Caribbean Report 03-03-1989

Abstract

The government of the Bahamas reacts strongly to a U.S. State Department report which says too much cocaine is passing through the islands. The report on Narcotics production expresses concern at the extent of trafficking and consumption in the Bahamas and says that corruption still exists. Montserrat wins its battle against the British government for free treatment of citizens with life threatening illnesses. The Foreign Office has agreed to allow some twenty cases a year to be treated in Britain from Montserrat, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands. Britain's Black Society of Lawyers has written to the Lord Chancellor demanding the resignation of Sir James Miskin, most senior judge in London for racist remarks. The Lord Chancellor spoke at a conference organised by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders on the theme "Race and criminal justice" in London. The report concludes with a review of what the British press has been saying of interest to the Caribbean