Caribbean Report 15-11-1999

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1. Headlines with anchor Jessica Robertson (00:00 - 00: 26)
2. Commonwealth heads of Government ends a summit in South Africa with an agreement to review the organization role in the new century. This new role is designed to make the organization of 54 countries more effective and support needs of its 1.8 million constituents. Issues addressed include democracy, poverty, globalization, human rights commonwealth agenda. Chief Emeka Anyaoku speaks on democracy, diversity, tolerance and understanding the values of Commonwealth organizations. Barbados foreign Minister Billie Miller discusses upcoming WHO meeting in Seattle conference. PJ Patterson discusses practical steps required for economic revival in developing countries. Correspondent James Robbins and Julian Marshall reports form Durban (00:27 – 07: 12)
3. Delegates from Spain Portugal and Latin America attending the IBero-American Summit in Havana are expected to lobby for an end of cold war sanctions imposed by US and democracy in Cuba. Tom Gibb reports (00:28 - 09:30)
4. Parts of the Caribbean region are on alert for Hurricane Lenny on path to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with rainfalls expected at more than 30 inches and associated flooding and landslides (09:31 – 10:05)
5. France will opposed the new EU Commission proposals to reform EU banana import arrangement. Jamaica Marketing Company executive director Junior Lodge and Minister for Commerce and Technology Philip Powell discusses proposals and the long term effects on Caribbean region. Ken Richards reports (10:06 – 12:39)
6. Caribbean Basin Initiative Amendment bill which recently pass in the US Senate is awaiting final approval in the US House of representatives. Leslie Garth reports (12:40 – 15:24)

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