Caribbean L 14 ife, April 19–25, 2019 BQ
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
She noted that the flu season in St
Lucia is usually between October and
March and peaks in December.
Belma-George said that, usually,
health officials start seeing
increases in flu cases
from October decreasing
during the period
January to March.
However, she said that, from 2018,
there has been an increase in cases during
December with significant increases
being recorded in March.
Trinidad
The Trinidad and Tobago government
has passed the controversial
“Explain Your Wealth Bill” legislation
with amendments, unanimously
supported by the Opposition United
National Congress (UNC).
The bill officially known as the Civil
Asset Recovery and Management and
Unexplained Wealth Bill 2019, seeks to
establish a civil assets agency and part
of its mandate will be to probe unexplained
wealth.
The Opposition had expressed concerns
about its initial form when it was
piloted by the attorney general, but he
agreed that some of the amendments
would be made by those submitted
by the UNC. The bill passed by all 34
MPs.
The legislation is enacted to recover
wealth accrued
by criminal activity,
recover property,
which includes property,
terrorist property
or an instrumentality
of crime, including the portion of
such property that may be mixed with
another property.
AG Faris Al-Rawi assured that the
bill would not affect citizens unless
they are being investigated under the
Proceeds of Crime Act, which covers a
range of offences from racketing, bribery,
terrorism and corruption, human
and drug trafficking, kidnapping, piracy
and other matters.
— compiled by Azad Ali
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