Caribbean Report 11-01-2000
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2000-01-11
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines: (00:00-00:23)
2. While legal experts in the Elian Gonzalez case debate the implications of Monday’s ruling, the demonstrations of exiles in Miami have been denounced in Havana.(00:24-05:27)
3. Regional travel agents received a rude fax from American Airlines indicating a cut in one-third from 6%-9% in commissions paid to travel agents. There are plans to boycott writing tickets for flights on American Airlines. (05:28-07:57)
4. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company has been voicing its side of the story with regard to the telephone rates dispute with ATandT. ATandT has cut off calls from the U.S. into Guyana as the local company refuses to lower call rates. (07:58-11:08)
5. There have been delays in the Bahamas into the inquest of death row prisoner John Higgs who committed suicide a day before his scheduled execution. A hearing today has been postponed for 2 weeks until the country’s Superintendent of Prisons return to Nassau to give his evidence (11:09-12:40 31)
2. While legal experts in the Elian Gonzalez case debate the implications of Monday’s ruling, the demonstrations of exiles in Miami have been denounced in Havana.(00:24-05:27)
3. Regional travel agents received a rude fax from American Airlines indicating a cut in one-third from 6%-9% in commissions paid to travel agents. There are plans to boycott writing tickets for flights on American Airlines. (05:28-07:57)
4. The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company has been voicing its side of the story with regard to the telephone rates dispute with ATandT. ATandT has cut off calls from the U.S. into Guyana as the local company refuses to lower call rates. (07:58-11:08)
5. There have been delays in the Bahamas into the inquest of death row prisoner John Higgs who committed suicide a day before his scheduled execution. A hearing today has been postponed for 2 weeks until the country’s Superintendent of Prisons return to Nassau to give his evidence (11:09-12:40 31)