Caribbean Report 23-04-2002
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2002-04-23
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)
2. President Fidel Castro is in a political battle with two of Cuba’s Latin American neighbours, following the vote in Geneva against its human rights record led by Uruguay and Mexico’s President Vicente Fox. Fidel Castro says they insulted him and interfered with his country’s policies and Uruguay breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana. Senior Analyst, the Economist Intelligence Unit, London, Emily Morris, comments on the insults and all three countries’ relations with the US (00:25-03:52)
3. In Mexico’s latest salvo the country’s Foreign Minister called Cuba “a democracy-free zone, devoid of respect for human rights” (03:53-04:01)
4. In the United states, Senator Byron Dorgan sets the stage for a possible showdown with the American State Department as he takes objection to a State Department decision to cancel the visas of several Cuban government officials, including Pedro Alvarez, Head of the Cuban Food Buying Agency, planning a trip to the US to purchase food. Ken Richards explains (04:02-05:19)
5. Haiti is downgraded in the only change among Caribbean countries, in the annual survey of press freedom by Freedom House. The American non-profit organisation that monitors political rights and civil liberties worldwide rated the press in Haiti as not free, a status that only Cuba had been previously given while all the other Caribbean countries are labelled as free, except for Antigua and Barbuda which is rated partly free. Bertram Niles reports (05:20-07:13)
6. The Association of Caribbean Media Workers welcome the Freedom House report, but its President Wesley Gibbings says there is still concern over the freedom of press in Antigua highlighting the situation with Julius Gittens and his work permit difficulties and the threat to the lives of journalists in Haiti, where several media workers were targeted and attacked and one journalist, Brignolle Lindor, killed (07:14-10:22)
7. Twenty-five pre-market groups in the United States write to the Chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate Tax-writing Committee, urging them to reject what the groups call fiscal protectionism. The letter is sparked by the growing controversy about whether US corporations should be allowed to relocate to lower tax jurisdictions such as off-shore centres in the Caribbean. Ben Meade reports (10:23-12:29)
8. The storm over the patent rights of a process for manufacturing steel pans by an American, Harvey Price, does not look like it is going to go away soon, not if one of the great calypsonians, the Mighty Sparrow, has his way. Leslie Goffe reports (12:30-14:03)
9. Indian cricket fans celebrate their country’s first test victory in the Caribbean since 1976, after a 37-run win in the second test in Trinidad. The sport editor of the Hindustan Times explains how people on the sub-continent react (14:04-15:18)
2. President Fidel Castro is in a political battle with two of Cuba’s Latin American neighbours, following the vote in Geneva against its human rights record led by Uruguay and Mexico’s President Vicente Fox. Fidel Castro says they insulted him and interfered with his country’s policies and Uruguay breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana. Senior Analyst, the Economist Intelligence Unit, London, Emily Morris, comments on the insults and all three countries’ relations with the US (00:25-03:52)
3. In Mexico’s latest salvo the country’s Foreign Minister called Cuba “a democracy-free zone, devoid of respect for human rights” (03:53-04:01)
4. In the United states, Senator Byron Dorgan sets the stage for a possible showdown with the American State Department as he takes objection to a State Department decision to cancel the visas of several Cuban government officials, including Pedro Alvarez, Head of the Cuban Food Buying Agency, planning a trip to the US to purchase food. Ken Richards explains (04:02-05:19)
5. Haiti is downgraded in the only change among Caribbean countries, in the annual survey of press freedom by Freedom House. The American non-profit organisation that monitors political rights and civil liberties worldwide rated the press in Haiti as not free, a status that only Cuba had been previously given while all the other Caribbean countries are labelled as free, except for Antigua and Barbuda which is rated partly free. Bertram Niles reports (05:20-07:13)
6. The Association of Caribbean Media Workers welcome the Freedom House report, but its President Wesley Gibbings says there is still concern over the freedom of press in Antigua highlighting the situation with Julius Gittens and his work permit difficulties and the threat to the lives of journalists in Haiti, where several media workers were targeted and attacked and one journalist, Brignolle Lindor, killed (07:14-10:22)
7. Twenty-five pre-market groups in the United States write to the Chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate Tax-writing Committee, urging them to reject what the groups call fiscal protectionism. The letter is sparked by the growing controversy about whether US corporations should be allowed to relocate to lower tax jurisdictions such as off-shore centres in the Caribbean. Ben Meade reports (10:23-12:29)
8. The storm over the patent rights of a process for manufacturing steel pans by an American, Harvey Price, does not look like it is going to go away soon, not if one of the great calypsonians, the Mighty Sparrow, has his way. Leslie Goffe reports (12:30-14:03)
9. Indian cricket fans celebrate their country’s first test victory in the Caribbean since 1976, after a 37-run win in the second test in Trinidad. The sport editor of the Hindustan Times explains how people on the sub-continent react (14:04-15:18)