{"id":56894,"date":"2016-04-07T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selasite.azurewebsites.net\/pm-browne-heads-delegation-to-us-caricom-correspondent-banking-talks\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:22:35","slug":"pm-browne-heads-delegation-to-us-caricom-correspondent-banking-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/pm-browne-heads-delegation-to-us-caricom-correspondent-banking-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Browne heads delegation to US\/CARICOM correspondent banking talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Preventing the loss of Correspondent Banking Relations (CBR) remains a top agenda item for the government of Antigua and Barbuda and the rest of the Region as a delegation peruses the matter during consultations between Caribbean and US authorities in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI intend to forcefully put forward CARICOM\u2019s position on this matter to the US authorities because I believe we are being treated unfairly\u201d.\u00a0Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Hon. Gaston Browne.<\/p>\n<p>  The delegation, led by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Gaston Browne, is currently at the consultation in Jamaica, dubbed Caribbean Public Private Dialogue on CBR.<span style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>The meeting will attract representatives from several Caribbean nations and will allow Regional banks to discuss the controls desired of them with US authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Browne\u2019s statements on the consultation were circulated in a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI intend to forcefully put forward CARICOM\u2019s position on this matter to the US authorities because I believe we are being treated unfairly,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been labelled as tax havens and accused of lax tax regimes and avenues for money laundering and terrorism financing, yet there is absolutely no evidence to support these allegations \u2026 In all instances where banks and financial institutions have to pay penalties on such matters, not one CARICOM nation has ever been involved. This cannot be right \u2013 it cannot be just.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Browne heads delegation to US\/CARICOM correspondent banking talks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boletines-regionales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmtsolutions.net\/sela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}