Caribbean Report 24-09-1997
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1997-09-24
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:27)
2. Antigua's government and opposition take their fight over the Guiana Island project to court. Opposition Leader, Baldwin Spencer and Prime Minister Lester Bird are interviewed (00:28-04:44)
3. Redundancy, the option being offered to half of Montserrat's teachers. Colin Riley, President, Montserrat Teachers Union is interviewed. James White, Jr reports (04:45-06:57)
4. The disputes settlement body of the World Trade Organisation is expected to issue a final ruling tomorrow on the WTO report into Europe's banana regime. Casskius Elias of St. Lucia is interviewed (06:58-09:21)
5. Caribbean and other representatives of the United Nations in New York are disucssing what has been described as far reaching proposals to reform the United Nations. If Kofi Annan,Secretary-General of the United Nations and the United States have their way the UN would become a leaner, less bureaucratic and less costly organisation. Ambassador Carlston Boucher is interviewed (09:22-12:14)
6. A British health team has returned from a brief visit to Montserrat. Dr Noel Lewis is interviewed and Moya Thomas reports (12:15-15:27)
2. Antigua's government and opposition take their fight over the Guiana Island project to court. Opposition Leader, Baldwin Spencer and Prime Minister Lester Bird are interviewed (00:28-04:44)
3. Redundancy, the option being offered to half of Montserrat's teachers. Colin Riley, President, Montserrat Teachers Union is interviewed. James White, Jr reports (04:45-06:57)
4. The disputes settlement body of the World Trade Organisation is expected to issue a final ruling tomorrow on the WTO report into Europe's banana regime. Casskius Elias of St. Lucia is interviewed (06:58-09:21)
5. Caribbean and other representatives of the United Nations in New York are disucssing what has been described as far reaching proposals to reform the United Nations. If Kofi Annan,Secretary-General of the United Nations and the United States have their way the UN would become a leaner, less bureaucratic and less costly organisation. Ambassador Carlston Boucher is interviewed (09:22-12:14)
6. A British health team has returned from a brief visit to Montserrat. Dr Noel Lewis is interviewed and Moya Thomas reports (12:15-15:27)