Caribbean Report 21-02-1995

Abstract

In the British Virgin Islands, Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt's party will again form the government after wooing the support of an independent. The UK-based charity organization Oxfam has confirmed that children in the Dominican Republic agricultural sector have been working with banned pesticides. Oxfam Regional Representative Josefina Stubbs responds to why this practice has been allowed to continue. Female activists within Britain's Opposition Labour Party are lobbying for more black women to become Members of Parliament. Debbie Ransome talks to some powerful female figures on the British political scene. A UWI study conducted by Dr. Everold Hosein, Coordinator of the UWI Caribbean Population and Family Health Programme claims that Caribbean men are poor lovers and lack adequate sexual skills. Caribbean Report headed across the region to get Caribbean men's reactions to the study's assertions.