Caribbean Report 08-10-1998

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)
2. CARICOM's facilitator in Guyana's peace talks, Morris King, takes a break. Colin Smith reports (00:25-02:12)
3. Trinidad and Tobago's government gets its say in the Darren Thomas and Hanif Hillaire case before the Privy Council. Trinidad Guardian reporter Francis Joseph and Tony Fraser report (02:13-08:15)
4. With CARICOM calling for a better deal for poor countries, the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank have ended in Washington. President of the World Bank James Wolfensohn is interviewed and James Morgan reports (08:16-10:05)
5. Britain to provide more funding for Cuba's anti-drug programme. The visit by Baroness Symons to Cuba has been severely criticised by the United States for condoning Cuba's flawed human rights record. Britain's Foreign Office Minister Baroness Liz Symons is interviewed and Rosie Hayes reports (10:06-13:12)
6. Preliminary estimates of the damage caused by Hurricane George suggests the cost to insurance companies in the United States could be as much as over two million dollars. Electra Naismith reports (13:13-15:22)

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