Caribbean Report 03-06-1998
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1998-06-03
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1. Headlines with Orin Gordon (00:00-00:29)
2. Guyana's opposition party, PNC leader Desmond Hoyte is insisting that nothing has changed despite the findings of the CARICOM Audit team that found no evidence of fraudulent ballots. Interview with political analyst Freddy Kissoon (00:30-04:50)
3. The Vice President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Robert Goldman states that Trinidad and Tobago's withdrawal from the convention is not a simple matter since it would have to consider its very position within the OAS (04:51-06:02)
4. An international three-day conference to examine ways on checking the rise in crime and violence in the Caribbean and Central America has opened in El Salvador. Caribbean countries are increasingly worried about violent crime (06:03-06:19)
5. Millions of immigrants in the US could be frozen out of American census figures. President Clinton argues for a new method of counting the number of Americans in the population by using statistical sampling (06:20-07:51)
6. Jamaican football squad received a warm send off from Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Simon Crosskill reports on team selection and what players can expect as a reward, if they won the World Cup (07:52-11:36)
7. The Guyanese government and Opposition differed on whether the audit up held the December election results. Interview with Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte (11:37-15:15)
2. Guyana's opposition party, PNC leader Desmond Hoyte is insisting that nothing has changed despite the findings of the CARICOM Audit team that found no evidence of fraudulent ballots. Interview with political analyst Freddy Kissoon (00:30-04:50)
3. The Vice President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Robert Goldman states that Trinidad and Tobago's withdrawal from the convention is not a simple matter since it would have to consider its very position within the OAS (04:51-06:02)
4. An international three-day conference to examine ways on checking the rise in crime and violence in the Caribbean and Central America has opened in El Salvador. Caribbean countries are increasingly worried about violent crime (06:03-06:19)
5. Millions of immigrants in the US could be frozen out of American census figures. President Clinton argues for a new method of counting the number of Americans in the population by using statistical sampling (06:20-07:51)
6. Jamaican football squad received a warm send off from Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Simon Crosskill reports on team selection and what players can expect as a reward, if they won the World Cup (07:52-11:36)
7. The Guyanese government and Opposition differed on whether the audit up held the December election results. Interview with Opposition Leader Desmond Hoyte (11:37-15:15)