Caribbean Report 21-09-1998

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:27)
2. Hurricane George causes widespread damage in the North Eastern Caribbean. France, meanwhile, has sent a team of eighty people to Guadeloupe and Martinique to help with emergency relief efforts and a little further South Cuba is preparing to be hit by George. Caribbean Disaster Emergency Relief Agency head Jeremy Collymore, Michele Huber, National Hurricane Center, Miami are interviewed. Rosie Hayes and Louis Daniel report (00:28-08:06)
3. Caribbean banana dispute springs to life in Geneva tomorrow. Claire Addo reports from Geneva (08:07-09:51)
4. OECS countries told to be weary of the economic crisis in Asia and in Russia. Director of Economic Affairs at the OECS Secretariat Randolph Cato is interviewed (09:52-14:12)
5. The man appointed by Caricom to keep Guyana's political parties at the negotiating table has arrived in Guyana and has begun his work. Former Attorney General of Barbados Morris King is interviewed (14:13-15:21)

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