Caribbean Report 14-10-1998
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1998-10-14
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:23)
2. Caribbean leaders say nothing is new in the banana talks with the United States. Jamaica's State Minister in the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry Anthony Hilton is interviewed (00:24-03:26)
3. Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney General is again making it clear that the Privy Council's judgement on the case of two Trinidadian death row prisoners could speed up their efforts to set up a Caribbean Court of Appeal. At the same time Mr Maharaj was briefing journalist in London, the Barbadian Attorney General David Simmons was telling law graduates in Trinidad and Tobago that the poor hanging lobby had hijacked the argument for the Caribbean Supreme Court. Attorney General David Simmons is interviewed and Trinidad Guardian Francis Joseph reports (03:27-07:57)
4. In Dominica, the Editor of the Independent Newspaper Charles James and Chief Reporter Helena Duran had their employment terminated today. They were both dismissed for gross misconduct. Ken Richard reports from Rousseau (07:58-09:18)
5. Montserrat's volcano is still doing its own thing. Would things get back to normal? Chief Scientist Richie Robertson and Acting Chief Minister of Montserrat Rupert Weekes are interviewed (09:19-11:29)
6. Three weeks after Hurricane George devastated the Dominican Republic in neighbouring Haiti a debate is continuing about the true figure for casualties. Jean-Michel Caroit reports (11:30-14:45)
7. United Nations General Assembly has condemned the United States economic embargo on Cuba (14:46-15:20)
2. Caribbean leaders say nothing is new in the banana talks with the United States. Jamaica's State Minister in the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry Anthony Hilton is interviewed (00:24-03:26)
3. Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney General is again making it clear that the Privy Council's judgement on the case of two Trinidadian death row prisoners could speed up their efforts to set up a Caribbean Court of Appeal. At the same time Mr Maharaj was briefing journalist in London, the Barbadian Attorney General David Simmons was telling law graduates in Trinidad and Tobago that the poor hanging lobby had hijacked the argument for the Caribbean Supreme Court. Attorney General David Simmons is interviewed and Trinidad Guardian Francis Joseph reports (03:27-07:57)
4. In Dominica, the Editor of the Independent Newspaper Charles James and Chief Reporter Helena Duran had their employment terminated today. They were both dismissed for gross misconduct. Ken Richard reports from Rousseau (07:58-09:18)
5. Montserrat's volcano is still doing its own thing. Would things get back to normal? Chief Scientist Richie Robertson and Acting Chief Minister of Montserrat Rupert Weekes are interviewed (09:19-11:29)
6. Three weeks after Hurricane George devastated the Dominican Republic in neighbouring Haiti a debate is continuing about the true figure for casualties. Jean-Michel Caroit reports (11:30-14:45)
7. United Nations General Assembly has condemned the United States economic embargo on Cuba (14:46-15:20)