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Item Caribbean Report 05-07-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-07-05) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Peynado, Jacinto (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); James, Edison (interviewee); Esquivel, Manuel (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Perreira, Joseph 'Reds' (correspondent); Richards, Ken (correspondent); Taylor, Derek (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationIn this report: as the CARICOM Summit continues in Guyana, the private sector presented its position paper which calls for the establishment of a high level joint public and private sector task force to define regional priorities. The Vice President of the Dominican Republic, Jacinto Peynado states his country is still seeking full membership of CARICOM and has received backing from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The future of regional airline LIAT continues to fly high on the agenda of the CARICOM Summit. CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister Edison James of Dominica pushes the banana issue onto the front burner. In Trinidad, a rather unparliamentary wrangle is developing over government's attempt to remove the Speaker of the House of Representatives through a no confidence motion. Dr. Denzil Douglas, the new Prime Minister of St. Kitts/Nevis spends his first day in office and reflects on the wind of change blowing through the Caribbean. In cricket, the West Indies makes two changes to their twelve-man squad for the third test against England. Chief Minister Derek Taylor of the Turks and Caicos Islands discusses his country's economic development with British officials.Item Caribbean Report 10-07-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-07-10) Richards, Ken (anchor); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Seepaul, Occah (interviewee); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Weatherill, Bernard (interviewee); Hudson-Phillips, Karl (interviewee); d'Auvergne, Ausbert (interviewee); Draper, Gordon (interviewee); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationIn this report: the Speaker of Trinidad and Tobago's House of Representatives, Ms. Occah Seepaul, refuses to stand down in a no confidence debate brought against her by the government. Meanwhile, the Attorney General Keith Sobion states that the government will take the matter to the full distance. Lord Weatherill, Former Speaker of the British House of Commons comments that this matter should not be taken lightly by Madame Speaker. In St. Lucia, the commission of inquiry into the alleged misuse of UN funds has resumed without key witness Dr. Charles Flemming. The Commission heard from former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Planning, Ausbert d'Auvergne. Trinidad and Tobago's Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has denied that his United National Congress (UNC) is standing in the way of a Caribbean court of appeal. Following the end of the CARICOM Summit, Caribbean Report asked members of the press corps if it was all plain sailing in terms of the coverage of the Summit.Item Caribbean Report 13-07-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-07-13) Richards, Ken (anchor); Compton, John (interviewee); Ford, Henry (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Ghany, Hamid (interviewee); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Ross, Leone (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationIn this report: St. Lucia's Prime Minister John Compton testified before the commission of inquiry into the alleged misuse of UN funds. Under cross examination by Counsel for the Cabinet Henry Ford, Mr. Compton disputed testimony given by former UN Ambassador Dr. Charles Flemming. In Trinidad, constitutional expert Dr. Hamid Ghany warns that the country is at a constitutional precipice after the Speaker of the House threw out government's no confidence motion. In Haiti, a self-styled communist folk singer, Manno Charlemagne is to become the new Mayor of the capital Port-au-Prince. In Britain, a British- Asian man is having a legal tussle with his wife over eighteen million pounds he won in the national lottery. Steve Dean was named Man of the Match as the West Indies cricket team crashed to defeat in the fifty-five overs match against the Minor Counties in Reading.Item Caribbean Report 16-03-1993(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-03-16) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Abu Bakr, Yasin (interviewee); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Naipaul, V.S. (interviewee); Burroughs, Andrew (correspndent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Johnson, Anthony (interviewee); Khan, Bobby (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationNine months after being freed on a charge of trying to violently overthrow the Trinidad and Tobago government – Muslimeen Leader Yasin Abu Bakr is complaining that the long delay by the government in filing the grounds of appeal against the High Court Order to compensate the insurgence amounts to oppression, and is threatening retaliation action. Justice Cupid Brooks ruled that the Muslimeen be compensated for wrongful imprisonment. Abu Bakr’s threatening remarks comes at a time when Trinidad and Tobago is considering updating its Sedition Laws. Keith Sobian, Attorney General Trinidad and Tobago urged against confrontation between the Government and the Jamaat al Muslimeen. There has been a mixed response to Barbados’s 1992/1993 budget, with its main elements being a two year wage freeze and indirect taxes to finance a budget deficit of just over 23 million dollars. Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford explained that the incomes policy was designed to deal with the country’s stable exchange rate issues, high labour costs and make Barbados more competitive in the export sector. Anthony Johnson – President of the Barbados economic Society believes that the budget could be mildly inflationary. Businessman Bobby Khan of the Manufacturing Society says that more jobs can be loosed as a result of this budget – correspondent Sandra Baptiste reports. A British business tycoon Spencer Trethewy says that he plans to set up an airline (Cunard Airways) to fly the Barbados to London route. However, both the Barbados and the UK Civil Aviation Authority says that it has received no application for licenses. Trethewy has also been named in a number of other shady business dealings, and there is much doubt over the legitimacy of his company Digital Development Corporation - correspondent Yvette Rowe reports. Trinidadian born writer V.S Naipaul has been awarded the first prestigious David Cohen British Literature Prize by the Arts Council of England in 1993 at a private ceremony- correspondent Andrew Burroughs reports from the award ceremony. Cuba has been careful not to editorialize on its coverage of the present Russian crisis. In Moscow, Russian, President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin has been fighting for his political life as the Russian Congress of People’s Deputies seek to overturn his reformist methods – correspondent Lionel Martin reports. Haiti’s exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide wants US President Bill Clinton to use naval ships to cut off oil and weapons supply to his country, and calls for stronger US action in the New York Times. He was scheduled to have a late Tuesday meeting with President Clinton. A White House spokesman said that President Clinton will be sending an envoy to Port-au-Prince to tell that Haitian leaders that the US leader’s patience is running out. And, American civil rights leader Jessie Jackson and two other clergymen have been charged with civil disobedience and resisting arrest at a protest over the detention of HIV infected Haitians at Guantanamo Bay – Cuba.Item Caribbean Report 17-03-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-03-17) Orr, Carol (anchor); Burnhill, Bobbie (correspondent); Rush, George (correspondent); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Hayes, Rosie (correspondent); Sanchez, Elizardo (interviewee); Fairley, Ian (correspondent); Pierce, Dennis (interviewee); Nairn, Allan (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationPolice in the British Virgin Islands have made one of the region's biggest cocaine seizures. The debate on the controversial issue of independence of Bermuda began in the country's Parliament. The Trinidad and Tobago government is seeking to end constitutional motions to Britain's Privy Council. The country's Attorney General Keith Sobion argued that this is in response to concern over the abuse of constitutional motions by prisoners on death row. Cuba's President Fidel Castro returned home following a visit to France during which he gave a tentative agreement to a human rights probe. Rosie Hayes reports on reactions in Cuba to a possible human rights probe. In Haiti there is a wave of petty crime with signs that the population is applying its own form of justice. Meanwhile, journalist Michael Norton reports on what is being done officially to tackle the growing rise in crime in Haiti.Item Caribbean Report 17-04-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-04-17) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Morris, Christopher (correspondent); Alleyne, Gary (correspondent); Gregory, Errol (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Niles, Bertram (correspondent); Walter, Irene (interviewee); Broomes, Desmond (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationThe US State Department responds to the letter of protest written by St. Vincent's Prime Minister Sir James Mitchell. Tensions have gripped the Jamaican money markets a few days before the presentation of the 1995/96 budget. Errol Gregory, Managing Editor of Money Index magazine explains why the money markets are so jittery at this time. Chiquita Brands, the American multinational distributor and producer of bananas and other produce lost $71.5 million last year due to new EU quotas, a strike in Honduras and poor sales in Japan. The Trinidad and Tobago government has withdrawn a bill which sought to end constitutional appeals to the British Privy Council on criminal matters. As thousands of school children in the region prepare for exams set by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), teachers criticise the exams as too difficult and syllabuses too burdensome. Irene Walter, CXC Acting Registrar comments on the issue.Item Caribbean Report 30-03-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-03-30) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Manning, Patrick (interviewee); La Guerre, John Gaffar (interviewee); Collymore, Yvette (correspondent); Ramphal, Shridath (interviewee); Coughlan, Geraldine (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationTrinidad and Tobago's Attorney General Keith Sobion has rejected comments made by the human rights group, Caribbean Rights which accused him of contempt of court in last year's hanging of death row prisoner Glenn Ashby. Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning has called that country's Public Service Commissions colonial and stated that they have outlived their usefulness. John La Guerre, a UWI lecturer comments on the Prime Minister's statements. American President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Haiti and attend a ceremony to mark the handing over of peacekeeping operations from the US to the UN. Washington reports that several people have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Madame Durocher Bertin in Haiti. The future of Britain on the international scene was the topic of a major conference in London. Former Commonwealth Secretary-General Sir Shridath Ramphal comments on how Britain's reputation is viewed from the outside. The interests of Europe's peripheral islands, including those in the French Caribbean, are to be more strongly defended with a new international cooperation agreement. A new type of television camera will be making its debut as the West Indies cricket team faces Australia during the first test in Barbados.