Government has dismissed the submissions of Professor Clive Thomas,Chris Chelios Jersey, to the Special Select Committee on the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism as nothing more than a thesis on the subject.This is according to Chairperson of the Committee,Custom Philadelphia 76ers Jerseys, Government’s Chief Whip, Gail Teixeira.She was this past week updating the media on the work of the committee and said that while Government would have been pushing for more meetings the date settled on will be next Wednesday.According to Teixeira at that meeting the members will not be dealing with the actual Bill but will in fact be taking oral presentations from stakeholders including Professor Thomas, Financial Analyst Christopher Ram and the Bankers Association.She noted that all of the stakeholders had made written presentations during the first select committee.Teixeira told media operatives that while Professor Thomas gave a lot of documentation, “It is a thesis on money laundering…We are not here to debate money laundering,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, we are here to deal with the Bill to strengthen Guyana’s capacity to fight money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.”“A number of organizations wrote us but didn’t make any suggestion on amendments but just made general comments about money laundering,” said Teixeira.Despite the written presentations she said the Opposition insisted that the organizations and persons be invited to address the committee.According to Teixeira, to date “not one amendment has been tabled or submitted or circulated to the committee saying these are the parts of the bill we want to amend.”Teixeira in lamenting the frequency of the meetings noted that there are only two weeks remaining for it to be taken by to the House for a vote and cautioned that more than likely Guyana will be hauled before the International Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) having already missed three deadlines by CFAFT and being blacklisted by that body.Teixeira noted that before the end of the year there could very well be even more amendments to the Bill and added that given the nature of the legislation it will be amended at least once every two years if not more.“As you get into more technology and cyber crime and a whole range of other areas this is a particular Bill that will keep be returning to the House.”Teixeira,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, who was elected as Chairperson of the Committee during the break in Parliament on Thursday,Custom Utah Jazz Jerseys, told media operatives that the Committee met on Monday last for the first time after the election “and regrettably it seems to be the same ole, same ole.”She had opined that there seems to be no urgency on the part of the opposition to address the issues in the Bill.“We have proposed in committee that the media be invited to sit in on the meetings of the committee so that we have observers of the committee, the opposition appears to be very iffy on it and said that they have to go back and get clearance from their mentors,Philadelphia 76ers Jerseys,” said Teixeira.“We felt very strongly that because of what happened with the first Bill and the urgency of getting this Bill through because FATF? will be meeting on February 13 and we are quite certain that Guyana will be reviewed, whether we like it or not.”She noted that FATF does not have to wait for CFATF to review Guyana.Teixeira said that Guyana has missed deadlines in May, August and November last year, FATF can automatically proceed to review the country on February 13.Teixeira said that in the interest of transparency and accountability Government felt that the presence of the media and the presence of other stakeholders in the committee as observers would allow the story of what transpires to be publicized.“The opposition had deep concerns about the presence of the media.”