Attorney General, Basil Williams last week donated a fully equipped conference table to the Secretariat of the Caribbean Action Task Force during a visit to the entity’s headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Williams said the work of the secretariat in coordinating efforts against money laundering and the financing of terrorism is critical to all states in the region and the conference table will help it during meetings and other activities. “CFATF is very important and given Guyana’s determined efforts to fight the scourge of money laundering it is a body that we will continue to support and embrace, “Williams said during the handing over of the table.

Executive Director of CFATF, Dawn Spicer thanked Williams for the donation and assured him that the secretariat will take good care of the facility. Williams had committed to donating the conference table during his tenure as chairman of the regional body.

The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force is an organisation of twenty-five states of the Caribbean Basin, Central and South America, which have agreed to implement common countermeasures to address money laundering. It was established as a result of meetings convened in Aruba in May 1990 and Jamaica in November 1992. The main objective of the CFATF is to achieve effective implementation of, and compliance with, the FATF recommendations to prevent and control money laundering and to counter the financing of terrorism and proliferation of weapons. The Secretariat has been established as a mechanism to monitor and encourage progress to ensure full implementation of the Kingston Ministerial Declaration and is presently hosted by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

Photographs show AG, Williams, Ms Spicer and other staff of the secretariat posing next to the table.