Caribbean Report 12-11-1991 - Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Pastor, Robert (interviewee); Burns, Larry (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Dumas, William (interviewee); Ford, Henry (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Core, David (interviewee); McCalla, Jocelyn (interviewee); Frederickson, John (interviewee) (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991)
1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)
2. The Carter Centre believes President Desmond Hoyte remains flexible on the possibility of pushing back the elections timetable scheduled for December in Guyana. Interviews with Robert Pastor of the Carter Centre; and Larry Burns, Director of the Washington based Council of Hemispheric Affairs who states that the Carter Centre is mistaken in its assessment that President Hoyte was committed to delivering free and fair elections (00:36-05:00)
3. Trinidad’s Central Bank Governor, William Dumas cautions that it will take some time for Barbados’ economy to be placed on a sound footing and stressed that the key to economic recovery is to take early remedial action. In the same vein, William Dumas issues a warning to Caricom governments to acknowledge financial difficulties and take early action. Interview with Sandra Baptiste (05:01-07:41)
4. The leader of the opposition in Barbados, Henry Ford, is hoping for the support of the government bench in his motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford for mismanaging the economy (07:42-09:07)
Keywords: Elections -- Guyana; Election monitoring -- Guyana; Barbados -- Economic conditions; Caribbean Area -- Economic aspects; Barbados -- Politics and government; Confidence voting -- Barbados; Sandiford, L. Erskine; Prime ministers -- Barbados; Refugees -- Haiti; Boat people -- Haiti; Haiti -- Politics and government; Presidents -- Haiti; Aristide, Jean-Bertrand; Organisation of American States; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union