Caribbean Report 11-12-1990 - Goffe, Leslie (anchor); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Grant, Bernie (interviewee); Osborne, John (interviewee); Doyle, Bertrand (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Osborne, Carney (interviewee) (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990)
1. Headlines (00:00-00:38)
2. International observer groups started arriving in Haiti, as the Haitians wait nervously for the presidential election which is five days away. Michael Norton reports that the front-runner candidate, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, appears to have attracted support from Venezuela (00:39-02:30)
3. Guyanese-born Bernie Grant, British Labour Party MP, leads a five-man delegation of the Afro-Asian solidarity movement to Iraq on Sunday. The mission hopes to intensify the momentum for peace in the Middle East (02:31-04:32)
4. Sandra Baptiste reports that the Montserrat-based radio station, Radio Antilles, has been dormant since Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and plans are underway to re-open the station. Carney Osborne, Interim Manager of Radio Antilles and John Osborne, Chief Minister of Montserrat comments on the need for funding and the current negotiations with BBC (04:33-08:34)
Keywords: Elections -- Haiti; Election monitoring -- Haiti; Afro-Asian politics; Radio Antilles Corporation; Radio stations -- Montserrat; Bouterse, Desire Delano, 1945; Insurgency - Suriname; Investments, Foreign -- Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago -- Foreign relations -- Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997; Caribbean Area -- Economic aspects; Peace-building -- Middle East; Miami Conference on the Caribbean