Caribbean Report 13-03-1991

Abstract

An update is provided in this report on the political situation in Antigua and Barbuda where seven rebel MPs have written the Prime Minister to resign due to his poor leadership. Antigua’s Leader of the Opposition United National Democratic Party (UNDP), believes that the Prime Minister has succeeded in the challenge against his son and six other rebel MPs who have asked him to resign. There is an unprecedented move in Haiti where six soldiers have been arrested and an army platoon has been confined to barracks. The West Indian Commission continued its consultation with the people in the Caribbean and held a recent session in Jamaica. The Jamaican government has broken its silence on the death penalty and maintains that it would not be abolished in the country. The BVI seeks British aid in order to lengthen the BVI’s airport runway which would facilitate flights from Miami and New York and also accommodate direct flights into the BVI.