also recognizes
that, “The government
has developed a national
action plan to address the
issues” noted in a National
Risk Assessment, and
that “the National Anti-
Money Laundering Oversight
Committee and
other relevant agencies
are also amending their
policies and procedures
accordingly.”
With regard to drug
trafficking, Antigua and
Barbuda was assessed as
part of the Eastern Caribbean
which, the report
states, “have strong working
relationships with the
United States on drug
control operations.”
The report states that,
during the first nine
months of 2018, “Antigua
and Barbuda reported
142 drug-related arrests
with 70 prosecutions and
66 convictions”.
“The 2019 US INCSR
confirms that Antigua
and Barbuda, as a jurisdiction,
is aggressive in
enforcing both its drug
interdiction policies and
its anti-money laundering
regime,” Sir Ronald
said.
He said he has written
to the US State Department
commending the
authors for “a fairer and
more balanced report”,
according to the statement.
Grenadian killed in
Brooklyn hit-and-run
By Nelson A. King
Police in New York say Linda Douglas,
67, the sister of former Grenada
Member of Parliament, George Prime
was fatally struck by an 18-wheeler flatbed
truck in a hit-and-run accident in
Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday morning.
Prime served as Minister of Carriacou
and Petit Martinique Affairs
for the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) Government, in Grenada’s House
of Assembly, between 2008 and 2013.
Police in Brooklyn are asking the
public for information on the killing of
Douglas, as she headed to work in Harlem
around 4:50 am.
Police said, Douglas, who was born
in Aruba but grew up in Carriacou,
the larger of Grenada’s two sister isles
– the other is Petite Martinique – was
in the crosswalk at Nostrand and Flatbush
avenues in the Flatbush section
of Brooklyn, when she was hit by the
18-wheeler.
John Douglas, Douglas’s husband,
told reporters that his wife, who
worked as a nursing assistant, was
up early Wednesday, heading to work
for 6:00 a.m., at a nursing facility in
Harlem.
“She was very quiet, very peace loving,”
said Mr. Douglas, crying. “I can’t
take it.”
He said Linda, who migrated to New
York almost 50 years ago, was hoping
to retire from her job at the unidentified
nursing facility in a few weeks.
Police said they have located the
truck and have been speaking with the
driver, according to television station
Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
No charges are yet filed against the
driver.
Linda was the mother of two grown
children and a grandmother of one.
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