Caribbean Report 16-01-1992

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Initial segments highlight the plans for the tour of the West Indies by the South African cricket team and of the planned West Indies cricket team's tour of South Africa. Further reports inform on the plans to restore Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to office and of the screening of Haitian refugees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There is also news on the death sentences imposed on three men charged in Cuba for terrorist activities and of the upholding of two of the sentences by the Supreme Court. The final segments inform on documents relating to the Presidential Amnesty linked to the attempted coup in Trinidad and of the regular absences from office of the Jamaican Prime Minister even with his lack of apointment of a deputy prime Minister.

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)
2. Report on plans for the South African cricket team's tour of the West Indies (00:36-01:05)
3. Interview with Clyde Walcott, West Indies Cricket Board President, on his trip to Johannesburg and of the South African tour of the West Indies (01:06-03:45)
4. Report on the plan by the OAS to return Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the Presidency (03:46-04:04)
5. Michael Norton reports from Port-au-Prince on the planned restoration of Aristide to office (04:05-06:02)
6. Report on screening of Haitian refugees held at Guantanamo Bay In Cuba (06:03-06:52)
7. Rolande Dorancy, Executive Director of the Haitian Refugee Center speak on her visit to the bases (06:53-07:23)
8. Report on Haiti continues (07:24-07:34)
9. Report on the upholding of the death sentence on two of the three men charged with terrorism by the Cuban Supreme Court (07:35-07:56)
10. Lionel Martin reports from Cuba on the upholding of the death sentence (07:57-10:20)
11. Report on the call by human rights groups to save the lives of the condemned men (10:21-10:36)
12. Report on the filing in the High Court of documents on the Presidential Amnesty linked to the attempted coup in Trinidad and Tobago (10:37-11:01)
13. Tony Fraser reports on the documents being filed (11:02-12:19)
14. Report on the absense of the Jamaican Prime Minister in office due to a case of gastrointeritis (12:20-12:39)
15. Gary Allen reports from Kingston on the decision of the Prime Minister of not appointing a Deputy to manage the affairs of the office of the Prime Minister when it is vacant for extended periods (12:40-14:14)
16. Mike Jarvis summarises and ends report (14:15-14:50)

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