Caribbean Report 21-12-1993
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1993-12-21
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Headlines with Carol Orr (00:28)
1. British politicians and pressure groups are protesting over new European immigration proposals. Don Flynn, Policy Officer, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants gives his perspective on the rationale for the new regime and the implications for some Caribbean and European nations based on the new plans – Debbie Ransome reports (00:29 -06:18)
2. The Cuban Public Health Ministry has announced a major policy change towards HIV positive persons in that they would be no longer be automatically be placed in sanitariums. The enforcement of the policy according to statistics seems to have curbed the rise of HIV in Cuba – Lionel Martin reports (06:19 -08:56)
3. Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been giving his assessment of US President Bill Clinton and the collapse of communism in relation to the future of Cuba and his role as a symbol of the revolution – Simon Deering reports (08:57 -11:33)
4. Hundreds of Guyanese nationals living in North America and planning to spend the Christmas holidays at home are having a hard time due to a series of aircraft mechanical problems by the airline Sharif Khan – reports (11:34 - 13:07)
5. A black mother and her two sons who claimed that they were unlawfully humiliated – family members were brutally assaulted and wrongfully imprisoned eight years ago during the Broadwater Farm riots, Tottenham London have won substantial damages in court in London. The family’s lawyer Raju Bhatt said the damages were a reflection on the level of police misconduct. Beverly Scott says that she can never trust the police again (13:08 -15:09)
1. British politicians and pressure groups are protesting over new European immigration proposals. Don Flynn, Policy Officer, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants gives his perspective on the rationale for the new regime and the implications for some Caribbean and European nations based on the new plans – Debbie Ransome reports (00:29 -06:18)
2. The Cuban Public Health Ministry has announced a major policy change towards HIV positive persons in that they would be no longer be automatically be placed in sanitariums. The enforcement of the policy according to statistics seems to have curbed the rise of HIV in Cuba – Lionel Martin reports (06:19 -08:56)
3. Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been giving his assessment of US President Bill Clinton and the collapse of communism in relation to the future of Cuba and his role as a symbol of the revolution – Simon Deering reports (08:57 -11:33)
4. Hundreds of Guyanese nationals living in North America and planning to spend the Christmas holidays at home are having a hard time due to a series of aircraft mechanical problems by the airline Sharif Khan – reports (11:34 - 13:07)
5. A black mother and her two sons who claimed that they were unlawfully humiliated – family members were brutally assaulted and wrongfully imprisoned eight years ago during the Broadwater Farm riots, Tottenham London have won substantial damages in court in London. The family’s lawyer Raju Bhatt said the damages were a reflection on the level of police misconduct. Beverly Scott says that she can never trust the police again (13:08 -15:09)