Caribbean Report 08-03-1996

Abstract

Description

Table of Contents

1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)
2. Caricom's Secretry General says NAFTA may have to make way for another hemispheric trade area. Caricom's Secretary General Edwin Carrington is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (00:29-03:01)
3. Caricom has announced plans for a regional platform of action for women. One that would supplement programmes organised on a national level. Caricom's Secretary General Edwin Carrington and Co-ordinator of a Women's Organisaton in Jamaica Carol Narcisse are interviewed (03:02-06:42)
4. Barbados gives a helping hand to returning residents. Prime Minister Owen Arthur is interviewed and Moya Thomas reports (06:43-10:11)
5. We look at the Indo-Guyanese community in New York. Several Indo-Guyanese are interviewed (10:12-13:54)
6. The European Commission has been asked to prepare a study of the effects on European business on the new American legislation tightening the embargo against Cuba (13:55-14:19)
7. West Indies batsman Brian Lara has apologised to his South African opponents in the World Cup but denies he made racist comments about them (14:20-15:17)

Keywords

Citation