Caribbean Report 10-12-1993
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1993-12-10
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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Headlines with Yvette Rowe (00:29)
1. British Airways is the latest prospective international partner for BIWA – Debbie Ransome reports (00:30 -03:00)
2. Trinidad and Tobago’s Attorney General announced that 50 prisoners who have been on death row for more than five years will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, in keeping with the Privy Council ruling in London. Dennis Daly QC - Jamaican based human rights lawyer gives his views on the ruling (03:01 - 04:34)
3. Trinidad and Tobago is to introduce a catastrophe reserve fund to help local insurance companies to help with the problem of reinsurance – Ray Sumairsingh President of ATTIC explains the details of this proposals. And, Dennis Lala, Chairman of the Jamaican based ICWI says that such a fund has implications but is not impossible (04:35 -06:58)
4. Tony Fraser reports on the views of regional experts addressing the issues of how does the Caribbean deal with the issues of a population explosion coupled with a loss of the region’s skilled people at an international conference on population and development (06:59 - 09:30)
5. In Britain and the United States political pressure is mounting against single parent families. Charles Murray is considered a guru among academics – he argues that illegitimacy is the most pressing social problem of our time. Helen O’Connell – Education Coordinator of One World Action gives her opposing views to Murray’s proposals – correspondent Hugh Crosskill report s to Yvette Rowe (09:31 -14:57)
1. British Airways is the latest prospective international partner for BIWA – Debbie Ransome reports (00:30 -03:00)
2. Trinidad and Tobago’s Attorney General announced that 50 prisoners who have been on death row for more than five years will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, in keeping with the Privy Council ruling in London. Dennis Daly QC - Jamaican based human rights lawyer gives his views on the ruling (03:01 - 04:34)
3. Trinidad and Tobago is to introduce a catastrophe reserve fund to help local insurance companies to help with the problem of reinsurance – Ray Sumairsingh President of ATTIC explains the details of this proposals. And, Dennis Lala, Chairman of the Jamaican based ICWI says that such a fund has implications but is not impossible (04:35 -06:58)
4. Tony Fraser reports on the views of regional experts addressing the issues of how does the Caribbean deal with the issues of a population explosion coupled with a loss of the region’s skilled people at an international conference on population and development (06:59 - 09:30)
5. In Britain and the United States political pressure is mounting against single parent families. Charles Murray is considered a guru among academics – he argues that illegitimacy is the most pressing social problem of our time. Helen O’Connell – Education Coordinator of One World Action gives her opposing views to Murray’s proposals – correspondent Hugh Crosskill report s to Yvette Rowe (09:31 -14:57)