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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.”
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