Premier Andrew Fahie of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a semi-autonomous dependency of Britain, went to Miami late last month to close a drug deal with Mexican traffickers, supposedly from the powerful Sinaloa cartel.
Somehow, the image of placing BVI's financial affairs under the purview of London -- especially Boris Johnson's London -- does not reassure me about financial transparency and the banning of thugs and bandits from laundering ill-gotten gains there.
Somehow, the image of placing BVI's financial affairs under the purview of London -- especially Boris Johnson's London -- does not reassure me about financial transparency and the banning of thugs and bandits from laundering ill-gotten gains there.