Caribbean Report 29-04-1993

Trinidad and Tobago plans to ask the international community to forgive Port of Spain’s substantial debt in the region of 12 billion US dollars, allowing Trinidad to then write off the main part of Guyana’s debt of 509 million dollars. A task force on crime commissioned by the Jamaican government has submitted a damming report on the operations of the country’s security forces – Gary Allen reports. Three men who were scheduled to go to the gallows in Trinidad and Tobago twice in the past year have won another stay of execution as the matter is going back to the privy council, otherwise they would be have been the first to be executed in over ten years – Tony Fraser reports. The European Community allowed France to curb banana imports from Latin America, after a recent surge of shipments depressed French prices by as much as 40% – Yvette Rowe reports. Tight economic are driving Cubans away from their faith in the revolution and even previous blame on the US embargo on Cuba is beginning to dwindle in Cuba – BBC correspondent Charles Scanlon reports. An Organisation of African Unity Conference on Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism estimates that the people of Africa, the Caribbean and black Americans are owed 100 trillion US dollars, several presentations analysed the loss of people and production potential due to slavery and colonialism.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	The British Broadcasting Corporation, Rowe, Yvette (anchor), Scanlon, Charles (correspondent), Valley, Kenneth (interviewee), Allen, Gary (correspondent), Fraser, Tony (correspondent), Iton, Wayne (interviewee), Smith, Wayne (interviewee)
Other Authors:	The University of the West Indies
Format:	Recording, oral biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	The British Broadcasting Corporation 1993-04-29
Subjects:	Trinidad and Tobago, > economic aspects, > Guyana., Caribbean Area, > Politics and government, > Economic aspects., Crime, > Justice, > Corrupt practices, > Jamaica, > Politics and government., Corporal punishment, > trinidad and tobago, > Politics and government., Bananas, > imports, > economic aspects, > Caribbean area., Imports, > Economic aspects, > Caribbean Area., Cuba, > Economic aspects, > Politics and government., Reparation (Criminal justice), > Africa., Reparation (Criminal justice), > Caribbean Area.,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/2139/34543
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