Caribbean Report 21-01-2002

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:29)
2. Facing mounting losses since September 11th BWIA announces that it will be cutting staff and aircrafts since cost saving measures taken since September 11th, have proven inadequate (00:30-02:30)
3. At a meeting of sixty delegates from fourteen countries gathered in Barbados to examine constitutional reform in the region, Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonzales warns against radical changes in Caribbean constitutions. David Ellis reports from Bridgetown (02:31-04:25)
4. Antigua and Barbuda reports a grievance with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on the organisation’s tax haven initiative, but so far, they have not signed a form of commitment to end what the OECD calls harmful tax competition. Bertram Niles interviews Ronald Sanders (04:26-07:47)
5. Haitian President Jean Bertram Aristide accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Jean Marie Chérestal. Orin Gordon reports (07:48-09:30)
6. After just twenty one days of the New Year Jamaica records close to sixty murders and as we note these statistics the country’s two major political parties announce their crime fighting strategies (09:31-12:25)
7. US army officials say that there are at least ten different nationalities included in the hundred and forty Taliban and Al-Qaeda suspects arrested in Afghanistan being held at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Ken Richards reports (12:26-13:37)
8. Martinique begins celebrations to mark the hundredth anniversary of the twentieth century’s deadliest volcanic eruption. Emma Joseph reports (13:38-15:27)

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