Caribbean Report 04-04-2001

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1. Headlines (00:00-00:28)
2. United Kingdon-based charter airline JMC says it is leaving the Eastern Caribbean. Minister of Tourism Dwyer Astaphan is interviewed (00:29-03:32)
3. French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has accused United States President George W. Bush of being inattentive to other realities, other civilizations unnotably to Europe. Member of the European Parliament Glenys Kinnock is interviewed (03:33-06:35)
4. Cost of cutting carbon dioxide emissions that was the justifications given by the Bush adminisration for withdrawing from the Kyoto Agreement last week. Ken Richards reports (06:36-08:09)
5. Brazil sides with Caricom as it rejects the United States plans to speed up the creation of the Americas Free Trade Zone. Senior Producer in the BBC Brazilian Service Americo Martins is interviewed (08:10-11:03)
6. Caribbean business interest are moving to facilitate trading on a regional stock exchange. Businessman Peter Boos and Wain Iton of the Jamaica Stock Exchange are interviewed. Tony Fraser reports (11:04-13:34)
7. Shivnarine Chanderpaul looks set to return to West Indies Cricket. Captain Carl Hooper is interviewed and Barry Wilkinson reports (13:35-15:46)

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