Caribbean Report 29-09-1999 - Gordon, Orin (anchor, correspondent); Smith, Lew (correspondent); Roberts, Ray (interviewee); Carrington, Edwin (speaker); Thomas, Bert (interviewee); Stone Greaves, Keith (correspondent); Harford, Ronald (interviewee); Mitchell, James (interviewee); Scotland, Patricia (interviewee); Duarte, Simon Molina (interviewee) (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1999)
1. Headlines with anchor Orin Gordon (00:00 - 00:41)
2. Vigorous debate continues over press freedom in Grenada following the arrest of editor of the weekly newspaper Grenada Today on criminal libel charges brought against him by Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. President of the Grenada Media Association Ray Roberts questions the heavy handed use of police and crackdown of dissent. Lew Smith reports (00:42 - 05:18)
3. At a United Nations Summit in New York CARICOM Ambassadors held a meeting with US Secretary of State Madeline Albright to discuss tariff on bananas. Antigua & Barbuda Ambassador to the UN Patrick Lewis analyses the meeting reiterating the importance of bananas to Caribbean economies and the impact of trade tariffs (05:19 – 08:20)
4. At a UN Special session on the vulnerability of special islands states, CARICOM secretary General Edwin Carrington with support from Simon Molina Duarte Head of the Association of Caribbean States articulate a resolution to declare the Caribbean Sea a special environment area (08:21 – 10:03)
Keywords: Freedom Press -- Grenada; Tariff -- Caribbean Area; Debt -- Developing countries; Developing countries - - Economic conditions; Caribbean Sea -- Environmental conditions; Haiti -- Politics and government; Elections -- Haiti; Banking -- Caribbean Area; Money laundering -- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions