Caribbean Report 15-05-1992
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1992-05-15
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:34)
2. While on a visit to Europe, Guyana’s opposition leader Cheddi Jagan asks European countries to consider sanctions against Guyana if necessary, as a means of forcing free and fair elections (00:35-03:22)
3. Having completed his fact finding mission to Haiti, American human rights lawyer Bill O’Neil discloses that Roman Catholic nuns and priests working there are upset over the Vatican’s recognition of the de facto regime (03:26-07:05)
4. Members of the West Indian Commission to publish final report having completed a meeting in Barbados. Director General of the Commission’s Secretariat, Donald Brice says the report will be ready for presentation to the CARICOM leaders before the July summit in Port of Spain (07:06-07:35)
5. Moves by the US, Canada and Mexico towards the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have overshadowed the Caribbean Basin Initiative introduced in 1982. Correspondent Hugh Crosskill invite comments from Dr. Anthony Payne of the University of Sheffield and Lorimer Mackenzie, head of the Economic Unit of the European Commission (07:36-11:56)
6. Caribbean weather will be monitored by European satellite for the next few years following the failure of American equipment that used to do the job. Correspondent Yvette Rowe reports (12:00-14:23)
7. Jamaica’s budget presentation has been tentatively rescheduled for May 26th (14:24-14:36)
2. While on a visit to Europe, Guyana’s opposition leader Cheddi Jagan asks European countries to consider sanctions against Guyana if necessary, as a means of forcing free and fair elections (00:35-03:22)
3. Having completed his fact finding mission to Haiti, American human rights lawyer Bill O’Neil discloses that Roman Catholic nuns and priests working there are upset over the Vatican’s recognition of the de facto regime (03:26-07:05)
4. Members of the West Indian Commission to publish final report having completed a meeting in Barbados. Director General of the Commission’s Secretariat, Donald Brice says the report will be ready for presentation to the CARICOM leaders before the July summit in Port of Spain (07:06-07:35)
5. Moves by the US, Canada and Mexico towards the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have overshadowed the Caribbean Basin Initiative introduced in 1982. Correspondent Hugh Crosskill invite comments from Dr. Anthony Payne of the University of Sheffield and Lorimer Mackenzie, head of the Economic Unit of the European Commission (07:36-11:56)
6. Caribbean weather will be monitored by European satellite for the next few years following the failure of American equipment that used to do the job. Correspondent Yvette Rowe reports (12:00-14:23)
7. Jamaica’s budget presentation has been tentatively rescheduled for May 26th (14:24-14:36)