Caribbean Report 21-08-1998

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:23)
2. Talks get underway in the CARIFORUM Summit in the Dominican Republic. Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington and spokesman for the Caricom Secretariat Leonard Robinson are interviewed (00:24-05:23)
3. Guyana's government is confident that peace talks would go ahead. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon is interviewed and Colin Smith reports (05:24-07:33)
4. After the recent defeat for the pre-secession movement in the island of Nevis public officials are turning their attention to the report of the Constitutional Commission. Nevian Deputy Premier Malcolm Guichard is interviewed (07:34-10:49)
5. Politicians are intensifying their election campaigning in Belize. Keith 'Stone' Greaves reports (10:50-12:06)
6. Meanwhile Jamaicans are going up to vote in the local government elections in September. Still in Jamaica, lawyers for convicted killer Neville Lewis facing execution next Thursday referred the constitutional motion in court. The Univeristy of the West Indies Political Scientist Trevor Munroe is interviewed (12:07-15:22)

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