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The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sup­port­ed the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (FATF Com­pli­ance) Bill, 2025, and the Counter-Pro­lif­er­a­tion Fi­nanc­ing Bill, 2025, in the Sen­ate on Fri­day night, af­ter pre­vi­ous­ly ab­stain­ing in the Low­er House ear­li­er this month.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­my pledged the es­tab­lish­ment of an over­sight com­mit­tee as the Sen­ate unan­i­mous­ly ap­proved the bills. “I took a note on the point that there is a need for us to de­vel­op some sort of work­ing group to over­see this leg­is­la­tion. Of course, you know that I don’t prac­tice on the crim­i­nal side, so my ex­pe­ri­ence would be on the civ­il side. But we have prob­lems on the civ­il side as well. I am go­ing to com­mit again to this house this evening to do some­thing about the rules and the leg­is­la­tion and about set­ting up an over­sight com­mit­tee to deal with the prob­lems as they arise,” Je­re­my said.

He al­so com­mend­ed the tone of the de­bate. “Mr Pres­i­dent, I want to thank each and every one of the mem­bers of the Sen­ate this evening for what has been an un­char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly civ­il and pro­duc­tive de­bate. Now, when I say ‘each and every mem­ber of the Sen­ate’, what I al­ways mean is the in­de­pen­dent bench ex­clud­ed, be­cause the in­de­pen­dent bench is by de­f­i­n­i­tion civ­il. It is my col­leagues’ op­po­site who some­times en­gage in com­bat. There was no com­bat this af­ter­noon.”