this would be an inexpensive way of getting the information across to people who mattered and would help to warn off drugs barons by showing them that the DTs were prepared for them.
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Mr Ezzard Miller (Cayman) regretted the fact that the Cayman were frequently blamed for money laundering. But more money was laundered in the US in one day than in the rest of the world in a year. By the time the money reached Cayman it was usually clean. And Cayman had done a lot to tighten up against money laundering. Cayman would be prepared to host a regional conference if the FCO and perhaps the Commonwealth Secretariat could help with the cost. This idea had emerged at the Kingston Governors' Conference and he had discussed it with Mr Scott. The need to share information was vital if we were to beat international crime.
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Mr Eric Reid (Anguilla) agreed with Mr Jeffers' idea of workshops. Anguilla had been organising its own seminars domestically to educate people about drugs. He thanked HMG for the customs launch which had already proved its worth.
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Summing up, Mr Sainsbury said we would certainly explore Vernon Jeffers' workshop idea. He took the point about misrepresentation about Cayman as a money laundering centre: he
always tried to correct that impression with America and other interlocutors. More generally, he welcomed the universal recognition of the need to cooperate and looked forward to concrete results from the forthcoming conference.
Various Ministers made other points individually to Mr Sainsbury as follows:
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Vernon Jeffers complained about the delay to a Keele University report on Montserrat's hospital.
Vernon Jeffers also told Mr Sainsbury that Montserrat would be prepared to take fifty Hong Kong families on the same basis as the UK was now proposing to do. (Presumably he was referring to the terms of the recently announced Hong Kong Bill). He also thought that other Caribbean DTs would be prepared to respond in the same way. You will wish to pursue this with Hong Kong Department.
Quinton Edness stressed how much Bermuda would like another Ministerial visit. Mr Sainsbury wonders whether he may be able to stop over briefly in Bermdua if he goes to the US in late May.
Both Quinton Edness and Vernon Jeffers hinted strongly that they wanted to discuss constitutional matters with the
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