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    Caribbean Report 17-04-1997
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-04-17) Richards, Ken (anchor); Ballandras, Jean (interviewee); Venries, Patrick (interviewee); Smith, Colin (correspondent); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Grant, Jennifer (correspondent); Chuck, Delroy (correspondent); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Robertson, Jeffrey (interviewee); Gibb, Tom (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Police and demonstrators have clashed in French Guiana over the arrest of independent supporters. Overnight riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators that camped out at Cayenne Central Police Station demanding information on a group of detainees. Next, the Amerindians of Guyana protested outside the parliament today as a bill to rename the country’s only international airport was due to have its first reading in Parliament. The bill seeks to change the name from Timehri, a word honouring Amerindians to Cheddi Jagan International in memory of the late President. In Guyana a fourth Asian timber company has been given a foothold in Guyana’s forest. A memorandum of understanding was signed today with a Malaysian company. Next, a Jamaican drug trafficking ring which flew American teenagers to Jamaica and then forced them to swallow capsules of cocaine so that they could smuggle it back to the United States has been uncovered. Also, the slaying of two teenagers in what is being described as a gang feud with political overtones in the capital city, Kingston, has sparked a call for all night vigil to address the problems of political violence in Jamaica. Next, a team of British lawyers have appealed for the intervention of British government on behalf of a Trinidad born inmate on Florida’s death row. In the final segment, Cuba is celebrating the thirty sixth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to topple the government of Fidel Castro
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    Caribbean Report 24-04-1997
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-04-24) Richards, Ken (anchor); Venries, Patrick (interviewee); Ballandras, Jean (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In French Guiana officials say that nine police were wounded during another night of riots in the Capital, Cayenne. Demonstrators are protesting against the arrest of Pro-independent activists. The arrests were linked into inquiries into the burning down last December of the prosecutor’s home of the French overseas territory. Next, Jamaica’s Commissioner of Correction told Caribbean Report that he was responsible for sending four death row inmates for hospital treatment after suspecting that excessive force was used in last month’s recapture. Next, the need for prison reform was earlier this month re-emphasised in a meeting in Port of Spain. A call for closer co-operation between government, prison officials and non-government bodies working with prisons was highlighted. Next, an agreement has been signed to bring South Africa into membership of the Lome Convention which links seventy developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific with the European Union. Apart from the ACP group welcoming South Africa whole heartedly into its ranks the group also raised matters of special Caribbean interest affecting rum and bananas. Next, in Haiti a former Haitian lawmaker was shot and killed. He briefly served as Vice President of Haiti’s Lower House of Parliament. He was elected to the legislature in 1990 and became House Vice-president in 1992. He was a fervent partisan of the Haitian army that ousted then President, Jean Bertrand Aristide in the 1991 coup. In the final segment, regional airlines BWIA and Air Jamaica are signing an agreement for technical co-operation. Airline officials are, however, being cautious about promoting the move as the start of real progress towards having a regional air carrier.