Caribbean Report 04-12-1991
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1991-12-04
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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Report ended abruptly during the last segment.
Table of Contents
1. Headlines (00:00-00:40)
2. US airline Pan Am will stop flying after 64 years because of a cash crisis. The move follows a decision by Delta Airlines to pull out of a deal that would have saved the company. Pan Am planes in the air will continue to their destinations and all other flights have been canceled. The collapse of Pan Am is bad news for the Caribbean tourist industry as it is unlikely that any other airlines will rush in to take over their routes. Interview with Pan Am’s regional representative based in Barbados, Harry Fisher (00:41-03:49)
3. How can Caribbean sugar producers best confront the marketing challenges presented by new US and global trade policies? It is a question that came up for discussion during a special session on the world sugar market at the Miami Conference on the Caribbean. Particular attention was paid to a Hawaiian proposal that Caribbean producers seek to have their sugar refined in the United States for re-export. The spotlight was also on Cuba and the prospects for its important sugar industry in the post Castro era. Mike Jarvis spoke with St. Kitts-Nevis Agriculture Minister, Hugh Heyliger who is looking ahead for the day when Cuba joins the rest of the Caribbean in enjoying a US sugar quota (03:50-06:02)
4. In Cuba a commentary today on state radio has rejected the call of the Rio Group which met in Cartagena. Lionel Martin in Havana has been monitoring the response to a call by Latin American countries and Jamaica for changes in Cuba's political scene (06:03-07:55)
5. Sir Douglas Lynch, a former director of the Barbados Central Bank says the island's current economic crisis could have been averted if government moved the year earlier. Sir Douglas resigned his directorship in protest against the Prime Minister's handling of the economy and he told Mike Jarvis in Miami, Barbarians must brace themselves as the worst is yet to come (07:56-10:38)
6. The economic problems being experienced by Barbados and other countries in the Caribbean increasingly calls into question whether the OECS islands as a group can remain unaffected. The major worries surrounds the stability of the East Caribbean dollar and whether or not the problems in Barbados in particular could force a devaluation. Pete Ninvalle reports from St. Lucia that the governor of the East Caribbean Central Bank, Dwight Venner believes the prospect of a devaluation is remote (10:39-13:25)
7. A judge from the United States has extended a temporary ban preventing the repatriation of thousands of refugees fleeing Haiti. Interview with Esther Cruz, Haitian Refugee Center lawyer (13:26-13:40)
2. US airline Pan Am will stop flying after 64 years because of a cash crisis. The move follows a decision by Delta Airlines to pull out of a deal that would have saved the company. Pan Am planes in the air will continue to their destinations and all other flights have been canceled. The collapse of Pan Am is bad news for the Caribbean tourist industry as it is unlikely that any other airlines will rush in to take over their routes. Interview with Pan Am’s regional representative based in Barbados, Harry Fisher (00:41-03:49)
3. How can Caribbean sugar producers best confront the marketing challenges presented by new US and global trade policies? It is a question that came up for discussion during a special session on the world sugar market at the Miami Conference on the Caribbean. Particular attention was paid to a Hawaiian proposal that Caribbean producers seek to have their sugar refined in the United States for re-export. The spotlight was also on Cuba and the prospects for its important sugar industry in the post Castro era. Mike Jarvis spoke with St. Kitts-Nevis Agriculture Minister, Hugh Heyliger who is looking ahead for the day when Cuba joins the rest of the Caribbean in enjoying a US sugar quota (03:50-06:02)
4. In Cuba a commentary today on state radio has rejected the call of the Rio Group which met in Cartagena. Lionel Martin in Havana has been monitoring the response to a call by Latin American countries and Jamaica for changes in Cuba's political scene (06:03-07:55)
5. Sir Douglas Lynch, a former director of the Barbados Central Bank says the island's current economic crisis could have been averted if government moved the year earlier. Sir Douglas resigned his directorship in protest against the Prime Minister's handling of the economy and he told Mike Jarvis in Miami, Barbarians must brace themselves as the worst is yet to come (07:56-10:38)
6. The economic problems being experienced by Barbados and other countries in the Caribbean increasingly calls into question whether the OECS islands as a group can remain unaffected. The major worries surrounds the stability of the East Caribbean dollar and whether or not the problems in Barbados in particular could force a devaluation. Pete Ninvalle reports from St. Lucia that the governor of the East Caribbean Central Bank, Dwight Venner believes the prospect of a devaluation is remote (10:39-13:25)
7. A judge from the United States has extended a temporary ban preventing the repatriation of thousands of refugees fleeing Haiti. Interview with Esther Cruz, Haitian Refugee Center lawyer (13:26-13:40)