Caribbean Report 15-02-1996
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1996-02-15
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:31)
2. President Cheddi Jagan denies that his government policies are anti-Afro Guyanese. President Cheddi Jagan, Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte, Journalist Rickey Singh and Anthropologist Professor Ken Tracey are interviewed (00:32:07:27)
3. Trinidadian calypsonians are under fire on the race question. Professor Ken Ramchand is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (07:28-09:35)
4. Searches in the Dominican Republic have located the flight recorder from the airplane that crashed last week killing all of the one hundred and eighty-nine passengers. Dominica President Joaquin Balaguer has declared Thursday a day of national mourning in honour of the victims (09:36-10:02)
5. The hope for foreign investment in Guyana has been slow to materialise but a US based company has come up with a plan that it hopes will change that. Leslie Goffe reports (10:03-11:41)
6. The West Indies cricket team are in confident mode as they prepare to open the World Cup campaign (11:42-13:50)
7. British heavy weight boxer Lennox Lewis who is presently in Jamaica says he is confident that he was not exposed to HIV in his fight against Tommy Morrison who has been tested positive for aids (13:51-15:19)
2. President Cheddi Jagan denies that his government policies are anti-Afro Guyanese. President Cheddi Jagan, Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte, Journalist Rickey Singh and Anthropologist Professor Ken Tracey are interviewed (00:32:07:27)
3. Trinidadian calypsonians are under fire on the race question. Professor Ken Ramchand is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (07:28-09:35)
4. Searches in the Dominican Republic have located the flight recorder from the airplane that crashed last week killing all of the one hundred and eighty-nine passengers. Dominica President Joaquin Balaguer has declared Thursday a day of national mourning in honour of the victims (09:36-10:02)
5. The hope for foreign investment in Guyana has been slow to materialise but a US based company has come up with a plan that it hopes will change that. Leslie Goffe reports (10:03-11:41)
6. The West Indies cricket team are in confident mode as they prepare to open the World Cup campaign (11:42-13:50)
7. British heavy weight boxer Lennox Lewis who is presently in Jamaica says he is confident that he was not exposed to HIV in his fight against Tommy Morrison who has been tested positive for aids (13:51-15:19)