Caribbean Report 28-09-1992

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:30)
2. Sharief Khan reports on the special voting by the security forces taking place in Guyana. (00:31-02:21)
3. Sandra Baptiste speaks with Rupert Roopnarine, leader of the Working People’s alliance about the barring of the party’s agents from polling stations during the voting of security forces. (02:22-04:51)
4. Former Guyanese attorney general, Fenton Ramsahoye says that problems surrounding misprinted ballot papers should not affect the validity of the poll. (04:52-07:57)
5. Author, Wayne Smith says that even though US attempts to tighten the embargo on Cuba won the support of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Torricelli bill flies in the face of international trading practise. (07:58-11:03)
6. Dr. Marshall Hall, Chairman of the Jamaica Banana Association, says his organization is giving its full support to criticism of the US administration by the four prime ministers of the Windward Islands who claim that the US is bent on destroying their economies with proposed quota arrangements for their bananas. (11:04-14:48)

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