Caribbean Report 18-08-1992

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:52)
2. Calvin Howell, Executive Director of the Caribbean Conservation Association, raises concern over increased nuclear waste processing of plutonium in Europe as shipments of waste pass through Caribbean waters. Yvette Rowe gives details (00:53-03:08)
3. In an interview with correspondent Hugh Crosskill, deposed Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide maintains that the OAS must ensure the return of democracy to his country or lose credibility (03:09-08:28)
4. A small bomb explodes in a park opposite the home of Haiti’s Prime Minister Marc Bazin hours before the OAS team arrives. However, no injuries are reported (08:29-09:01)
5. In the Bahamas, Prime Minister Lynden Pindling and his party the Progressive Liberal Party seek a seventh victory at the country’s general elections on Wednesday (09:02-12:02)
6. St. Lucia’s Agriculture Minister Ira D’Auvergne takes banana farmers to task over the quality of the fruit produced for export. Correspondent Pete Ninvalle reports (12:03-14:43)

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