Anti-Money Laundering Legislation…Opposition ignoring the voices of the masses - PPP

Anti-Money Laundering Legislation…Opposition ignoring the voices of the masses – PPP

Mar 26, 2014 News

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has cast blame for the non-passage of the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill (AML/CFT) squarely at the feet of the opposition parties and has expressed that their actions are affecting the people of Guyana.
The PPP said that it has for some time now been conducting consultations across Guyana where its members met with residents and had discussions over the ramifications that the non-passage of that Bill would have on Guyana.
The party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee in a public missive related some of those concerns and frustrations stemming from those meetings which he outlined that residents related.
According to Rohee, their engagements demonstrated how well Guyanese understand the issue at hand and that “they are well aware of the dire consequences that the non-passage of this Bill will bring to their lives and to the economy of our country. We saw our people speak directly to the Opposition, many of whom who would have voted for them, calling upon them to support this Bill; and informing them that they were placed in the Parliament upon the people’s vote, to act in their best interest, and not to play puerile political games and using the people’s vote to blackmail them.”
Rohee outlined that it was “revealing to hear the problems and difficulties that the people themselves explained they were already encountering” and the “suffering they predict they will have to endure, if this Bill is not passed.” He related that a woman from Anna Regina in Essequibo “explained the delay she faced to bury her dead husband because a remittance sent to cover funeral expenses was delayed at the money transfer agency.”
He further said that “a gentleman from Greenwich Park, who claimed he voted for APNU [A Partnership for National Unity], asked Mr. David Granger directly on camera, why is it that he wants to punish his supporters. A resident of Bartica voiced the opinion that hundreds of Barticians will become criminals and their cash and gold seized, if the Opposition’s amendments are enacted.”
According to Rohee, the people of Linden expressed fear that the foreign investors in the Bauxite industry will close operations and Region 10 residents will return to a state of joblessness, if this Bill is not passed.
“The residents of Lusignan and Mahaica demanded mass protests and fresh elections” Rohee said.
He then articulated that “the people of New Amsterdam, many of whom voted for the Opposition, called for the madness to end and the Bill to be passed. A young man from Albouystown articulated great consternation, at the International Convention Centre, with the constant obstructionist approach of the Opposition on matters of national interest.”
Additionally, Rohee made mention of the rice farmers, who he said asked “how do the Opposition Parliamentarians expect us to acquire fertilizer, machinery and spares when all these can only be obtained from overseas and the non-passage of this Bill will stifle international trade between Guyana and every other country in the hemisphere?”
APNU had previously said that the government should be in consultation with the coalition’s representatives in the Select Committee as opposed to going around the country spreading propaganda; as such APNU had refused to take part in the recent AML consultations held at the Convention Centre.
Consultations over the AML/CFT Bill with the opposition and government are scheduled to resume in the Parliamentary Select Committee today.

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