Guyana has submitted its report to the Financial Action Task Force and amended its relevant legislation among a host of other measures, but the country remains deficient in relation to its international commitments.This past week Guyana made its most recent submission to FATF by a team headed by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs,Jerseys NFL Cheap, Basil Williams.FATF noted that since June 2015, Guyana has taken steps toward improving its Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act,Cheap Jerseys Online, “however, the FATF has determined that certain strategic deficiencies remain.”It has since recommended that Guyana should continue to implement its action plan,China Jerseys, by ensuring and implementing an adequate legal framework for identifying, tracing and freezing terrorist assets.FATF also wants Guyana to ensure a fully operational and effectively functioning financial intelligence unit; establish effective measures for customer due diligence and enhancing financial transparency and implement an adequate supervisory framework.Guyana’s deficiencies in meeting FATF compliance has seen it being placed in a category of countries with strategic shortcomings including, Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola,NFL Jerseys China, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Syria and Uganda among others.In pronouncing on this group of countries, FATF did observe that as part of its ongoing review of compliance with the AML/CFT standards, FATF has to date identified several jurisdictions that have strategic AML/CFT deficiencies for which they have developed an action plan with the FATF.? Guyana is one.The international body did note,Wholesale China Jerseys, too, that while the situations differ among each jurisdiction,NFL Jerseys Supply, each jurisdiction has provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies.In June when the newly installed coalition A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) got down to business, one of the first moves was to seek to pass the amendments to the AML/CFT legislation.During the course of that debate, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) opposition had argued that the legislative amendments would not be compliant with the Regional and international bodies.The Party also had heavy criticism for US Charg? d’ Affaires, Bryan Hunt, who had expressed his support for the revised bill.The PPP stated that the envoy “was not fully informed or was speaking about the wrong Bill”, by stating that the Bill was fully compliant with CFATF/ FATF regulations.The government subsequently went ahead with the tabling of the AML/CFT amendments and subsequent passage.

Nicaraguan officials and a Chinese company broke ground Monday last on a US$50B transoceanic waterway predicted to rival the Panama Canal,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, but which has been a source of anger and protests from citizens in recent weeks.Citizens are concerned about losing their lands and about the secrecy surrounding the project.The secrecy problem facing citizens of Nicaragua is similar to the issue facing Guyanese citizens with many of the projects that the Chinese are involved in including the Amaila Falls Hydro Project.The groundbreaking of the canal project marked the start of some ancillary projects in Brito, a city about three miles from Nicaragua’s Pacific coast where the first port will be built.Thousands of Nicaraguans have protested in the lead-up, fearing their land will be taken without fair compensation.“We’re not going to allow them to kick us out of our property. We’re ready to die before we give our property to the Chinese,” said Orlando Ocampo, who leads the farmers in Tule,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, a municipality about 150 miles southeast of Managua on the Caribbean side of the canal route.As work officially began, Nicaraguan and international reporters hoped to see any evidence of how it would be done in a fraction of the time it took to build the much-shorter Panama Canal, or discover who would pay for it, were left with more questions than answers.Reuters reported that at events marking the start of what is meant to be a five- year job, Nicaraguan officials and the Hong Kong-based company behind the canal dodged questions about its financial backers,Cheap Jeseys NFL, mounting delays and whether Washington had been consulted.So far the company, the HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd, or HKND Group, of telecoms entrepreneur Wang Jing, has identified only $200 million in funding.“The canal has one enemy and that’s the lack of information,” said Benjamin Lanzas, head of Nicaragua’s construction industry group, who met Wang in China. “That lack of information has created a great deal of speculation.”At 172 miles (278 km), the waterway is over three times the length of the 100-year-old Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States 34 years after French engineers began it.The five-year timetable in Nicaragua has led many to surmise the Chinese government is secretly bankrolling the plan, which both China and Wang have repeatedly denied.Yet Wang’s reluctance to reveal his backers or much of his business background has failed to dispel suspicions.For now, China’s government can stay aloof and claim no part in the project in case it founders, experts say.Experts say too that China may be deliberately keeping distance from the project as “If it fails, that’s a bad image. They have to maintain their distance.”China’s involvement would be a direct challenge to the United States, which controlled the Panama Canal until 1999.Last year, Ortega’s allies in Congress fast-tracked legislation granting Honk Kong-based HKND a 50-year concession, renewable for another 50, to build and operate a canal in return for a payment of $10 million a year once it’s up and running. The law lets HKND develop ancillary projects, Ports,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, an airport, roads, and a railway even if the canal doesn’t get built.Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, with Wang Jing,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, president of the contracting firm HKND Group,NFL Jerseys China, said the canal will change the economy of Nicaragua, one of Latin America’s poorest countries, as well as the rest of the hemisphere.

Someone once said, “Memory… is the diary that we all carry aboutPandit Sugrim giving some ice cream to Mrs Spoonerwith us”. How true this is for Ismay Spooner who would be celebrating her 111th birthday on December 27,Cheap Jerseys China, this year. Spooner a Bajan who came to British Guiana with her mother as a young girl during the indentureship era,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, lives in the hidden community of Little Africa,Discount NFL Jerseys, Corriverton. Her memory is remarkably good and in order. She remembers everything in the order that it unfolded in her life. It’s an amazing experience to sit and experience the lively and buoyant personality of this centenarian and members of the New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian mission certainly knows where to go to draw golden wisdom and true longevity.Pandit Suresh Sugrim and several members of the mission made a recent stop at Spooners’ living quarters at Little Africa, Corriverton, where she is being supported by a church member.These days she is confined to a bed because of weak muscles and blindness but her dynamic personality is a strong reminder of the explosive individual Spooner was in the days of her youth.She said that she was born in Barbados. Her father died in Panama while working. Her mother Louis Hewitt gave birth to her and the nurse that delivered her told her mother to give her donkey’s milk. Spooner said that she was so weak and frail as an infant that no one expected her to survive.Her desperate mother gave the donkey milk mixed with hers; she sprung up and everyone was surprised.At that point of the conversation she struck a note. “Oh what you think about Jesus? He’s alright… What you think about Jesus? He is dynamite…Don’t tell me that my God is dead he woke me up this morning…’Spooner outlived her sibling, Lionel,Wholesale NFL Jerseys 2018, her mother,Cheap China Jerseys, her first husband, a Scottish plantation Overseer,Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping, Pierce Harold, and also a second husband.She maintains a very strong accent of the people from the land of the flying fish.It was indeed a moment to cherish being in the presence of someone who has lived across an entire century and is still going. To get her going takes nothing much and Pandit Sugrim knows the secret; ice cream and chocolate.He sat and fed her while she blurted out song after song. All who visited Spooner were touched and somehow waited for her to bless them. That day it was just something out of this world for Pandit Sugrim who said he has fallen in love with the lively Spooner. The mission has been helping to care for the centenarian for several years now.Spooner lives with Virginia February, a fellow Seventh Day Adventist sister in a house made available by another church member aback their yard.

Scotiabank’s Central Retail Collection Unit and Credit Risk Management (CRCU/CRM)(Above) Scotiabank CRCU/CRM Team members present the cheque to a representative from the Red Cross Society’s Convalescent Home.(Below) CRCU staffers with children of the Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre.Team under the bank’s Community Program recently donated US$1000 towards improvements and maintenance of the Red Cross Society’s Convalescent Home.The organization welcomes donations by Companies and/or Individuals and can be contacted at telephone number 225-7120 and the Headquarters on telephone number 227-1116.And the staff of the CRCU went out during the Easter season to interact with children of the Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre (RCAC).? The young ones participated in a colouring competition and later played games of their choice,holesale NFL Jerseys, before being presented with kites.The RCAC is financed mainly by donations from companies and individuals and appeals contributions in either cash or kind. The Centre can be contacted on telephone number 227-3092 or via e-mail at [email protected]