Caribbean Report 20-11-1997
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1997-11-20
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)
2. Louis Farrakhan plans a controversial tour to include Cuba and Iraq. An American Dirty Trick campaign in the 1960's against Fidel Castro shows that the Kennedy's administration conspired to accuse Cuba of sabotage in case a historic space mission failed. The human rights organisation, Amnesty International has asked the Cuban government to release a local doctor, Dr Desi Mondoza Rivero who faces a possible thirteen years sentence. Professor Basil Wilson, City University, New York is interviewed and Leslie Goffe reports (00:36-06:03)
3. Guyana's Elections Commission is taken to court. The Elections Commission Chairman Mr Doodnauth Singh is interviewed and Colin Smith reports (06:04-08:25)
4. A former Guyanese jurist Mohammed Shihanuddin has been appointed vice-president of the UN tribunal looking into war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia (08:26-09:07)
5. Barbados Tourism Minister Billie Miller is hoping that the adverse publicity from tourist taking ill in the Dominican Republic does not affect tourism in other Caribbean counrties. Tourism Minister Billie Miller is interviewed (09:08-10:59)
6. Today Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are celebrating their 50th anniversary and foreigh dignataries are taking part in the celebrations (10:60-11:38)
7. The West Indies ponders its heavy defeat by Pakistan and a fresh call for Lara for captain. Manager Clive Lloyd and Barbados Commentator Andrew Mason are interviewed (11:39-15:28)
2. Louis Farrakhan plans a controversial tour to include Cuba and Iraq. An American Dirty Trick campaign in the 1960's against Fidel Castro shows that the Kennedy's administration conspired to accuse Cuba of sabotage in case a historic space mission failed. The human rights organisation, Amnesty International has asked the Cuban government to release a local doctor, Dr Desi Mondoza Rivero who faces a possible thirteen years sentence. Professor Basil Wilson, City University, New York is interviewed and Leslie Goffe reports (00:36-06:03)
3. Guyana's Elections Commission is taken to court. The Elections Commission Chairman Mr Doodnauth Singh is interviewed and Colin Smith reports (06:04-08:25)
4. A former Guyanese jurist Mohammed Shihanuddin has been appointed vice-president of the UN tribunal looking into war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia (08:26-09:07)
5. Barbados Tourism Minister Billie Miller is hoping that the adverse publicity from tourist taking ill in the Dominican Republic does not affect tourism in other Caribbean counrties. Tourism Minister Billie Miller is interviewed (09:08-10:59)
6. Today Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are celebrating their 50th anniversary and foreigh dignataries are taking part in the celebrations (10:60-11:38)
7. The West Indies ponders its heavy defeat by Pakistan and a fresh call for Lara for captain. Manager Clive Lloyd and Barbados Commentator Andrew Mason are interviewed (11:39-15:28)