Caribbean Report 12-03-2002
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2002-03-12
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:26)
2. The Privy Council in London upholds an OECS court ruling that the mandatory death penalty is in violation of the constitutions of six OECS countries and Belize causing Caribbean Attorneys General to predict an end to hanging. Saint Lucia’s Attorney General, Petrus Compton, and his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Glenda Morean, comment as Tony Fraser gets reactions to the judgements at a Conference of Justice Ministers in Port of Spain (00:27-02:59)
3. The United States Supreme Court declared mandatory death sentences unconstitutional in 1972. Since then the United States has developed a system of degrees of murder for which different penalties apply. Bertram Niles asks Harold Lovell, a Lawyer in Antigua and Barbuda whether it is not extra-ordinary that the Caribbean had not reconsidered its own position until now (03:00-05:56)
4. Parliaments in at least three Eastern Caribbean countries consider legislation for hassle-free travel within the OECS. Debates take place in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Heads of government of the sub-region are pushing to implement freedom of movement among citizens as part of plan for an economic union. Here’s Jerry George (05:57-07:34)
5. Just three Caribbean countries, British Virgin Islands, Belize and the Bahamas, remain on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) uncooperative tax havens list and Caribbean islands call for a level playing field as OECD member countries Switzerland, Luxemburg, Portugal and Belgium have not joined their own organisation’s initiative. Bertram Niles talks with OECD spokesman Nicholas Bray concerning this (07:35-10:49)
6. Dominica’s Prime Minister Pierre Charles welcomes his country’s recent removal from the OECD blacklist and says that with the decline of the banana industry, services like tourism and the off-shore financial sector have become important to the country’s economy. Dominica is willing to take the necessary steps to get off the Financial Action Task Force’s blacklist concerning money laundering (10:50-12:01)
7. A Canadian national is on trial in the United States for breaking the trade embargo against Cuba. If convicted James Sabzali faces life imprisonment on charges of trading with an enemy of the United States. Ken Richards reports (12:02-13:44)
8. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) tells Haiti to pay twenty million dollars in loan arrears to the IDB and reform its economic practices before it can obtain low interest loans from the bank. Carol Orr reports (13:44-15:30)
2. The Privy Council in London upholds an OECS court ruling that the mandatory death penalty is in violation of the constitutions of six OECS countries and Belize causing Caribbean Attorneys General to predict an end to hanging. Saint Lucia’s Attorney General, Petrus Compton, and his Trinidad and Tobago counterpart, Glenda Morean, comment as Tony Fraser gets reactions to the judgements at a Conference of Justice Ministers in Port of Spain (00:27-02:59)
3. The United States Supreme Court declared mandatory death sentences unconstitutional in 1972. Since then the United States has developed a system of degrees of murder for which different penalties apply. Bertram Niles asks Harold Lovell, a Lawyer in Antigua and Barbuda whether it is not extra-ordinary that the Caribbean had not reconsidered its own position until now (03:00-05:56)
4. Parliaments in at least three Eastern Caribbean countries consider legislation for hassle-free travel within the OECS. Debates take place in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Heads of government of the sub-region are pushing to implement freedom of movement among citizens as part of plan for an economic union. Here’s Jerry George (05:57-07:34)
5. Just three Caribbean countries, British Virgin Islands, Belize and the Bahamas, remain on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) uncooperative tax havens list and Caribbean islands call for a level playing field as OECD member countries Switzerland, Luxemburg, Portugal and Belgium have not joined their own organisation’s initiative. Bertram Niles talks with OECD spokesman Nicholas Bray concerning this (07:35-10:49)
6. Dominica’s Prime Minister Pierre Charles welcomes his country’s recent removal from the OECD blacklist and says that with the decline of the banana industry, services like tourism and the off-shore financial sector have become important to the country’s economy. Dominica is willing to take the necessary steps to get off the Financial Action Task Force’s blacklist concerning money laundering (10:50-12:01)
7. A Canadian national is on trial in the United States for breaking the trade embargo against Cuba. If convicted James Sabzali faces life imprisonment on charges of trading with an enemy of the United States. Ken Richards reports (12:02-13:44)
8. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) tells Haiti to pay twenty million dollars in loan arrears to the IDB and reform its economic practices before it can obtain low interest loans from the bank. Carol Orr reports (13:44-15:30)