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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