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By Sir Ronald SandersIn January, coincidental to my assuming the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS), I met,Wholesale Jerseys For Sale, in Washington DC, the Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, who had just taken on the responsibility of Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government.Mr Barrow was in DC to meet US government Treasury officials, and regulatory bodies to explore what could be done to stop the destructive course on which US banks had embarked, of cutting-off correspondent banking relations (CBR’s) with banks in Belize.??At the time US banks had severed relations with the majority of banks in Belize, creating high costs for every international transaction.??Banks had to seek correspondent relations with countries as distant as Turkey and China in order to clear payments for goods and services between the US and Belize.The situation in Belize at the time, while dire and urgent, was not unique in the Caribbean.??Indeed,Wholesale China Jerseys, no county was immune; all were affected.He and I agreed then that, as President of the OAS Permanent Council, I would convene a meeting to ventilate this issue before high representatives of the 34 states of the Americas.??The objective would be to expose the adverse effect on the financial services sector and the economies of Caribbean countries, as a consequence of unfair practices in certain powerful member nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Incidentally, the convening power of the OAS is one of its few real strengths.?It does have the capacity to bring its 34 member states to the same table for discussion, even though its practice of decision-making by consensus allows the more powerful countries to influence or block decisions.?But, were it not for the OAS, there would be no other forum for a gathering of governments of the Americas to at least raise awareness of issues that materially affect the lives of their peoples.On March 30th,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, the last day of my three-month stint as President of the Council, a meeting was held to look at what was euphemistically described as “Finance and Banking Services Challenges to Development in the Americas”.??For the meeting, I assembled four experts on the issue to inform the Ambassadors,Brian Urlacher Bears Jersey, including those from countries in which correspondent banks are located, on the reality of the situation.The experts were:?Ryan Pinder, a former Financial Services Minister in the Bahamian government and partner in the legal firm of Graham Thornton;?Dr. Farah Diva Urrutia, Director General for Legal Affairs and Treaties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama; Tax treaty expert Dr Bruce Zagaris, partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe LLP; and Dr Daniel Mitchell, senior fellow with CATO Institute, who has been a long term advocate against unfair practices in the global financial sector.Each of them made powerful, compelling and irresistible presentations (which can be made available to anyone who contacts me).??They left no doubt in the minds of the Ambassadors that all of the countries in the Caribbean and several in Central America are being unfairly targeted as “high risk areas” for financial services, and that cutting off CBR’s has little to do with the risk of money laundering and terrorism financing, and much more to do with the smallness of the rewards global banks receive from doing business with Caribbean banks when those small rewards are measured against possible huge penalties with which they are threatened by regulatory bodies.In this regard, it was a highly successful meeting – a part of the work of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, who is charged by other CARICOM Heads of Government to lead on this issue.As Chair of the three-hour meeting I was at pains to point out that while the problem is urgent for the Caribbean, no Central and South American country is immune from its reach. I called it a “creeping cancer that must be surgically terminated”.Significant facts and figures were provided by the experts.??For instance, five banks in Belize have had CBR’s terminated in the US; two domestic commercial banks and four international banks in the Bahamas have been directly impacted by the loss of CBRs; eight domestic financial institutions in Barbados have had accounts terminated primarily by Canadian and US correspondent banks; in Jamaica, correspondent banks in the UK, the US and Canada have terminated or imposed restrictions; and in the OECS countries and Guyana, CBRs with major US banks have been terminated or notice given of such termination.The unf