Caribbean Report 18-05-1990

Abstract

Forty-eight hours after the polls closed in the Dominican Republic, the population is still awaiting the results of the general elections. The ballots are showing an extremely close poll with Joaquin Balaguer slightly ahead after 80% of the votes are counted. Secondly, the judicial enquiry into the Antiguan arms scandal commences on June 1st and Lewis Blom-Cooper, British Queen’s Counsel, will lead the probe. Following the Financial News, Jamaica completed the first stage of a campaign designed to promote the sales of fruits, vegetables, tin products, coffee, rum and cigars in Britain. The objective of the campaign is to establish the UK market as a platform to the European Single Market community in 1992. The stories of Caribbean interest in the British press cover the Afro-Caribbean businesses in London and the positive and negative impact of black people broadcasted on British television. The report ends with the workshop of the members of the public and private sectors of Trinidad and Tobago discussing the allocation of an eighty million dollar grant from the European Community.