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Attorney-General: Bahamas honoured to host first CFATF Regional AML/CFT Conference
By Kathryn Campbell, BIS
Apr 4, 2014 - 2:47:36 PM

Delegates participating in the First Regional Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Conference of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force are pictured. (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna).

Nassau, Bahamas – In welcome remarks Thursday, April 3 at the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force Regional AML/CFT Conference, Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Attorney General, Minister of Legal Affairs and Chairperson of Caribbean Financial Action Task Force said the Bahamas was “deeply” honoured to host the conference, the first of its kind.

Prime Minister Perry Christie presented opening remarks at the conference held April 2-3 at the British Colonial Hilton. Also in attendance were Philip Davis, Deputy Prime and Minister of Works and Urban Development, Ryan Pinder, Minister of Financial Services, and Damian Gomez, Minister of State in the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

The chairperson told the delegates that the region is counting on them to choose the “right path” at this juncture in its history. It is her prayer that conference deliberations will benefit future generations.

She said, “I welcome and thank those at ministerial level including the numerous attorneys general and ministers of justice and national security for taking time from their very busy schedules to join in making plans for all CFAT members to emerge at least 75 percent compliant at the end of the fourth round of mutual evaluations.”

Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs and Chairperson of Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, is pictured giving words of welcome remarks at the First Regional Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Conference of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force on Thursday, April 3 at British Colonial Hilton. Prime Minister Perry Christie is also pictured seated at far left. (BIS photo/Patrick Hanna).

Vladimir Nechaev, president of the Financial Action Task Force, gives the keynote address at the First Regional Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Conference of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force on April 3, 2014 at the British Colonial Hilton. (BIS photo/Patrick Hanna).

Delegates participating in the First Regional Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Conference of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force are pictured. In the first row fourth from left is: Prime Minister Perry Christie, Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Attorney General, Minister of Legal Affairs and Chairperson of Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, and Ryan Pinder, Minister of Financial Services .(BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna).

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