Caribbean Report 21-03-2002
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2002-03-21
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)
2. Haiti’s new Prime Minister Yvon Neptune says he would include opposition figures in his new administration if this helps resolve the country’s political stalemate, but the opposition Democratic Convergence rejects the offer, calling the government a de facto administration. Rosie Hayes interviews Opposition Spokesman Dr. Ariel Henry (00:25-03:10)
3. A strike by bus drivers in Grenada leaves hundreds of commuters stranded. Following a three-hour meeting between the Minister for Public Utilities, Mr. Bowen and the Executive of the National Bus Association, the drivers initiate their own action as government is set to introduce new regulations to govern them. One bus operator explains the reason for their action and Lou Smith reports (03:11-05:15)
4. Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, takes a swipe at the politically related violence plaguing Jamaican society during his six-day visit to the island and expresses concern about the spate of blood-letting associated with Jamaican elections. Ken Richards reports (05:16-07:33)
5. (07:35-07:38 - No audio) Up to 5 companies have applied for a telecommunications licence in the sub-region and their eventual entry into the telecoms market will break the monopoly held by Cable and Wireless. The Chairman of Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL), Eliud Williams, says a recent ministerial meeting in Saint Kitts helped advance the process (07:34-10:03)
6. At a conference in London, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, urges farmers in the Caribbean to go organic. Atherton Martin, attendee and former Agriculture Minister in Dominica now President of the Caribbean Conservation Association, says the matter of change in the banana industry is a key factor at the conference (10:04-13:22)
7. Health officials in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have launched a big campaign to immunise children against an outbreak of Polio as two children die in an outbreak, the first in the Americas for a decade. Bertram Niles examines what caused it and Olen Kew of the Center for Disease Control explains further (13:23-15:29)
2. Haiti’s new Prime Minister Yvon Neptune says he would include opposition figures in his new administration if this helps resolve the country’s political stalemate, but the opposition Democratic Convergence rejects the offer, calling the government a de facto administration. Rosie Hayes interviews Opposition Spokesman Dr. Ariel Henry (00:25-03:10)
3. A strike by bus drivers in Grenada leaves hundreds of commuters stranded. Following a three-hour meeting between the Minister for Public Utilities, Mr. Bowen and the Executive of the National Bus Association, the drivers initiate their own action as government is set to introduce new regulations to govern them. One bus operator explains the reason for their action and Lou Smith reports (03:11-05:15)
4. Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, takes a swipe at the politically related violence plaguing Jamaican society during his six-day visit to the island and expresses concern about the spate of blood-letting associated with Jamaican elections. Ken Richards reports (05:16-07:33)
5. (07:35-07:38 - No audio) Up to 5 companies have applied for a telecommunications licence in the sub-region and their eventual entry into the telecoms market will break the monopoly held by Cable and Wireless. The Chairman of Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL), Eliud Williams, says a recent ministerial meeting in Saint Kitts helped advance the process (07:34-10:03)
6. At a conference in London, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, urges farmers in the Caribbean to go organic. Atherton Martin, attendee and former Agriculture Minister in Dominica now President of the Caribbean Conservation Association, says the matter of change in the banana industry is a key factor at the conference (10:04-13:22)
7. Health officials in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have launched a big campaign to immunise children against an outbreak of Polio as two children die in an outbreak, the first in the Americas for a decade. Bertram Niles examines what caused it and Olen Kew of the Center for Disease Control explains further (13:23-15:29)