UK promises to include VI, other OTs in future Intl trade-agreements
This after the fallout experienced as a result of the approved and royally sanctioned, Sanctions and Money Laundering Bill (S/AML).
News of the UK Minister’s commitment comes at the conclusion of bilateral talks held in London where Deputy Premier, Dr the Honourable, Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) spearheaded a Virgin Islands (VI) delegation.
Force Implementation
According to a Government Information Service (GIS) statement issued on June 15, 2018, Hon Pickering joined OT Leaders in expressing their discontent with the UK decision.
"The BVI supports the OTs' position that the UK overreached in the case of public registers and like other OTs, will challenge this attempt to force implementation in the territory," the Deputy Premier said.
The London meetings—Joint Ministerial Council: ‘Exiting the EU Negotiations’—included a special session on the UK-OT constitutional relationship in which the Overseas Territories challenged the UK Government’s position that the UK Parliament could legislate for the territories as it wished.
This was done in the case of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 that requires the OTs to adopt a public register before it is a global standard, but exempts the Crown Dependencies.
Hon Pickering was accompanied by acting Permanent Secretary in the Premier’s Office, Ms Dawn J. Smith and Director of the British Virgin Islands’ (BVI) London Office, Mr E. Benito Wheatley.
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this time anyway? pure crap. emaciated slaves of some underground alien who's flying saucer crashed in
the british isles thousands of years ago. declared itself emperor of earth. probably wanted by the intergalactic
patrol.