Caribbean Report 05-03-1993

Legal experts in Luxemburg and Brussels say that Germany will have an uphill legal battle to block the introduction of a new Europe banana regime – the German government plans to challenge the regime at the European Court of Justice – correspondent Shada Isalm reports. The government of Trinidad and Tobago is to seek international funding to fight crime. However, Minister of National Security Russell Huggins states that there is dire need of funds. Correspondent Tony Fraser PM reports from an interview with Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Cuban President Fidel Castro says he is willing to visit Washington if President Bill Clinton invites him - he has called Clinton “a man of peace." Cuba’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada says that the new US Secretary of state Alexander Watson has a good reputation in the region – correspondent Lionel Martin reports from Havana. The American Film Malcolm X opened in Brixton - South London, and cinemas in the Caribbean. Does the film have any particular meaning for Britain’s black community? That was the question BBC Caribbean put to people waiting for the film’s showing in South London – correspondent Debbie Ransome takes a look at the impact of Malcom X in Britain 30 years past and present. A Jamaican man - Augustus Brown, living in Brixton, London walked into a British police station and confessed to the murder of Leona Forbes who has been missing for 8 years, has escaped a murder trial – correspondent Carol Orr reports from an interview with her niece Jennifer Taylor.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	The British Broadcasting Corporation, Rowe, Yvette (anchor), Islam, Shada (correspondent), Alarcón, Ricardo (interviewee), Martin, Lionel (correspondent), Fraser, Tony (correspondent), Ransome, Debbie (correspondent), Orr, Carol (correspondent), Taylor, Jennifer (interviewee)
Other Authors:	The University of the West Indies
Format:	Recording, oral biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	The British Broadcasting Corporation 2012-05-29T20:18:49Z
Subjects:	Bananas—Commerce, > Europe., General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)—Commerce, > Europe., Crime, > Caribbean Area., Crime—Trinidad and Tobago., Criminals, > Trinidad and Tobago., Cuba —Foreign Relations—United States., Castro, Fidel., Criminal law—Trinidad and Tobago., Criminal law, > Jamaica., Cuba, > Foreign relations, > United States., Cuba—Politics and government., Great Britain, > Race relations., Crime, > Great Britain., Criminal law, > Great Britain., Murder, > Great Britain.,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/2139/12872
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