Caribbean Report 27-04-1994 - Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Manley, Michael (interviewee); Bruney, Mike (correspondent); Legg, Paul (correspondent); Rowe, Yvette (correspondent); Gardner, Myrna (interviewee); Grant, Verne (interviewee); Haynes, Rosie (interviewee); Ambrose, Curtley (interviewee); Lamb, Alan (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent) (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1994)
1. Headlines with Debbie Ransome (00:00-00:32)
2. Michael Manley, head of the Commonwealth team observing South Africa’s elections said an international monitoring force should be mounted to help quell post-election violence. Former Jamaica Prime Minister spent most of the day observing the turnout as elderly, ill and disabled voters turned out on the first day of South Africa’s first multi-racial elections. Michael Manley comments that there should be a small but alert presence of international persons for the first few months after the election to let everyone know the international community is supporting what is happening (00:33-04:03)
3. In Dominica, angry bus, truck and taxi-drivers took to the streets to protest the increase in the motor vehicle taxes. Police reacted by using tear gas. Protesters blocked the road around the capital. Mike Bruney reports (04:04-06:25)
4. The resignation of Ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo, Clinton’s special envoy to Haiti, is to be announced. The Ambassador has been criticized in recent weeks both by human rights groups and supporters of the President’s own Democratic Party over the administration’s failure to return Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in Haiti. Paul Legg reports from the State Department in Washington (06:26-08:24)
Keywords: Elections -- South Africa; Demonstrations -- South Africa; Police brutality -- England; United States -- Foreign relations -- Haiti