Caribbean Report 17-03-1995

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Police in the British Virgin Islands have made one of the region's biggest cocaine seizures. The debate on the controversial issue of independence of Bermuda began in the country's Parliament. The Trinidad and Tobago government is seeking to end constitutional motions to Britain's Privy Council. The country's Attorney General Keith Sobion argued that this is in response to concern over the abuse of constitutional motions by prisoners on death row. Cuba's President Fidel Castro returned home following a visit to France during which he gave a tentative agreement to a human rights probe. Rosie Hayes reports on reactions in Cuba to a possible human rights probe. In Haiti there is a wave of petty crime with signs that the population is applying its own form of justice. Meanwhile, journalist Michael Norton reports on what is being done officially to tackle the growing rise in crime in Haiti.

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1. Headlines with Carol Orr (00:00-00:28)
2. Police in the British Virgin Islands have made one of the region's biggest cocaine seizures (00:29-02:29)
3. In Bermuda, a debate on the controversial issue of independence has began (02:30-04:08)
4. The Trinidad and Tobago government seeks to end constitutional motions to Britain's Privy Council by legislation (04:09-06:21)
5. President Fidel Castro returned home following a visit to France during which he gave a tentative agreement to a human rights probe (06:22-09:23)
6. An acute sense of insecurity is besieging Haiti (09:24-12:39)
7. Michael Norton reports on what is being done officially to tackle the growing rise in crime in Haiti (12:40-15:07)

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