BREAK UP OF NETHERLANDS ANTILLES WILL POSE TOUGH CHALLENGE ON FIGHTING CARIBBEAN MONEY LAUNDERING
November 1st, 2007
BY SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, and KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR shake up is looming in the political organisation of the Caribbean, with the impending dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles federation, and the creation of separate political units for its composite islands Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius (Statia). The switch has piqued the interest of anti-money laundering practitioners, because with the islands due to split next December (2008), there is a big ...
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