Caribbean Report 18-01-2001
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2001-01-18
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)
2. Caricom and Canada are about to discuss trade security and other mutual concerns. Senior Business Reporter of the Jamaican Gleaner Sam Davis reports (00:26-03:25)
3. European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has been given the go ahead to speed up the process by which some of the world's poorest countries can gain better access to the European Union market. Emma Joseph reports (03:26-05:00)
4. Arguments on Guyana's immediate future continues in the courts there. Colin Smith reports from Georgetown (05:01-06:39)
5. Vincentian experience in preparing for March elections. Pro-Unity and Labour Party Lawyer and Journalist Colin Williams is interviewed (06:40-09:44)
6. There is optimism in some Caribbean diplomatic circles in the United States that the incoming Bushe administration will usher in upbeat United States Caribbean relations. Jamaican Ambassador Richard Bernal and Sarah Sloan, International Action Centre are interviewed (09:45-12:53)
7. Barbadian sport consultant has taken up the case of three senior professional cricketers from Montserrat. Sport Consultant Frank Brathwaite is interviewed and Keith 'Stone' Greaves reports (12:54-14:47)
8. Columbian police say they and their colleagues in the United States have broken up a major heroin smuggling ring after six months of investigations (14:48-15:27)
2. Caricom and Canada are about to discuss trade security and other mutual concerns. Senior Business Reporter of the Jamaican Gleaner Sam Davis reports (00:26-03:25)
3. European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has been given the go ahead to speed up the process by which some of the world's poorest countries can gain better access to the European Union market. Emma Joseph reports (03:26-05:00)
4. Arguments on Guyana's immediate future continues in the courts there. Colin Smith reports from Georgetown (05:01-06:39)
5. Vincentian experience in preparing for March elections. Pro-Unity and Labour Party Lawyer and Journalist Colin Williams is interviewed (06:40-09:44)
6. There is optimism in some Caribbean diplomatic circles in the United States that the incoming Bushe administration will usher in upbeat United States Caribbean relations. Jamaican Ambassador Richard Bernal and Sarah Sloan, International Action Centre are interviewed (09:45-12:53)
7. Barbadian sport consultant has taken up the case of three senior professional cricketers from Montserrat. Sport Consultant Frank Brathwaite is interviewed and Keith 'Stone' Greaves reports (12:54-14:47)
8. Columbian police say they and their colleagues in the United States have broken up a major heroin smuggling ring after six months of investigations (14:48-15:27)