Caribbean Report 07-10-1992

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1. Correspondent Mike Jarvis provides updates on Guyana’s election results which, according to Jimmy Carter of the Carter Observer Team, favours the opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP) but will be released on Friday. Roger Luncheon of the PPP comments on the delay. (00:00-01:51)
2. Cheddi Jagan, Leader of the People's Progressive Party talks about why the party does not want to wait till Friday for him to be sworn in as president. (01:52-06:12)
3. Dr. Ralph Premdas, Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine, warns that the chances of a backlash from disgruntled People’s National Congress supporters to the PPP’s victory should not be ruled out. (06:13-09:59)
4. Hugh Crosskill reports on the response by Caribbean leaders to the call made by Guyana’s opposition for a CARICOM observer team to be sent to monitor its general elections. Comments are given by Cheddi Jagan, Michael Manley and Sahadeo Basdeo. (10:13:38)
5. Maria Liberia Peters, Dutch Antillean Prime Minister is in the Netherlands to get firsthand information on the number of Caribbean casualties in the Amsterdam area, which was hit by an Israeli cargo plane. (13:39-14-38)

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