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ID_DMFRAF	But as Emma Joseph reports, Washington does not approve of this development.
ID_GDSBJP	flights, but travelers from the region face further delays, and the U.S.
ID_LBWRUE	He told a public discussion on the issue today that the economic conditions in the region do not allow for the setting up of a shared currency.
ID_GFGLFG	Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson is scheduled to announce tomorrow his decision on whether to roll back the controversial tax imposed on gasoline.
ID_SADWWX	I'm Debbie Ransom and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_YXVXUV	Martin's Island Council stalls moves by the Hague to bring the territory under tighter control.
ID_BOEQBO	The people did not answer the opposition's call to oppose the return of President Avril on Monday night.
ID_BYYEPS	The WTO rules mostly in favour of the US in a dispute with Europe over Cuban rum.
ID_GHGBOV	The Bush administration has made it plain that it has little interest in improving relations with Fidel Castro's government.
ID_DSQIDA	and people involved in firearms crime who come from the Caribbean.
ID_FXFEWL	I have no objection to people negotiating to their best advantage and using industrial action.
ID_SAOBWG	I wasn't a member of the jury, but the evidence against that particular gentleman was quite compelling.
ID_NEKYSZ	when the newspaper confirmed that it has no evidence that he or any of his companies have ever been suspected of drug trafficking or money laundering.
ID_JPOBNH	larger parts of the population shared between two islands, Grand Bahama and New Providence, all of the other islands count.
ID_CCBKYP	Now, some people might think, well, what have you been doing up to now to get such a report available?
ID_TXQQBT	There's an awful lot of hand-eye coordination and the seat-of-the-pants ability in driving a sled.
ID_QROMAD	I believe that they follow the law and the procedures.
ID_YRYEYZ	I'm Mike Jarvis and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_JUVLCZ	I'm Keith Stonegraves and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_IIEJYE	an appeal made consistently by Caribbean leaders over the past year.
ID_KPOYKQ	There's always been a very large gap in Guyana between the promises that are made and what actually happens.
ID_QPQVYO	In most instances, the electoral officer says problems of the names on polling stations have been clarified.
ID_JBZECZ	And who's responsible for the bad state of Liat's finances?
ID_RQIHIL	The Cuban economy comes under the spotlight at a meeting of Caribbean experts in Havana, and the Barbados Minister for Air Transport urges CARICOM governments not to sign the multilateral agreement with Britain.
ID_ZCLGVP	The local officials are also suggesting that the freezing of aid has held up some infrastructural projects in St.
ID_GOUDPS	I am Keith Stonegraves, and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_ZMEBZP	Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning says his proposal for an economic union with Barbados and Guyana will not lead to the fragmentation of CARICOM.
ID_PGDUWD	I'm Oren Gordon and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_JXJARS	I'm Hugh Crosskill, and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_QFSLCN	Belize to loan Barbados two million US dollars and Clive Lloyd to coach cricketers in South Africa.
ID_MKFXDF	Jamaican and Guyanese students in Russia are warned to steer clear of war-torn Chechnya.
ID_RDHUND	The Barbadian minister responsible for trade is Billie Miller, and she admits that Caribbean and other countries have an uphill struggle to make their voices heard.
ID_INDKRI	dominated a press conference held this morning by the head of the presidential secretariat, Dr. Roger Lunchen.
ID_LJNZQW	I asked him how the arrangement would work.
ID_SSTGLA	Humanitarian aid for poor Haitians turns up in Dominican Republic shops, and Antigua leads complaints to the United States about the closure of the visa section in St.
ID_ITLZFQ	From London, BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_HQHXSS	Honestly, there was no chance, and I'm surprised to see in the local, in the press here in the region, these complaints.
ID_LGGZZY	And that's it for BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_XFRSWM	It's official Caribbean nationals make up seventeen percent of the US military and the EU depends its policy on Cuba.
ID_TUROVZ	Basically, I think that is the general feeling.
ID_DRXDZY	I raised the subject of Guyana Island when I spoke to him in Edinburgh recently and put to him charges that he had been suppressing a report which says the project would cause damage.
ID_HMOWYS	The Council has recognized the new body for cricket in South Africa, the United Cricket Board of South Africa, and the Council has elected them to full membership of ICC with immediate effect.
ID_EHHLCV	A Caribbean ambassador tells the World Trade Organization the region wants a hearing at the banana disputes panel being set up.
ID_AQIYXL	The break in the ADP-AUP government formed following the March fourth elections last year, and the resignation of Victor Banks from the government, the decline in investor confidence, attacks on democratic freedom, the inability of all political parties since nineteen eighty-four to win outright majorities in general elections, and a constitutional and electoral process and system which need major reform.
ID_FYERQJ	Home and the place is a wreckage to see it if you knew what it was before.
ID_YSHZCG	He says governments also need to play a role in encouraging sensible construction practices.
ID_HKIHJA	The first tour match against the Nike Oppenheimer XI is on Tuesday.
ID_IZXMVR	The Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Anyoko, was a special guest at the conference.
ID_WRPIOC	From London, BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_ZITLYY	If they take away from these four women's islands particularly...
ID_TKKXQF	But even before the work begins, concerns are being raised about the threat that human interference could have on the natural habitat.
ID_ZHHIND	Tomorrow is the last day for register control, but so far the turnout of voters has been very disappointing.
ID_QDKIKV	Ben Jones, prime minister for three months in nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety, is unimpressed with Dr. Mitchell's appointment of another former leader, George Brazan, as a political adviser.
ID_MHBHHT	That issue aside, CARICOM heads believe the CARICOM Canada summit yielded positive results on the subject of trade with a new proposed arrangement to replace the existing CARICOM agreement.
ID_AZOQRM	The report notes five characteristics of small states, yet
ID_CPSARF	Trade unions, churches and economists have described the government's rollback as a step in the right direction.
ID_WCUIXI	Our policy recognizes the importance of helping Cuban families to overcome the divisions imposed by immigration and exile.
ID_LUBAOW	Royal Caribbean's decision was announced today through its St.
ID_MUMOKW	But there is the view that the Y-to-K problem was neither fictional nor a matter of mere hype or hysteria.
ID_ECQYZQ	There's no question but that the Bush administration has a habit of leaping from one headline to the next headline to make its foreign policy.
ID_ZAODNS	For BBC Caribbean Report, this is Bevan Springer in New York.
ID_QZOLTA	They have been attracting very, very large crowds
ID_NZNIFT	This incident follows the recent killing of the former army colonel, Jean Lamy, who had been a close friend of the former leader, Jean Bertrand Aristide.
ID_QUQTYF	Mr. Paul Adderley says the report is inaccurate.
ID_UNUOJL	With general elections months away in Jamaica, crime is shaping up to be a key issue for voters.
ID_WBNVHO	Tony Fraser in Port of Spain for BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_EPKXQM	Eastern Caribbean Express is aimed at servicing the growing number of tourists who are taking holidays in the Eastern Caribbean.
ID_WNDBUO	Agreement has been reached to safeguard Scotland's cashmere industry, one of the products which was initially targeted in the so-called banana war.
ID_LESBIZ	The tide of lopsided elections is making its presence felt with increasing frequency across the Caribbean, a point not lost on Mr. Arthur.
ID_DRVFWK	Senator Chester Humphrey has tabled a motion in the Upper House of Parliament urging the U.S.
ID_GLUVMA	Incoming CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington says the Secretariat's resources need to be beefed up.
ID_POLKWN	At present, St Kitts and Nevis retain Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state.
ID_DTVRLZ	I'm Ken Richards saying goodbye from London.
ID_SZWRRI	And the decision here has been to change our engagement, and we think improve our engagement in Haiti by shifting the emphasis from one within Port-au-Prince only on a continuous basis to moving outside of Port-au-Prince to the countryside on a frequent but occasional basis to continue to support the people of Haiti.
ID_TCDCKQ	A British newspaper questions the business dealings of Belize's UN ambassador and the opposition beats the government in local elections in Trinidad and Tobago.
ID_HDMJXR	Lots of election news in today's program as Guyanese in London stage a protest demonstration outside their High Commission calling for free and fair elections.
ID_MEDMBP	Keshla Shubani is a research officer at the Center for Policy Studies in Johannesburg.
ID_KVZOMY	In a suicide note, he accused the government of using the death penalty for its own political ends.
ID_DGFKHA	You are the first light through the tunnel of darkness and we hope you stay and be successful.
ID_CEVDME	The island's administration has sent a delegation of commissioners to meet with the Antillean Prime Minister Miguel Purie in Curacao in an attempt to resolve the crisis.
ID_PHBXPV	At a PNC rally after officially taking over, Mr. Corbyn criticized alleged government corruption and extrajudicial killings.
ID_CUHVCE	I'm Oren Gordon and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_LJKPVN	And in St Kitts Nevis, the government responds to opposition claims of political victimisation.
ID_FFREEB	Everyone is donning red plastic noses and doing silly things like lying around in baths of baked beans and tap dancing underwater.
ID_WOXXJY	If these proposals are what they're said to be, how much of a solution and resolution to the trade dispute between the US and the EU would they prove to be?
ID_KDQSQC	I'm Hugh Crosskill, and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_GZVRNC	Most of the employees to be fired are based at the airline's headquarters in Trinidad,
ID_VKNFSJ	Antigua's arms controversy merits a full-page story in a British national newspaper.
ID_PJBJGS	Among the most vocal objection raised has been that of the Environmental Awareness Group, EAG, which has insisted that protection is needed for the fallow deer, the last remnants of a species of snake found only on Guyana Island.
ID_KMAPSX	I'm sure you're aware that the drug, the smuggling of drugs or the trafficking of drugs is a major enterprise.
ID_GTJRVN	I believe the people in England are going to be extremely disappointed, and also in Antigua.
ID_EUNBQV	I don't really desire to hold power.
ID_SYJBHP	The Trinidadian Prime Minister clarifies his power-sharing proposal.
ID_BFPVRZ	And the Hemispheric Press Association says it's worried about Cuba's media clampdown.
ID_ZSKFEW	creative ways to provide additional services that you could charge.
ID_CIZIEF	I'm Hugh Crosskill and this is BBC Caribbean Report.
ID_LYXSID	He says political integration among the nine OECS countries, a single currency in CARICOM, and greater trade liberalization among CARICOM states
ID_BDPLIL	Most countries stood their ground.
ID_WUCDSF	Lucia's Deputy Prime Minister seeks redress at the British Department of Transport.
ID_MPZYSJ	Mr. Manley's mission will be to look at the possibilities of creating an association of Caribbean states, extending CARICOM's links with its neighbors in the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America.