Caribbean Report 23-01-1992

Abstract

Trinidad's debts and plans for the flow of currency with investments encouraged by the Minister of Finance, is reported on. There are reports on the move towards trade between the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the United States stance on the trade embargo and reactions from Haitian parliamentarians. There is a segment on the decline of the world price of alumina, and the opposing views of a London based commodity analysts and Dr. Carlton Davis of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute, is aired. The British West Indian Airways (B.W.I.A.) plans to accrue profits in the coming year after years of cash flow losses, while there are debates on the writing off of debts owed to Britain by the British Virgin Islands. There are reports on the International criticism towards Cuba on the death penanlty imposed on a Cuban exile and reactions to this criticism in Cuba's official newspapers; while Haitians are picked up from overlaoded boats in Internationsl waters by the United States Coast guards.