Caribbean Report 18-05-1992
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1992-05-18
Authors
Crosskill, Hugh (anchor ; interviewer)
The British Broadcasting Corporation
Manning, Patrick (interviewee)
Jagan, Cheddi (interviewee)
Jarvis, Mike (correspondent)
Williams, Burton (interviewee)
Williams, Colin (correspondent)
Christian, Sydney (interviewee)
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1. Headlines (00:00-00:32)
2. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Patrick Manning proposes an economic union with Barbados and Guyana which he says will not lead to the fragmentation of CARICOM (00:33-05:22)
3. Guyana’s Opposition Leader Cheddi Jagan hails Mr. Manning’s plan for an economic union as an initiative to accelerate the process of regional integration. He says he plans to pursue the proposal should he win in the upcoming general elections (05:23-07:13)
4. Trinidad and Tobago’s private sector is being encouraged to take up the Guyanese government’s offer for investment in Guyanese companies as a means of working off part of the US$350 million debt owed to Trinidad and Tobago (07:14-07:54)
5. St. Vincent’s police officers express their disappointment in the response from Prime Minister James Mitchell, who invited them to meet with health minister Burton Williams over drug trafficking allegations he made against them. Correspondents Collin Williams and Mike Jarvis report (07:57-10:39)
6. Antigua Barbuda’s Labour Minister, Adolphus Freeland announces his decision to pull out of the leadership election to succeed Prime Minister Vere Bird. He says he will be throwing his support behind Information Minister John St. Luce (10:40-11:22)
7. Antiguan constitutional lawyer Sydney Christian talks about Prime Minister Bird’s political future following the Antigua Labour Party’s leadership election on Sunday (11:23-14:41)
2. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Patrick Manning proposes an economic union with Barbados and Guyana which he says will not lead to the fragmentation of CARICOM (00:33-05:22)
3. Guyana’s Opposition Leader Cheddi Jagan hails Mr. Manning’s plan for an economic union as an initiative to accelerate the process of regional integration. He says he plans to pursue the proposal should he win in the upcoming general elections (05:23-07:13)
4. Trinidad and Tobago’s private sector is being encouraged to take up the Guyanese government’s offer for investment in Guyanese companies as a means of working off part of the US$350 million debt owed to Trinidad and Tobago (07:14-07:54)
5. St. Vincent’s police officers express their disappointment in the response from Prime Minister James Mitchell, who invited them to meet with health minister Burton Williams over drug trafficking allegations he made against them. Correspondents Collin Williams and Mike Jarvis report (07:57-10:39)
6. Antigua Barbuda’s Labour Minister, Adolphus Freeland announces his decision to pull out of the leadership election to succeed Prime Minister Vere Bird. He says he will be throwing his support behind Information Minister John St. Luce (10:40-11:22)
7. Antiguan constitutional lawyer Sydney Christian talks about Prime Minister Bird’s political future following the Antigua Labour Party’s leadership election on Sunday (11:23-14:41)