Caribbean Report 03-04-2002
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2002-04-03
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:24)
2. Caribbean countries seek a new partnership with Britain at the UK-Caribbean Forum in Georgetown, Guyana as Foreign and Trade Ministers and other officials meet with Britain’s Foreign Minister Jack Straw and Ministers from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Julian Hunte, St. Lucia’s Foreign and Trade Minister comments. Ron Sanders says Britain needs the Caribbean. Orin Gordon reports (00:25-03:11)
3. The Guyana Government says the killing of a Senior Superintendent of Police, Leon Fraser, only makes the authorities more firmly opposed to criminal activity. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon expressed sympathies. Colin Smith reports (03:12-05:06)
4. Jamaica’s justice system is openly challenged by retaliatory acts of violence. Some see these acts are seen as a trend toward growing lawlessness in Jamaica. Talk Show Host and MP Ronnie Thwaites does not share that view. Ken Richards reports (05:07-09:31)
5. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development announces that the British Virgin Islands (BVI) pledges to improve the transparency of its regulatory systems and as a result the BVI will be the final Caribbean off-shore centre to be remove from its list of harmful tax havens (09:32-09:58)
6. Christiane Taubira, from Cayenne, French Guiana, is about to become the first black woman to run for President of France. She represents the overseas French territory of French Guiana in the National Parliament in Paris. President Jacques Chirac is due to visit and campaign for the Presidency in Cayenne, however Caribbean issues are likely to be given more attention by Christiane Taubira (09:59-13:34)
7. Thirty of Curacao’s Prison Officers are about to be fired after an investigation into a series of escapes from the Bon Futuro prison. The Ministry of Justice Commission found the officers to be lacking in integrity, in breach of trust and involved in smuggling drugs and arms into the prison. Geraldine Cockland reports from The Hague (13:35-15:24)
2. Caribbean countries seek a new partnership with Britain at the UK-Caribbean Forum in Georgetown, Guyana as Foreign and Trade Ministers and other officials meet with Britain’s Foreign Minister Jack Straw and Ministers from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Julian Hunte, St. Lucia’s Foreign and Trade Minister comments. Ron Sanders says Britain needs the Caribbean. Orin Gordon reports (00:25-03:11)
3. The Guyana Government says the killing of a Senior Superintendent of Police, Leon Fraser, only makes the authorities more firmly opposed to criminal activity. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon expressed sympathies. Colin Smith reports (03:12-05:06)
4. Jamaica’s justice system is openly challenged by retaliatory acts of violence. Some see these acts are seen as a trend toward growing lawlessness in Jamaica. Talk Show Host and MP Ronnie Thwaites does not share that view. Ken Richards reports (05:07-09:31)
5. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development announces that the British Virgin Islands (BVI) pledges to improve the transparency of its regulatory systems and as a result the BVI will be the final Caribbean off-shore centre to be remove from its list of harmful tax havens (09:32-09:58)
6. Christiane Taubira, from Cayenne, French Guiana, is about to become the first black woman to run for President of France. She represents the overseas French territory of French Guiana in the National Parliament in Paris. President Jacques Chirac is due to visit and campaign for the Presidency in Cayenne, however Caribbean issues are likely to be given more attention by Christiane Taubira (09:59-13:34)
7. Thirty of Curacao’s Prison Officers are about to be fired after an investigation into a series of escapes from the Bon Futuro prison. The Ministry of Justice Commission found the officers to be lacking in integrity, in breach of trust and involved in smuggling drugs and arms into the prison. Geraldine Cockland reports from The Hague (13:35-15:24)