Caribbean Report 22-01-2002
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2002-01-22
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)
2. Regional airline BWIA again declines to say just how many of its more than two thousand five hundred workers will get the axe because of its plans to cut staff (00:26-03:28)
3. Luxemburg a member of the OECD is labelled an obstacle to the international fight against money laundering, and this conclusion by French legislators prompts renewed calls from a grouping of Commonwealth off-shore centres for a level playing field in the OECD’s anti-tax initiative (03:29-06:12)
4. The head of the World Trade Organization, Mike Moore, warns that squabbles over key posts could prevent a new round of global open trade negotiations from finishing in three years as scheduled (06:13-06:53)
5. The Organization of American States signals its intentions to have a more permanent presence in Haiti but initiatives to assist with this country’s political impasse have so far failed to convince the governing and opposition parties to resolve their differences over the May 2000 elections (06:54-09:30)
6. Sixty delegates from fourteen countries wrap up three days of talks in Barbados on the question of constitutional reform. Albert Ramdin, advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States comments (09:31-11:59)
7. Cuba is reconsidering establishing diplomatic relations with the United States as long as no conditions are set regarding free elections. Emma Joseph reports (12:00-13:37)
8. In cricket, opener Sherwin Campbell is recalled to the West Indies Cricket team for their series against Pakistan starting in Sharjah at the end of January 2002. Bertram Niles reports (13:38-15:28)
2. Regional airline BWIA again declines to say just how many of its more than two thousand five hundred workers will get the axe because of its plans to cut staff (00:26-03:28)
3. Luxemburg a member of the OECD is labelled an obstacle to the international fight against money laundering, and this conclusion by French legislators prompts renewed calls from a grouping of Commonwealth off-shore centres for a level playing field in the OECD’s anti-tax initiative (03:29-06:12)
4. The head of the World Trade Organization, Mike Moore, warns that squabbles over key posts could prevent a new round of global open trade negotiations from finishing in three years as scheduled (06:13-06:53)
5. The Organization of American States signals its intentions to have a more permanent presence in Haiti but initiatives to assist with this country’s political impasse have so far failed to convince the governing and opposition parties to resolve their differences over the May 2000 elections (06:54-09:30)
6. Sixty delegates from fourteen countries wrap up three days of talks in Barbados on the question of constitutional reform. Albert Ramdin, advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States comments (09:31-11:59)
7. Cuba is reconsidering establishing diplomatic relations with the United States as long as no conditions are set regarding free elections. Emma Joseph reports (12:00-13:37)
8. In cricket, opener Sherwin Campbell is recalled to the West Indies Cricket team for their series against Pakistan starting in Sharjah at the end of January 2002. Bertram Niles reports (13:38-15:28)