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Today was nomination day for the 2007 General Elections. All 39 candidates for the Progressive Liberal Party submitted their declarations and the $400 deposit, making their candidacy official.

Our leader, the Rt. Hon. Perry Gladstone Christie marched from his Quackoo Street constituency office, surrounded by almost a thousand supporters to the Centerville Primary School where he submitted his documents at 11:30 AM.

Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia "Mother" Pratt filed her papers at the Ridgeland Primary School.


Both of our leaders wil be traveling this evening for Family Island campaign engagements. "Mother" Pratt will be in North Abaco to launch the campaign of PLP candidate, Fritz Bootle, during a prayer breakfast at the Full Gospel Church in Treasure Cay. At this time, "Mother" Pratt and Bootle will announce the launch of the S. C. Bootle Scholarship Fund for deserving students in the North Abaco constituency to attend The College of The Bahamas.

The Prime Minister will be in North Andros with our Andros candidates at the launch of the North Andros campaign offices of Vincent Peet. Prime Minister Christie will be the keynote speaker for the rally, which can be seen live on this site.







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G-2-0 AND OFFSHORE FINANCIAL CENTRES: FREE TRADE OR PROTECTIONIST ATTACK BY G-20 MEMBER ON-SHORE FINANCIAL CENTRES? - A CALL FOR REFORM OF GLOBAL REGULATION OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING"

 

 ALFRED M. SEARS, ESQ.

MANAGING PARTNER OF SEARS & CO. AND FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE BAHAMAS AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE (CFATF)

 

PART 1

These twelve (12) articles are intended to encourage public conversation about the appropriateness of having ad-hoc organizations, such as the FATF and the OECD/Financial Stability Board, which are controlled by G-20 member countries with competing onshore financial centres to protect, make the rules on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing and apply punitive countermeasures against competing offshore financial centres.  Most of the offshore financial centres, which were black listed in 2000 by the FATF, OECD/Financial Stability Board and the United States, are once again under assault.  The Bahamas' financial services sector is once again facing a clear and present danger when in April 2009 it was grey listed by the OECD/Financial Stability Board, an organization in which The Bahamas is neither a member nor has a vote.  Using The Bahamas as a case study, I will examine the response of offshore financial centres to the punitive counter-measures taken against them by of these ad-hoc organizations.  I will conclude by making a number of recommendations to ensure equality of treatment between offshore financial centres and onshore financial centres and provide a more legitimate and effective global regulatory framework to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism.