Caribbean Report 21-07-1992

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:00)
2. In St. Lucia government and the business sector meet in a public forum to discuss the Common External Tariff. Clips are played of contributions made by Bill Stewart, President of the St. Lucia’s Hotel and Tourism Association, Bobby Khan of the Barbados Manufacturers Association and Charles Maynard, Dominica’s Minister of Tourism and Trade (00:30-05:39)
3. Professor of Extra Mural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Rex Nettleford, reacts to the statement made by former Jamaican Prime Minister Hugh Shearer concerning black leadership (05:40-08:40)
4. A four member Technical Mission Team of the Organization of American States arrives in Haiti tomorrow in a bid to prepare the way for a possible visit by Secretary General João Baena Soares (08:41-09:14)
5. Cuba is this week returning some 850 Haitian refugees to their homeland under a new policy designed to discourage them from seeking refuge in Cuba (09:15-09:40)
6. Correspondent Chandra Van Binnendijk reports on the row between Suriname and France for the human rights violations being used by French Guiana to get Surinamese refugees to return to Suriname (09:41-12:08)
7. Dr. Robert Pastor, Director of the Carter Center, says arrangements for elections in Guyana are moving in the right direction but recommends a large mobile and expert team be set up to monitor the 700 plus polling divisions (12:09-14:20)
8. The planned visit by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to Spain later this week sparks off plans for two demonstrations (14:21-14:37)

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