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    Caribbean Report 22-09-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-09-22) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Beven, Jack (interviewee); Pankow, Robert (correspondent); Coffey, Kendall (interviewee); Cadman, Dan (interviewee); Cuffy, Victor (interviewee); St. Pierre, Allen (interviewee); Richards, Ken (correspondent); Burton, Dan (interviewee); van der Merwe, Casper (interviewee); Springer, Henderson (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this report the Miami Weather Bureau has dismissed fears in the Windward and Leeward Islands that yet another hurricane is on the way. In the US, more than one hundred alleged Jamaican drug traffickers have been arrested following an undercover operation which provided green cards in exchange for cocaine and cash. Kendall Coffey of the US Attorney Office and Dan Cadman, Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) comment on the operation. In Trinidad, American marines with local police and soldiers carried out a marijuana eradication exercise, codename "Weed-eater". Human rights campaigner Victor Cuffy questions what will be put in place to assist after the US authorities has eradicated all these drugs. However, as the US moves to eradicate marijuana production in the Caribbean, within its own borders it has become its largest cash crop. Allen St. Pierre, Deputy National Director of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) comments on the increase in marijuana production within the US. Republican Congressman Dan Burton is urging US President Bill Clinton to support his anti-Cuba bill following the overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives. In cricket, contrary to press reports, Barbadian cricket Henderson Springer has not been appointed as captain to the South African side, Western Transvaal, for the upcoming season.
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    Caribbean Report 25-09-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-09-25) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Coffey, Kendall (interviewee); Chuck, Delroy (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Compton, John (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Watson, Gillian (interviewee); Bruney, Mike (correspondent); Bruno, Felicity (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this report over one hundred Jamaicans and other nationals arrested in a sting operation in the US appeared before the US courts on charges of drug trafficking. US Attorney Kendall Coffey explains the exercise that induced traffickers to part with cocaine in exchange for green cards. However, Jamaican legal expert Delroy Chuck argues that this a classic case of entrapment for those arrested. St. Lucia's Prime Minister John Compton expresses concern about the recent upheavals in the banana industry in the Windward Islands. These concerns follow an Ecuadorian bid to takeover Geest, the US challenge to the Europe's banana regime at the WTO and the extensive hurricane damage sustained. Meanwhile, the dreaded pink mealybug poses a major threat in the Caribbean as scientists work on a way to identify and breed a natural predator. Dr. Gillian Watson, of the British Natural History Museum states that the best option for controlling the mealybug is to bring in a natural enemy in the form of a Chinese wasp. A British tabloid newspaper criticised the World Heavyweight Champion Frank Bruno because his grandmother lives in poverty in Dominica. Felicity Bruno states she was horrified that the journalist used the article to attack Frank Bruno.