Caribbean Report 05-10-1990 - Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Hoyte, Desmond; Nascimento, Kit (interviewee); Murray, Mark (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Boopsingh, Trevor (interviewee); Persad, Krishna (interviewee) (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990)
1. Headlines (00:00-00:34)
2. Desmond Hoyte, Guyana’s President, lashes out against the US Congress’ decision to withhold six hundred thousand dollars of economic assistance in an effort to force the Guyana government into holding free and fair elections. Mark Murray of the US State Department noted that a US elections assistance team will visit Haiti to assess the prospects of free and fair elections (00:35-04:14)
3. At a time when the Guyanese government is selling out state assets in the sugar and bauxite industries, President Desmond Hoyte is adamant that Guyana’s independence will not be sold (04:15-05:04)
4. Police in Guyana detains ten persons, including a former army officer and an assistant superintendent of police, on suspicion of conspiracy to over throw the Hoyte government. Comments from a government spokesman, Kit Nascimento, on the arrests (05:05-06:28)
Keywords: Election monitoring -- Guyana; Elections -- Guyana; Guyana -- Foreign relations -- United States; Guyana -- Politics and government --20th century; Government, Resistance to -- Guyana; Voter registration -- Haiti; Elections -- Haiti; Cuba -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Bureaucracy -- Cuba; Petrolum -- Prices -- Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago -- Economic conditions