Caribbean Report 14-10-1991
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1991-10-14
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:36)
2. Cuba's Communist Party has elected a new and younger Central Committee which is widely regarded as one of the main outcomes of the Party's annual Congress which ends today. The Central Committee has also been granted special powers to direct national policy at a critical time in the country's history. Interview with Osvaldo Cardenas, Cuban Research Institute on the USA at the University of Havana (00:37-03:05:33)
3. Deposed Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide is still in Venezuela. Provisional President, Joseph Nerette is pleading with political leaders in Haiti to join a new cabinet and attempted to put a cabinet together in Parliament where only about half of the eighty-one MPs were in attendance (05:34-06:11)
4. A United Nations official is due to visit Guyana today with computer software to backup the work of the Elections Commission as the countdown to polling day continues. The date of the election is yet to be announced. Sharief Khan reports from Georgetown that there is considerable doubt over whether the flawed voters list can be cleaned up by Saturday (06:12-08:33)
5. In an interview with Hugh Crosskill, Sir Shridath Ramphal states that Guyana has been the aberration as far as the Caribbean's democratic traditions are concerned and is confident that the upcoming elections in Guyana will herald that country's return to the fold (08:34-11:31)
6. Last Friday, British Labour Party MP, George Foulkes criticized the Caribbean for relaxing pressure on European governments as the region seeks a guarantee of a secure market for its bananas after the European Community becomes a single trading block in 1992. Whilst Ralph Bhola, President of the Windward Islands Banana Producers Association, says that they have been pressing forward and are beginning to see results. Ralph Bhola is interviewed by Pat Whitehorne (11:32-14:50)
2. Cuba's Communist Party has elected a new and younger Central Committee which is widely regarded as one of the main outcomes of the Party's annual Congress which ends today. The Central Committee has also been granted special powers to direct national policy at a critical time in the country's history. Interview with Osvaldo Cardenas, Cuban Research Institute on the USA at the University of Havana (00:37-03:05:33)
3. Deposed Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide is still in Venezuela. Provisional President, Joseph Nerette is pleading with political leaders in Haiti to join a new cabinet and attempted to put a cabinet together in Parliament where only about half of the eighty-one MPs were in attendance (05:34-06:11)
4. A United Nations official is due to visit Guyana today with computer software to backup the work of the Elections Commission as the countdown to polling day continues. The date of the election is yet to be announced. Sharief Khan reports from Georgetown that there is considerable doubt over whether the flawed voters list can be cleaned up by Saturday (06:12-08:33)
5. In an interview with Hugh Crosskill, Sir Shridath Ramphal states that Guyana has been the aberration as far as the Caribbean's democratic traditions are concerned and is confident that the upcoming elections in Guyana will herald that country's return to the fold (08:34-11:31)
6. Last Friday, British Labour Party MP, George Foulkes criticized the Caribbean for relaxing pressure on European governments as the region seeks a guarantee of a secure market for its bananas after the European Community becomes a single trading block in 1992. Whilst Ralph Bhola, President of the Windward Islands Banana Producers Association, says that they have been pressing forward and are beginning to see results. Ralph Bhola is interviewed by Pat Whitehorne (11:32-14:50)