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Jamaica Kincaid arrived in America when she was only 17, leaving behind her native country of Antigua, her family and her christened name, Elaine Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s heritage and poetic style, coupled with the heavily autobiographical content of her work, have established her greatness in contemporary writing. She preserves the outsider’s perspective on her homeland of Antigua and the equally foreign landscape of America, at times juxtaposing both to catch a glimpse of a universal human nature...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
Your report "Banking On Secrecy" referred to "offshore financial centers like...Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization." But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Financial Action Task Force has found that Antigua and Barbuda is cooperating fully in the fight against money laundering. The governments of the U.S. and Britain agree, removing advisories that had been placed on Antigua and Barbuda...
After the atrocities of Sept. 11, our government did not wait for a request from the U.S. to check bank accounts for identified terrorist organizations and persons. Our financial-intelligence unit conducted a search and exchanged information with U.S. authorities. You misrepresented Antigua and Barbuda and ignored the acknowledged role we have played in combatting financial crime. LIONEL A. HURST, AMBASSADOR Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda Washington...
...join a global crackdown on criminal and terrorist money havens earlier this year. Thirty industrial nations were ready to tighten the screws on offshore financial centers like Liechtenstein and Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. Then the Bush Administration took office...