Caribbean Report 17-04-1996

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:30)
2. OECS ambassadors in Washington increase lobbying efforts for the EU banana quota. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador to the United States Kingsley Layne is interviewed 00:32-03:22)
3. The United States State Department downplays reports of a cut in American aid to Haiti. A US State Department spokesman Glyn Davies is interviewed (03:23-07:25)
4. Honduras has granted political asylum to Haiti's former national police chief Michel Francois and the ex-mayor of Port-au-Prince Franck Romain. Carol Orr reports (07:26-08:53)
5. The United States has launched its most far reaching attempt yet to stop the flood of illegal drugs entering the country from the Caribbean. Leslie Goffe reports (08:54-11:01)
6. The Royal family boost the cause of the Barbadian Republican Movement. Dr Richie Haynes Leader of the Opposition National Democratic Party is interviewed (11:02-15:18)

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