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Item Caribbean Report 18-02-1993(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-02-18) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Adams, David (interviewee); McLeod, Errol (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Mulder, Sebastian (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Barnes, John (interviewee); Winter, Henry (interviewee); Taylor, Graham (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationAfter an overcrowded ferry (the Neptune) with over 1000 people sank in a rainstorm off the western peninsular of Haiti - correspondent David Adams reports. A man hijacked a missionary shuttle plane in Haiti demanding to be flown to Florida. The Federal aviation administration spokesperson said the flight had refueled in Turks and Caicos and was on its way to Miami. (TandT government has gotten a two weeks grace period during the Carnival weekend from the protest of the country’s increasingly restless trade union movement and thousands of public servants. However, Errol Mc Cloud President of the National Trade Union centre in an interview with correspondent Debbie Ransome said that the union did not rule out national industrial action in the very near future. A consultative committee has been set up in Suriname into look at ways to halting the country’s inflation situation and rapid economic malaise and averting industrial unrest as workers are becoming increasingly agitated -correspondent Sandra Baptiste in an interview with Fr. Sebastian Mulder reports. Jamaica’s two main political parties and its representatives Prime Minister PJ Patterson and Opposition Leader Edward Philip George Seaga are moving towards a first in the region by staging a political debate whenever general elections are called as part of a move towards change in the political culture in Jamaica – correspondent Gary Allen reports. Popular footballer John Barnes came under much criticism and booing of an English crowd of over 50,000 at a Liverpool and England football match at Wembley – correspondent Debbi Ransome reports from an interview with sports writer Henry Winter of British newspaper - the Independent.Item Caribbean Report 27-04-1993(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-04-27) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Manning, Patrick (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Alarcon, Ricardo (interviewee); Nicholas, Neville (interviewee); Taylor, Graham (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationFormer Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley was named CARICOM ambassador at large, the announcement was made in Prot of Spain by CARICOM Chairman - Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning - Tony Fraser reports. The president of the Caribbean Development Banks – Sir Neville Nicholas has warned that the trade union movement in Trinidad and Tobago can thwart the objectives of the flotation of the country’s currency. Haiti’s UN ambassador Fritz Longshun says that the Haitian military is dragging its feet in negotiations to ensure that Jean Bertrand Aristide does not return as president - Debbie Ransome reports. United officials in Haiti were reportedly trying to secure the release of three union leaders held after calling for a general strike in Port au Prince. The president of Cuba’s parliament Ricardo Alarcon has rejected suggestions that Cuba really does not want the US to lift the trade embargo, bases on the grounds that then Cuba would not be able to blame its problems on the US. John Barnes, Jamaican born England national footballer has retained his place on the England team for the world cup qualifier against Holland at London’s Wembely stadium.