1993 July-December CR

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    Caribbean Report 03-12-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-12-03) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Franks, Sam (interviewee); Amory, Vance (interviewee); Douglas, Denzil (interviewee); Bharath, Vasant (interviewee); Martin, Atherton (interviewee)
    Sam Franks, President of the St. Kitts Chamber of Industry and Commerce explains in an interview the role his organization is playing as a broker between the two main political parties during the country’s political crisis. Manufacturers in Trinidad and Tobago are concerned that while their government is reducing its import tariffs the same may not be happening in CARICOM. Vasant Bharath, Executive member of the T andT Manufacturer’s Association expresses his concerns about the reduction of the tariffs. Atherton E. Martin, Executive Director of The Development Institute says that the world banks needs to change its approach to poverty and consult more with organizations that represents the poor - Yvette Rowe reports. Norman George Cowans, Jamaican fast bowler signed a two year contract to play with Hampshire in the English County Championship and will link up with Antiguan Winston Benjamin. And, Dolly Kippin, Jamaica born British community leader is to be evicted from her London flat in the same housing state where she helped police track down the murderers of a policeman. She ran up debts of fifteen thousand GPB.
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    Caribbean Report 30-11-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-11-30) Orr, Carol (anchor); Amory, Vance (interviewee); Small, Richard (interviewee); Douglas, Denzil (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Martin, Atherton (interviewee)
    Vance Amory, Prime Minister of Nevis held discussions with both the PAM and Denzil Douglas of the St, Kitts Labour Party following the general elections in St. Kitts and Nevis. Another test case is to be taken by Jamaican lawyers to the Privy Council questioning the validity of the reclassification of death row prisoners. Delegates at the Miami Conference on the Caribbean and Latin America have been assessing the region’s chances of winning similar preferential arrangements in line with the NAFTA. The World Bank is proposing working with non-governmental organizations on projects to alleviate poverty. Over the last few days life in Cuba has been in the spotlight and the politics and legacy of past Cuban leaders José Martí and Castro has been highlighted and reexamined. France will host a conference on how to work out how to send a UN mission and a team of peacekeepers to Haiti – specifically aimed at returning exiled prisoner Jean Bertrand Aristide to power. And, Vance Amory explains his political intentions in an interview with correspondent Carol Orr.