These international treaties are to do with tackling corruption, bribery and the financing of terrorism and of organised crime (the United Nations Convention Against

Corruption (UNCAC); the Organisation for Economic Control and Development's Anti Bribery Convention; the UN's Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of

Terrorism (UNSFT); and the UN's Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC)).

• UNTOC and UNSFT have been extended to Bermuda.

• The UK's Home Office is conducting a 'compliancy review' of transposition tables for UNSFT and UNTOC submitted by the Turks and Caicos Islands.

• The Home Office has provided comments to Anguilla on its compliance with its obligations under UNSFT and is working out whether Anguilla’s legislation fulfils its

• obligations under UNTOC.

• The Cayman Islands have declared that they are compliant with UNCAC in an independent consultant’s report, which nonetheless notes that there are some areas where

• further work is required. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development are consulting various parties "to see how this can be

• resolved," which suggests that they do not totally believe the islands' claims.

• A consultant’s report has identified areas where the Turks and Caicos Islands have not yet met the criteria for "extension to UNCAC and OECD Anti-Bribery."

• The Department for International Development is in the process of identifying a suitable consultant and will fund Montserrat's UNCAC and OECD Anti-Bribery 'compliancy review.'

• The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, meanwhile, is funding 2-day anti-bribery workshops to be held in Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands in February 2015. The Ministry of Justice will organise them.