Caribbean Report 21-11-1991
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1991-11-21
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:40)
2. Sixteen people died and 119 missing at sea as a boat carrying Haitian refugees sank off the coast of Cuba. Sixty persons survived and are receiving treatment in Cuba. The Jamaican government says it will consider the request by the US to officially take in refugees. Comments from Bruce Golding, the Chairman of the opposition Jamaican Labour Party on the risk of opening up a floodgate for future refugees (00:41-04:32)
3. US administration defends its policy of sending the Haitian refugees home and states that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees and not political refugees. Comments from Margaret Tutwiler of the State Department (04:33-05:31)
4. A delegation from Haiti’s National Assembly meets with ousted President Aristide in Colombia tomorrow. Mike Jarvis interviews Edwin Carrington, a member of the last OAS mission to Haiti on the likely outcome of the meeting (05:32-08:07)
5. Nineteen asylum seeking Haitians have occupied the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince and reports indicate that they are armed and threatening the staff (08:08-08:40)
6. Voters in Guyana will know tomorrow when the elections will take place. Sharief Khan reports that the President is due to address the nation tomorrow and Rudy Collins, Chairman of the Elections Commission, also announced the Commission’s inability to produce the final voters list (08:41-10:45)
7. Students of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica protest against a proposal by the University administration to increase tuition fees by 1000 percent. Gary Allen interviews Glyndon Johnson, President of the Student Guild (10:46-12:30)
8. Antigua and Barbuda Finance Minister, Molwyn Joseph, is ruling out going to the IMF for assistance. Comments from the opposition leader, Baldwin Spencer, who states that the government have not identified viable options to recover from the economic crisis (12:31-15:00)
2. Sixteen people died and 119 missing at sea as a boat carrying Haitian refugees sank off the coast of Cuba. Sixty persons survived and are receiving treatment in Cuba. The Jamaican government says it will consider the request by the US to officially take in refugees. Comments from Bruce Golding, the Chairman of the opposition Jamaican Labour Party on the risk of opening up a floodgate for future refugees (00:41-04:32)
3. US administration defends its policy of sending the Haitian refugees home and states that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees and not political refugees. Comments from Margaret Tutwiler of the State Department (04:33-05:31)
4. A delegation from Haiti’s National Assembly meets with ousted President Aristide in Colombia tomorrow. Mike Jarvis interviews Edwin Carrington, a member of the last OAS mission to Haiti on the likely outcome of the meeting (05:32-08:07)
5. Nineteen asylum seeking Haitians have occupied the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince and reports indicate that they are armed and threatening the staff (08:08-08:40)
6. Voters in Guyana will know tomorrow when the elections will take place. Sharief Khan reports that the President is due to address the nation tomorrow and Rudy Collins, Chairman of the Elections Commission, also announced the Commission’s inability to produce the final voters list (08:41-10:45)
7. Students of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica protest against a proposal by the University administration to increase tuition fees by 1000 percent. Gary Allen interviews Glyndon Johnson, President of the Student Guild (10:46-12:30)
8. Antigua and Barbuda Finance Minister, Molwyn Joseph, is ruling out going to the IMF for assistance. Comments from the opposition leader, Baldwin Spencer, who states that the government have not identified viable options to recover from the economic crisis (12:31-15:00)