Caribbean Report 03-07-1989
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1989-07-03
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:29)
2. Threat of a boycott hangs over the Commonwealth games. Political action is to disrupt the games schedule for New Zealand in 1990 if British Rugby players accept an invitation to take part in the South African board centenary celebrations. Rather than enforce the boycott, African nations would first press for the exclusion of the United Kingdom (00:30-02:59)
3. In Cuba, the trial of top army and state security officers for involvement in drug trafficking and corruption is into its third day. Lionel Martin reports (03:00-04:10)
4. Financial news (04:11-05:42)
5. The price of coffee slumps dramatically in anticipation of bad news emerging from the International Coffee Organization meeting in London. A decision to suspend all export quotas as of midnight will allow exporters to ship as much as they want into an already glutted market. Hugh Crosskill interviews Robin Stainer (05:43-07:52)
6. Jamaica's PM, Michael Manley gives the keynote address at the tenth Caribbean Heads of Govenment meeting in Grenada. Included in the agenda are issues such as, Haiti, drugs, the dismantling of trade barriers and the preparations ahead for the Single European Market in 1992. Hugh Crosskill interviews Alan Tomlinson (07:53-11:34)
7. As a news editor and six other staffers are fired, a revolt by workers of Haiti's radical Catholic radio station, Radio Soleil has been effectively put down by the Conservative Catholic Hierarchy. Hugh Crosskill interviews Michael Norton (11:35-14:48)
2. Threat of a boycott hangs over the Commonwealth games. Political action is to disrupt the games schedule for New Zealand in 1990 if British Rugby players accept an invitation to take part in the South African board centenary celebrations. Rather than enforce the boycott, African nations would first press for the exclusion of the United Kingdom (00:30-02:59)
3. In Cuba, the trial of top army and state security officers for involvement in drug trafficking and corruption is into its third day. Lionel Martin reports (03:00-04:10)
4. Financial news (04:11-05:42)
5. The price of coffee slumps dramatically in anticipation of bad news emerging from the International Coffee Organization meeting in London. A decision to suspend all export quotas as of midnight will allow exporters to ship as much as they want into an already glutted market. Hugh Crosskill interviews Robin Stainer (05:43-07:52)
6. Jamaica's PM, Michael Manley gives the keynote address at the tenth Caribbean Heads of Govenment meeting in Grenada. Included in the agenda are issues such as, Haiti, drugs, the dismantling of trade barriers and the preparations ahead for the Single European Market in 1992. Hugh Crosskill interviews Alan Tomlinson (07:53-11:34)
7. As a news editor and six other staffers are fired, a revolt by workers of Haiti's radical Catholic radio station, Radio Soleil has been effectively put down by the Conservative Catholic Hierarchy. Hugh Crosskill interviews Michael Norton (11:35-14:48)