Sparks and strong language were traded at last Wednesday’s parliamentary sitting, as the opposition’sAttorney General,Basil Williamsefforts to get the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financial Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill 2016 sent to a special select committee failed and the amended bill passed.People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member of Parliament, Anil Nandlall, however made it clear that Guyana cannot become compliant without a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).Moreover, he added that as the deadline for the submission of the Act for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) review later this month had already passed- the Bill ought to have been put eight weeks prior.“There is no great urgency to push this Bill through (now)! (Attorney General Basil Williams) knew of this Bill since November. As my honourable colleague Gail Teixeira said,Wholesale Jerseys, (they) made a collective decision to adjourn parliament.”“And the deadline, sir, has long gone.? If it is going to the May summit, it ought to have been submitted at least eight weeks before,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, in March. He thinks that he is speaking to novices. We have been through this process!”Nandlall, Williams’s predecessor as Attorney General, emphasized that the Bill is reviewed through a peer mutual evaluation basis,Wholesale Jerseys China, whereby a copy of the Bill is sent to each country to be evaluated by the governments there.“Nobody is going to read this,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys,” Nandlall argued. “We are only violating our parliamentary norms, suspending standing orders and going through this ordeal (in) a time wasting exercise. The agenda for that meeting is already fixed!”“This Bill will be sent to countries who will be evaluating Guyana. Which Attorney General will put his (or her)Former AG,Anil Nandlallschedule on hold to read some Bill that comes three days before the summit? Nobody!”“So the whole argument which we have been confronted with about urgency,jerseys cheap nfl, don’t fall for it,’ he added. “It is a fictional argument, misleading the Cabinet.”Opposition Chief Whip, Gail Texieira had objected to the government suspending the Standing Orders of the House in order to pass AML/CFT Bill.Teixeira had emphasized that it is the ninth time the Leader of the House, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, had sought to suspend the Standing Orders for the said purpose.“We have spoken against this practice by the government,” Teixeira had said. “The Standing Orders indeed allow for one to go through the first, second and third reading of a Bill but it is not for the Government to (rush) through the process.”She stated that since the Prime Minister failed to justify the suspension of the Standing Orders this time around, then she is left to speculate that the government is rushing because Guyana is up for review later this month by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).“But if Guyana was coming up for such a review then why did we not have a meeting in eight weeks? Aside from all the travelling that had to be done by Members of the House, there were 17 free days during our break that we could have met…Everything now is a rush, rush,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, rush.”She had insisted that such a complex Bill ought to have gone through a Special Select Committee. Though Williams acknowledged that the select committee was there for complex bills, he disputed that the amendments were actually complex.