In a ma­jor push for deep­er eco­nom­ic ties and stronger an­ti-mon­ey laun­der­ing frame­works across the re­gion, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie SC met with Cay­man Is­lands Pre­mier An­dré Ebanks on Tues­day.

The high-lev­el meet­ing took place dur­ing Ebanks’ of­fi­cial diplo­mat­ic vis­it to Port of Spain, where he is at­tend­ing the Caribbean Fi­nan­cial Ac­tion Task Force (CFATF) 62nd Ple­nary and Work­ing Group Meet­ings. He was joined by Sean Whewell, an in­ter­na­tion­al af­fairs an­a­lyst from the Cay­man Is­lands Cab­i­net Of­fice.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, the dis­cus­sions cen­tered heav­i­ly on un­lock­ing new bi­lat­er­al trade op­por­tu­ni­ties be­tween the two ter­ri­to­ries. While Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains a man­u­fac­tur­ing and en­er­gy pow­er­house with­in Cari­com, the Cay­man Is­lands stands as one of the world's lead­ing fi­nan­cial ser­vices hubs. Of­fi­cials from both ju­ris­dic­tions not­ed that bridg­ing these unique eco­nom­ic strengths could pave the way for more ro­bust re­gion­al trade chan­nels.