Caribbean Report 13-04-1999
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1999-04-13
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1. Headlines with anchor Keith Stone Greaves (00:29)
2. President Clinton plans to ask the US Congress for extra funding to pay for the cost of NATO campaign against Yugoslavia. Some of the money will be used to provide emergency aid for refugees. Keith Stone Greaves interviews Information Officer at the U.S. Southern Command in Miami Stephen Lucas on temporarily hosting 20,000 Albanian refugees at the US base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. BBC Paul Reynolds interviews dissident voices questioning the basis of operations against Yugoslavia, Susan Woodward Brookings Institute, State Department spokesman James Rubin, Arnold Cantor, Forum for International Policy and retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (00:30 – 07: 22)
3. In the US Virgin Islands officials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service investigate the detention of thirty-nine illegal Chinese immigrants in Saint Thomas. Franz Christian US Virgin Islands Acting Police Commissioner responds to questions on the latest influx into the US Virgin Islands and St. Croix (07: 23 – 09: 39)
4. The Venezuela Congress building was the venue for thousands of demonstrators supporting President Hugo Chavez demands for sweeping new powers to handle the country’s economic crisis. Opposition parties are appealing for international help to protect the country’s democracy after accusing Chavez of trying to institute a dictatorship. Central America Correspondent Peter Greste reports (09: 40 - 11: 38)
5. The recent dismissal in Antiguan of two top journalists have turned attention to existing level of press freedom in that country. Sun Sentinel editors Horace Helps and Louis Daniel were fired following their protest of interference in lead stories to reflect the newspaper support for the Antigua ruling party, the Antigua Labor Party ahead of the March 9 elections. Ken Richards reports on Antiguans concerns for press freedom in the island (11:39 - 13: 17)
6. International Francophone organisations meet to discuss free trade changes at the World Trade Organization, the banana trade war between the European Union and the US, developing countries role in drawing up new trade rules, debt reduction and the future of the Lome convention. Debbie Ransome reports (13:18 – 15:27)
2. President Clinton plans to ask the US Congress for extra funding to pay for the cost of NATO campaign against Yugoslavia. Some of the money will be used to provide emergency aid for refugees. Keith Stone Greaves interviews Information Officer at the U.S. Southern Command in Miami Stephen Lucas on temporarily hosting 20,000 Albanian refugees at the US base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. BBC Paul Reynolds interviews dissident voices questioning the basis of operations against Yugoslavia, Susan Woodward Brookings Institute, State Department spokesman James Rubin, Arnold Cantor, Forum for International Policy and retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (00:30 – 07: 22)
3. In the US Virgin Islands officials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service investigate the detention of thirty-nine illegal Chinese immigrants in Saint Thomas. Franz Christian US Virgin Islands Acting Police Commissioner responds to questions on the latest influx into the US Virgin Islands and St. Croix (07: 23 – 09: 39)
4. The Venezuela Congress building was the venue for thousands of demonstrators supporting President Hugo Chavez demands for sweeping new powers to handle the country’s economic crisis. Opposition parties are appealing for international help to protect the country’s democracy after accusing Chavez of trying to institute a dictatorship. Central America Correspondent Peter Greste reports (09: 40 - 11: 38)
5. The recent dismissal in Antiguan of two top journalists have turned attention to existing level of press freedom in that country. Sun Sentinel editors Horace Helps and Louis Daniel were fired following their protest of interference in lead stories to reflect the newspaper support for the Antigua ruling party, the Antigua Labor Party ahead of the March 9 elections. Ken Richards reports on Antiguans concerns for press freedom in the island (11:39 - 13: 17)
6. International Francophone organisations meet to discuss free trade changes at the World Trade Organization, the banana trade war between the European Union and the US, developing countries role in drawing up new trade rules, debt reduction and the future of the Lome convention. Debbie Ransome reports (13:18 – 15:27)