Anne Bruce: Painter

The main objective of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force is to achieve effective implementation of and compliance with its recommendations to prevent and control money laundering and to combat the financing of terrorism. The Secretariat has been established as a mechanism to monitor and encourage progress to ensure full implementation of the Kingston Ministerial Declaration.

Currently, CFATF members are Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados , Belize , Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands, Costa Rica , Dominica , Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Grenada , Guatemala , Guyana , Republic of Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Montserrat, The Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua , Panama , St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia , St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Suriname , The Turks & Caicos Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, and Venezuela .

Representatives of the Governments of Canada, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, France, The United Kingdom, and the United States of America (the "Cooperating and Supporting Nations"), meeting together in San Jose, Costa Rica, 9-10 October, 1996, considered the work of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (the "CFATF") since 1990, the benefits of effective implementation of mechanisms to prevent and control money laundering, and the need for expertise and training, and cooperation among Nations to assure such implementation in the Caribbean region.

The Cooperating and Supporting Nations are members of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (the "FATF") and as such are committed to the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and to the implementation of the 40 FATF Recommendations concerning anti-money laundering measures.