Caribbean Report 12-03-2002

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SpecialCollections.repositoryAll 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.contributorThe University of the West Indiesen_US
dc.contributor.authorNiles, Bertram (anchor)
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Tony (correspondent)
dc.contributor.authorCompton, Petrus (speaker)
dc.contributor.authorMorean-Phillip, Glenda Patricia (speaker)
dc.contributor.authorLovell, Harold (interviewee)
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Jerry (correspondent)
dc.contributor.authorBray, Nicholas (interviewee)
dc.contributor.authorCharles, Pierre (speaker)
dc.contributor.authorRichards, Ken (correspondent)
dc.contributor.authorOrr, Carol (correspondent)
dc.coverage.spatialCaribbean Area.en_US
dc.creatorThe British Broadcasting Corporationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T17:29:10Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T17:29:10Z
dc.date.issued2002-03-12
dc.description.tableofcontents1. Headlines (00:00-00:26)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents2. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents3. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents4. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents5. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents6. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents7. 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)en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents8. 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)en_US
dc.formatStereo 192 bit rate MP3;44,100 Mega bits;16 biten_US
dc.format.extent15 min. 30 sec.en_US
dc.format.mediumSound, mp3en_US
dc.identifier.otherCAR3578en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/47146
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe British Broadcasting Corporationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe BBC Caribbean Archives Collection 1988 - 2011en_US
dc.rightsCopyright British Broadcasting Corporationen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsAccess 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.lcshPrivy councils -- Great Britainen_US
dc.subject.lcshCapital punishment -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.subject.lcshCapital punishment -- Belizeen_US
dc.subject.lcshJudgments -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.subject.lcshConstitutions -- Belizeen_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States Supreme Courten_US
dc.subject.lcshMurder -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshCapital punishment -- Caribbean Areaen_US
dc.subject.lcshCapital punishment -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshInternational economic integration -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.subject.lcshEmigration and immigration -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.subject.lcshEmigration and immigration law -- Caribbean Areaen_US
dc.subject.lcshOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmenten_US
dc.subject.lcshTax havens -- Caribbean Areaen_US
dc.subject.lcshEquality before the lawen_US
dc.subject.lcshTax havens -- Switzerlanden_US
dc.subject.lcshTax havens -- Luxembourgen_US
dc.subject.lcshTax havens -- Portugalen_US
dc.subject.lcshTax havens -- Belgiumen_US
dc.subject.lcshMoney laundering -- Dominicaen_US
dc.subject.lcshEconomy -- Dominicaen_US
dc.subject.lcshFinancial Action Task Forceen_US
dc.subject.lcshLife imprisonment -- United Statesen_US
dc.subject.lcshEmbargo -- Cubaen_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Canadaen_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Cubaen_US
dc.subject.lcshInter-American Development Banken_US
dc.subject.lcshLoans -- Haitien_US
dc.subject.lcshEconomics -- Haitien_US
dc.subject.lcshTravel -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.subject.lcshTravel -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesen_US
dc.subject.lcshTravel -- Saint Luciaen_US
dc.subject.lcshTravel -- Saint Kitts and Nevisen_US
dc.subject.otherFourth Meeting Of Ministers Of Justice Or Of Ministers Or Attorneys General Of The Americas (March 10-13, 2002 : Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)en_US
dc.subject.otherBlacklists -- Dominicaen_US
dc.subject.otherSabzali, Jamesen_US
dc.subject.otherFree movement -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesen_US
dc.subject.otherFree movement -- Saint Luciaen_US
dc.subject.otherFree movement -- Saint Kitts and Nevisen_US
dc.subject.otherFree movement -- O.E.C.S. (Organization)en_US
dc.titleCaribbean Report 12-03-2002
dc.typeRecording, oralen_US

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