According to the CAFT/GAFIC Antigua & Barbuda Ministerial Report dated 23 June 2008, entitled "Mutual Evaluation/Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism", the Attorney General is the competent person responsible for coordinating requests from overseas regulators and enforcement agencies. It further states:

A vital piece of legislation put forward by Republican Congressman Andy Barr is sweeping through the legislative process of the United States almost unnoticed. It quickly achieved Congressional support...

Antigua & Barbuda’s application for entry onto the UK’s extremely valuable White List was rejected in 2007.

So, The World Bank’s Doing Business 2013 has demoted Antigua and Barbuda’s ranking from its 2012 standing of 57 to a new low of 63.

When a state passes a law that allows an independent body to become above its national and constitutional control it is a time for concern.

Antigua's Director of Gaming, Kaye McDonald has announced that Leroy King, longstanding CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission has been sent on 55 days leave following the collapse of Stanford's global empire.

Having hounded and driven out the editors of Caribarena.com amid death threats, cyber-attacks and intimidation, and having jailed the internationally recognised local journalist Ian "Magic" Hughes on trumped up charges, ...

After sixteen months of power, The Government of Antigua & Barbuda, led by the United Progressive Party under the stewardship of the Honourable Baldwin Spencer, has once again sent mixed signals on its adoption of international good practice with regard to foreign direct investment.

It has happened again. A Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda is once again proposing to balance the deficit of the nation’s economy by the sale of 110 acres of the Half Moon Bay Resort property.

"FORBES" enjoys an excellent reputation for investment reporting and forecasting that has earned it respect around the globe.

As regulators in the Caribbean and Latin America scramble to cope with the shock announcements that powerful United States Authorities are investigating a significant financial institution with a major presence in the region, are they fit for purpose?

Fourteen years ago, Douglas W. Payne of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of "Storm Watch: Democracy in the Caribbean", publicly exposed the "Failings of Governance in Antigua & Barbuda".

It would be quite inconvenient for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda if the local press were to report the granting of economic citizenship to a criminal figure or a fugitive from justice, thereby bringing shame on the country's "good name".

Dr. Errol Cort, Minister of Finance, has announced once again that Treasury Bills issued by the Government of Antigua & Barbuda have been highly successful.

It has been announced that Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, a member of the New World Development Limited, a Hong Kong based conglomerate, has joined Replay Resorts Development Inc. as the new saviour of Half Moon Bay in Antigua.

In a recent address to the people who elected him to office approximately 100 days ago, the new Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, the Honourable Gaston Browne, indicated that it is his intention of leading his country into becoming "an economic powerhouse" in the Caribbean.

When Douglas Payne of the US-based Center For Strategic International Studies, researched his Report into the Failings of Governance in Antigua and Barbuda as long ago as 1999, he must have wished like many of his readers that his genuine academic work would have raised awareness of the damage being done to the country’s economy, standing and reputation.

As Antigua & Barbuda slips further into totalitarian barbarism, free speech has become the next target of a government.

Despite the protestations from Dr. Errol Cort, personal attorney for R. Allen Stanford on Antigua, former Attorney General and former Finance Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, former World Bank signatory, current unseated representative and present Minister of National Security, the latest Financial Regulator in Antigua has been summarily sacked.

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