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    Caribbean Report 15-06-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-06-15) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Simmonds, Kennedy (interviewee); Douglas, Denzil (interviewee); Richards, Ken (correspondent); Smith, Lew (correspondent); Spencer, Baldwin (interviewee); Arnold, Thomas, Sir (interviewee); Baldry, Tony (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    This report highlights the impending elections in St. Kitts/Nevis on July 3rd. Prime Minister Kennedy Simmonds and Opposition Labour Party, Denzil Douglas talk about their campaign agenda. Dominica's new Prime Minister Edison James finalizes his Cabinet and adopts the foreign affairs portfolio. Meanwhile, the two opposition parties have resolved the impasse regarding the Leader of the Opposition. In Grenada, Lew Smith examines the three major political parties manifestos. On the agenda of the meeting of LIAT Directors is the issue of share allocation for the airline and Trinidad's proposal for the removal of LIAT's Chairman William Rapier. In the British Parliament, Sir Thomas Arnold comments on Britain's policy towards the Caribbean. The majority of businesses in downtown Kingston closed in to protest the rising crime. A team from the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington based think-tank, made its first visit to Cuba and met with government officials as well as non-governmental organizations and dissident groups. Cuba states that it has not offered to extradite American fugitive Robert Vesco.