BIBI SHABENA ALI has been appointed Chairperson of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams.

Prior to her appointment, Ali was the Legal and Compliance Manager of Demerara Bank Limited, a post she had held since 2014. During the period 2012 to 2014, she served as Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and acted in the position of Registrar at that court for three years. She has also served respectively as Assistant Company Secretary and Company Secretary of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc., from 2005 to 2009; and was a Legal/Administrative Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture.

The newly-appointed chairperson held her inaugural board meeting on Friday in the Boardroom of the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

In her current post, Ali’s duties include monitoring compliance with the financial institution’s Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) programme; training staff at all levels in the area of AML/CFT; and liaising with the Bank of Guyana (BoG), the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Special Organised Crimes Unit on matters pertaining to AML/CFT.

By virtue of her new post, the new chairperson of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority becomes an ex-officio member of the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Authority in Guyana.