Caribbean Report 16-02-1989
On the day that elections is expected to be announced in Antigua, opposition leader, Tim Hector of the Antiguan Caribbean Liberation Movement cites corruption as one of the major issues and lists his strategies to win the elections. The influential New Yorker Magazine describes Antigua as a playpen for Prime Minister Bird and his son. In the British Virgin Islands, Alan O'Neil of the newly formed political party, the Independent People's Movement speaks of the need for the revision of the British Nationality Act which disenfranchise immigrant women who marries local men, and their offspring. At the meeting of the Ministerial Group of ACP/EEC members at Brazzaville, British Euro MP Michael Hindley asks Secretary General, Edwin Carrington to raise the issue of the worldwide ban on the skin lightening poisonous mercury iodide soap that was banned for sales in Europe but exported to third world countries.
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| Format: | Sound, mp3 biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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The British Broadcasting Corporation
1989-02-16
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| Subjects: | Elections, > Antigua., Elections, > British Virgin Islands., Soap., Corruption, > Antigua., Political corruption, > Antigua., Discrimination, > Law and legislation, > British Virgin Islands., ACP, EEC, British Nationality Act., Independent People Movement, > British Virgin Islands., Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement, > Antigua., |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11446 |
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