Caribbean Report 16-02-1989
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1989-02-16
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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On the day that elections is expected to be announced in Antigua, opposition leader, Tim Hector of the Antiguan Caribbean Liberation Movement cites corruption as one of the major issues and lists his strategies to win the elections. The influential New Yorker Magazine describes Antigua as a playpen for Prime Minister Bird and his son. In the British Virgin Islands, Alan O'Neil of the newly formed political party, the Independent People's Movement speaks of the need for the revision of the British Nationality Act which disenfranchise immigrant women who marries local men, and their offspring. At the meeting of the Ministerial Group of ACP/EEC members at Brazzaville, British Euro MP Michael Hindley asks Secretary General, Edwin Carrington to raise the issue of the worldwide ban on the skin lightening poisonous mercury iodide soap that was banned for sales in Europe but exported to third world countries.
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Table of Contents
1. Headlines (00:00-00:50)
2. Interview with Tim Hector, Leader of the Oppostion and party, Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement on his strategies to win the elections (00:51-07:10)
3. Financial News (07:11-08:45)
4. Interview with Alan O'Neil of the newly formed political party, the Independent People's Movement. O'Neil speaks of the revision of of the British Nationality Act which disenfranchise females of other territories who marries local males, and their off springs (08:46-12:24)
5. British Euro MP Michael Hindley asked Secretary General Edwin Carrington at the ACP/EEC meeting to raise the issue of the worldwide ban on the skin lightening poisonous mercury iodide soap that was exported to third world countries (12:25-14:42)
2. Interview with Tim Hector, Leader of the Oppostion and party, Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement on his strategies to win the elections (00:51-07:10)
3. Financial News (07:11-08:45)
4. Interview with Alan O'Neil of the newly formed political party, the Independent People's Movement. O'Neil speaks of the revision of of the British Nationality Act which disenfranchise females of other territories who marries local males, and their off springs (08:46-12:24)
5. British Euro MP Michael Hindley asked Secretary General Edwin Carrington at the ACP/EEC meeting to raise the issue of the worldwide ban on the skin lightening poisonous mercury iodide soap that was exported to third world countries (12:25-14:42)