Caribbean Report 29-05-1992
| SpecialCollections.repository | All sounds files in this collection are being kept at the Main Library, Mona Campus, Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. | en_US |
| dc.contributor | The University of the West Indies | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Crosskill, Hugh (anchor ; interviewer) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitchell, Carlyle (interviewee) | |
| dc.contributor.author | James, Canute (correspondent) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bruney, Mike (correspondent) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leyne, Jon (correspondent) | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Caribbean Area. | en_US |
| dc.creator | The British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-23T20:11:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-23T20:11:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-05-29 | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 1. Headlines (00:00-00:35) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 2. Jamaican Finance Minister Hugh Small calls on CARICOM to reduce the top rate of the common external tariff (CET) which currently stands at 45%. Dr. Carlyle Mitchell, Director of OECS Economic Secretariat in Antigua, says the proposal is likely to find favour with the leaders and business community in the sub-regional grouping. Comments are also given by Wendell Mottley, Trinidad and Tobago Finance Minister (00:36-05:10) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 3. The Jamaican budget delivered yesterday promises a lowering of income tax levels, further plans to bring down the rate of inflation and an attempt to achieve a budget surplus. Financial journalist Canute James comments on the government’s financial plans (05:11-07:53) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 4. Canadian Economist Kari Levitt believes Jamaica has followed the liberalization model too assiduously and is caught in a debt trap brought on by extreme liberalization conditions (07:54-09:46) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 5. Dominica’s opposition United Workers’ Party leads a demonstration against the sale of Dominican passports to Taiwanese investors. Correspondent Mike Bruney reports (09:49-13:08) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 6. Haiti’s ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets today with United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali in his bid to get an international blockade of Haiti. Correspondent Jon Leyne reports (13:09-14:37) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 7. Jamaica’s Foreign Minister David Core announces that Jamaica will now take up to 150 Haitians, fifty more than the January quota (14:38-14:51) | en_US |
| dc.format | Stereo 192 bit rate MP3;44,100 Mega bits;16 bit | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 15 min. 08 sec. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | Sound, mp3 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | CAR1025 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/39493 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The BBC Caribbean Archives Collection 1988 - 2011 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessRights | Access to this collection is available on site at the Main Library, Mona Campus (main.library@uwimona.edu.jm), Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library (wimail@sta.uwi.edu), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Non-tariff trade barriers -- Caribbean Area | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Caribbean Area -- Economic integration | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Citizenship -- Dominica | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Pressure groups -- Dominica | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Demonstrations -- Dominica | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | United Nations -- Foreign economic relations -- Haiti | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Embargo -- Haiti | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Economic sanctions -- Haiti | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Haiti -- Refugees -- Jamaica | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Common external tariff -- Caribbean Area | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Taiwanese businessmen -- Citizenship -- Dominica | en_US |
| dc.title | Caribbean Report 29-05-1992 | en_US |
| dc.type | Recording, oral | en_US |