Economic developments and outlook This year has been an extremely difficult one for many people and businesses. But we have now turned the corner and a recovery is underway. Since we last met, the economic news has, on balance, been better than we were expecting.
Such collaboration among the country’s three financial regulators is also a further step in supporting our efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing. According to a 2007 Joint Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank several factors heighten the Caribbean region’s vulnerability to crime and violence.