Caribbean Report 09-10-1997
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1997-10-09
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:25)
2. Cuba's Communist Party votes to keep the one party state into the 21st century. The party's Congress believes that the State may have gone far enough in terms of economic reform. Tom Gibb reports from Havana (00:26-04:16)
3. The kidnapping rate in Trinidad and Tobago has been reduced. Cecil Carrington of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (04:17-09:23)
4. In Jamaica the Commission of Enquiry into the events which led to the killing of sixteen inmates during prison riots last August continues in Kingston. The Commission says it plans to call for changes in the system which results in the overcrowding of thousand of inmates in remand centres. Carol Orr reports (09:24-11:34)
5. The Chairman of the Electoral Advisory Committee in Jamaica, William Chin Sue feels that electronic voting is out of the question for the upcoming poll (11:35-11:56)
6. The Congress of the Communist Party in Cuba is coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary leader Ernesto Che Guevara. His recently recovered bones are to be buried in Cuba. Alejandro Marti reports (11:57-15:18)
2. Cuba's Communist Party votes to keep the one party state into the 21st century. The party's Congress believes that the State may have gone far enough in terms of economic reform. Tom Gibb reports from Havana (00:26-04:16)
3. The kidnapping rate in Trinidad and Tobago has been reduced. Cecil Carrington of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (04:17-09:23)
4. In Jamaica the Commission of Enquiry into the events which led to the killing of sixteen inmates during prison riots last August continues in Kingston. The Commission says it plans to call for changes in the system which results in the overcrowding of thousand of inmates in remand centres. Carol Orr reports (09:24-11:34)
5. The Chairman of the Electoral Advisory Committee in Jamaica, William Chin Sue feels that electronic voting is out of the question for the upcoming poll (11:35-11:56)
6. The Congress of the Communist Party in Cuba is coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary leader Ernesto Che Guevara. His recently recovered bones are to be buried in Cuba. Alejandro Marti reports (11:57-15:18)