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    Caribbean Report 15-02-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-02-15) Goffe, Leslie (anchor); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Roopnarine, Rupert (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Robinson, A.N.R. (interviewee); Griffin, Ann (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Wells, Bowen (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (correspondent); Snagg, Neville (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Election officials in Guyana will begin a three month house to house registration in preparation for the upcoming general elections due by the end of the year. Opposition parties in Guyana are calling for the appointment of a CARICOM team to observe the elections. St. Lucia’s Foreign Minister, Neville Snagg explains that whilst it is regrettable to have civilian causalities in the Gulf war, it is the inevitable price that Iraq must pay. More than 200 British MPs have given support to an urgent appeal by government to increase the level of oversees aid to reduce debt in third world countries. Hugh Croskill speaks to Ann Griffin, Legislative Director, of Trans Africa, an African American and Caribbean foreign policy lobby group, which is working on a proposal to get Congress to grant more than 100 million dollars in debt relief to the Caribbean. In Trinidad and Tobago the industrial scene is heating up as confrontation between the trade unions and government looks imminent.