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05/07/69 A0056878 LONDON: PRIME MINISTER OF ST KITTS - NEKBIS - AGUILA, ROBERT BRADSHAW HAS TALKS IN LONDON WITH BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, MICHAEL STEWART: LN 9425 "BRADSHAW LONDON" SHOWS: GV EXTERIOR FOREIGN AND COMMON - WEALTH OFFICE; CU SIGN: MS BRADSHAW AND STEWART SHAKE HANDS: CU BRADSHAW: CU STEWART: MS BRADSHAW, STEWART ZOOM INTO BRADSHAW: GV BRADSHAW STEWART TALKING: (SHOT 5/7/69 24FT) BRADSHAW, ROBERT STEWART, MICHAEL ST KITTS - NEVIS - FEDERALISM ANGUILA GREAT BRITAIN - FOREIGN RELATIONS - ANGUILLA BRITSIH COMMONWEALTH UPITN / 24 FT / 16 FGM / POS / R29444 24 FT / 16 DUPE NEG /

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NAME: STK US NAVY 20060505I TAPE: EF06/0389 IN_TIME: 10:08:10:10 DURATION: 00:02:18:02 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: St Kitts, 4 May 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot of water and island of St. Kitts 2. Tighter shot of St. Kitts 3. Wide shot of USS Monterey 4. Various shots of US Coast Guard training St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard officials 5. SOUNDBITE (English): Tony Crisco, US Officer in charge of coast guard crew training: "They are very eager to learn; I don''t think that they have as much opportunity to train as we do. So we''re very excited to be here, to be able to step on the decks with these guys and train. We learn as much from them as they do from us, so we are very happy to come out here and apply these techniques. Hopefully they can use them, because without a doubt in the future we will be doing joint operations and joint boardings with them, so we''ll be work hand and hand with them." 6. Wide shot training 7. Various mid shots of St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard officials 8. SOUNDBITE (English): Sergeant Brian Mills, St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard: "It''s great; as you can see they are preparing us for a World Cup 2007 and if you realise law enforcement play a major role in this upcoming activity that we are going to have in 2007, so it''s always important to keep.. hone our skills and this.. the opportunity arises as this ship comes to port and it is good that we could capitalise on it." 9. More of training 10. Wide shot USS Monterey STORYLINE: Twelve members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard on Thursday received training in arrest procedures in preparation for next year''s cricket World Cup, which organisers expect will bring about 100,000 visitors to the region. Tony Crisco, the US officer in charge of the training, said he and his crew were happy to be involved in the operation, particularly with a view to future cooperation. "We learn as much from them as they do from us, so we are very happy to come out here and apply these techniques. Hopefully they can use them, because without a doubt in the future we will be doing joint operations and joint boardings with them," he said. Sergeant Brian Mills, from the St. Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard, said the training would be of great importance to prepare his team for the cricket World Cup event in 2007. The sailors from the USS Monterey - part of an aircraft carrier group that left Florida in April - also made repairs on Wednesday to a home for mentally disabled children on the Caribbean island. The Monterey, a cruiser based in Norfolk, Virginia, was scheduled to link up later in the week with other US warships for training in the Caribbean Sea. The US dispatched the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its group to the Caribbean for exercises focusing in part on drug and human trafficking. Other stops include Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, St. Maarten and Aruba. Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have criticised the US exercises, accusing the United States of trying to intimidate his country with the show of military strength. The US military has dismissed the criticism, noting that it holds annual exercises in the region. People in St. Kitts - a former British colony in the eastern Caribbean that is one of many countries used as a transit point by drug smugglers - welcomed the American troops. Keyword-military

16:27:31:15 In addition to the ceremony...the president will do... a multi-lateral meeting w/ the nations that rep. CARACOM, Antigua and Barbuta, Barbados, ...Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. ...

MIKE MCCURRY BRIEFS REPORTERS.

B&W PRINT 90 SILENT CUT STORY-HAS OF A WHITE SHIP INHARBOUR, A CANNON AND TREES IN FOREGROHND. PALM TREE ON WATEREDGE. LS SAILING BOATS IN HARBOUR. VS OF MEN CUTTING AND CARRYING BANAS. VS OF NICE OUTDORR MARKET SCENES. CHILDREN RUNNING TO SCHOOL. BOYS PLAYING AT BEACH. TEACHER LECTURING IN CLASS. SHOTS OF WAVES BEATING AGAINST ROCKY SHORE. MOUNTAIN RISING OUT OF SEA IN BACKGROUND. MAP OF CARIBBEAN ISLANDS WHICH ARE EFFECTED BY THE INDEPENDENCE NEGOTIATIONS. LEADERS ARRIVING FOR CONFERENCE IN LONGON. CONFERENCE SCENES. GREAT BRITAIN WILL GRANT THE ISLANDS OF ANTIGUA, ST. KITTS, NEVIS, ANGUILLA, DOMINICIA, ST. LUCIA AND GRENADA PARTIAL INDEPENDENCE, REMAINING RESPONSIBLE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENSE. CI: GEOGRAPHIC - WEST INDIES. GEOLOGY - TREES- PALM TREES. GEOLOGY - HARBORS. BUILDINGS - STORES- MARKETS. GEOLOGY - SHOTES. GEOLOGY - WAVES.

NAME: ST KITT WHAL 3 20060618I TAPE: EF06/0537 IN_TIME: 10:00:09:00 DURATION: 00:02:45:07 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/VNR DATELINE: St Kitts and Nevis - 18 June 2006/FILE RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: World Society for the Protection of Animals Video - Non AP Television News material FILE - recent 1. Various clandestine video from WSPA of Norwegian whaling vessel killing whale AP Television St. Kitts and Nevis - June 18, 2006 2. Various interiors of International Whaling Commission meeting 3. Head of US delegation William Hogarth speaking to other delegates 4. SOUNBITE (English): William Hogarth, head of US delegation: "Whales to me are like dolphins, turtles, anything with a cute face so to speak. We do have a lot of controversy. The US is opposed to commercial whaling. I don't think we'll ever see commercial whaling in the US I'm pretty positive of that, so it makes it difficult." 5. Spokesman for Japanese delegation Joji Morishita speaking to press 6. SOUNDBITE (English): Joji Morishita, Spokesman for Japanese delegation: "Every time I ask why we have to exempt whales from standard way of research on animals there are no clear answers. My understanding is that there is mostly emotions of so-called public opinion in many countries. Maybe its time we took this issue more seriously." 7. Entrance to meeting 8. Morishita standing with colleagues at entrance STORYLINE: A slim majority of nations on the International Whaling Commission joined a resolution on Sunday supporting a resumption of commercial whaling, but pro-whaling nations still lack the 75 percent majority needed to overturn the world's 20-year ban. The resolution, approved by a vote of 33-32 with one abstention, declares that the moratorium on commercial whaling was meant to be temporary and is no longer needed. The IWC meeting erupted in shouting and finger-pointing after the vote on the resolution, which was authored by six Caribbean nations and backed by the major pro-whaling nations of Norway, Iceland, Japan and Russia. The Japanese applauded and the winners shouted, "Sore losers!" when whaling opponents tried to continue debating after the vote. Some representatives of anti-whaling countries were booed and shouted down after yelling that Iceland should not be considered a voting IWC member because it had previously dropped out. The Irish delegate held his head in his hands in despair. Yet it wasn't immediately clear what impact it would have, since policy changes regarding hunting require a 75 percent majority of the 70-member commission. Delegates from small Caribbean and African countries said the resolution, the first of its kind since the 1986 ban, was needed to force the IWC to take up its original mandate of managing whale hunts, not banning them altogether. They've been pushing to lift the ban as a way to protect fish stocks from whales and give their small islands food security. The resolution was drafted by St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Dominica and Antigua. Japan and other pro-whaling countries had lost four previous pro-whaling votes at the meeting, thwarting their predicted takeover of the organisation that manages whaling. "Every time I ask why we have to exempt whales from standard way of research on animals there are no clear answers," said Joji Morishita, spokesman for the Japanese delegation. "Maybe its time we took this issue more seriously." Both Japan and Iceland kill whales for scientific research, which critics call a sham, and sell the carcasses. Norway ignores the moratorium and openly conducts commercial whaling. The conference is expected to continue meeting Monday on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.

TAPE_NUMBER: EF99/1177 IN_TIME: 19:23:02 // 19:57:51 - 20:15:44 - 21:30:44 LENGTH: 02:28 SOURCES: Caribbean Broadcasting Union/Antigua Broadcasting Services RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Natural Sound Hurricane Jose was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday, after causing damage to a chain of Caribbean islands. Ripping roofs off homes, hurling sailboats out of harbors and disrupting traffic and tourism on the air, land and sea, Jose hurled through the tiny islands in the northeast Caribbean from early Wednesday. The most severely affected were the islands of St.Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua. After leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, forecasters say that the 10th storm of the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Jose, is moving out of the Caribbean and that its once-fearsome core had begun to break up. But although there was no reported loss of life, it caused structural damage and flooding in many small islands and left jangled nerves because of a zigzag course that brought hurricane warnings as far west as Puerto Rico. The eye of the storm directly passed over Antigua. Winds up to 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) ripped roofs from houses and a new church. One house was completely blown over on its side while phone lines were ripped from their poles. Rains flooded the airport, which officials hoped to reopen on Friday, flattened small palm trees and left islanders without power and water service. Early reports from Antigua's National Office of Disaster Services said one person was missing and 17 were injured. To try and protect themselves from the storm people were doing last minute boarding up of their homes and some where evacuated to secure buildings. Another severely affected islands was St. Kitts. More than 15 hours of rain caused severe flooding and landslides on the western side. In Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands trees were uprooted and electrical and telephone lines mangled. Police on Dutch St. Maarten, where dozens of yachts sought a safe position in the harbour, said high seas flung three sailboats out of Simpson Bay. But with the storm moving out to sea, Puerto Rico's Civil Defence said that the 350 people who sought refuge in shelters Wednesday night were heading home. SHOTLIST: XFA St. John's, Eastern Antigua, Antigua - October 20 St. John's 1. Various of storm damage during hurricane 2. Wide of flooding on beach during hurricane 3. Roof ripped off by hurricane 4. House on its side Eastern Antigua 5. Tracking shots of telephone cables St. John's 6. Wide of hurricane swept street 7. Man boarding up house 8. Wide of hurricane swept street 9. People in evacuated to local school 10. Wide of hurricane swept street?

TAPE_NUMBER: EF99/1284 IN_TIME: 04:20:41 - 07:39:08 - 10:24:24 // 13:25:48 - 19:06: LENGTH: 01:15 SOURCES: TELENOTICIAS RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Natural Sound Residents of Puerto Rico are hoping against the odds that Hurricane Lenny won't come their way. However, the dark rain bands from Lenny are looming near the island. The U-S National Hurricane Centre in Miami says the storm is about 255 miles (380 kilometres) away from San Juan with winds nearing 120 miles per hour (190 kilometres per hour). Puerto Rico is in line for a direct hit from Hurricane Lenny. By Tuesday afternoon, the hurricane was 300 miles (450 kilometres) southwest of the capital San Juan, with winds of up to 120 miles per hour (190 kilometres per hour). Forecasters expect the hurricane to turn increasingly northeast and hit Puerto Rico or the U-S Virgin Islands early on Wednesday morning. Having battered the Dominican Republic on the way, it is bringing with it heavy rain. It is thought that the storm could drop up to 24 centimetres (10 inches) of rain, and its winds could whip waves up to 5 metres high. Puerto Ricans who had hoped the storm season was waning were instead rushing to grocery shops to stock up on supplies. The main supermarket in old town San Juan was running out of water and alcohol before it closed. The government consumers' association warned shopkeepers not to boost prices on necessities. In an attempt to safeguard property residents of the island were hurriedly boarding up windows in preparation for the storm. American Airlines cancelled some flights on its American Eagle commuter airline from San Juan to Santo Domingo, and tourists were stranded at the airport. Lenny's appearance so late in the hurricane season mirrored Tropical Storm Gordon, which struck in November 1994. That hurricane killed at least 1-thousand people in Haiti's southern provinces, drowning people in torrential streams or burying them in mudslides. Officials have also issued hurricane watches and tropical storm warnings for Dutch St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, Saba, Anguilla, Nevis, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Barbuda and Antigua. Lenny is the eighth hurricane to hit the Atlantic region this year. SHOTLIST: XFA Puerto Rico, November 16 1 Street scene 2 Woman crossing road with shopping 3 Wide shot people boarding up window 4 Mid shot people boarding up window 5 Wooden board being nailed to window frame 6 Coastline 7 Beach house 8 Close up of boarded up window 9 Various of airport check-in Keyword-weather?

TAPE_NUMBER: EF99/1288 IN_TIME: 04:31:04 - 07:35:58 - 10:19:32 // 19:00:44 LENGTH: 01:13 SOURCES: CBS Telenoticias RESTRICTIONS: No Access Puerto Rico/Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Natural Sound Hurricane Lenny is now centered off a string of Dutch and British Caribbean islands, having slammed its 150 mph winds against Puerto Rico and St. Croix, in the U-S Virgin Islands. Residents of Puerto Rico had scrambled to prepare for Hurricane Lenny, a late-season surprise that has gathered strength over the normally placid Caribbean in the past few days. 4-thousand- 725 people sought refuge in 191 shelters set up by the government, but in the end Lenny passed without causing serious damage, though one person died after falling from a ladder while trying to board up his windows. The late-season storm has killed at least four people from Colombia to Dutch St. Maarten in the northeast Caribbean. Puerto Ricans braced themselves on Wednesday for the onslaught of the latest hurricane to hit the Caribbean region. Having ripped into the Dominican Republic on Tuesday night, blowing over trees and destroying hundreds of homes, Hurricane Lenny veered northeast towards Puerto Rico. Storm damage was extensive- about 100-thousand people were without water, and 90-thousand people without electricity. But in terms of structural damage to property and roads, the island appears to have escaped relatively unscathed. The only death to have been reported so far is that of a man who fell to his death from a ladder while trying to board up his windows to protect them from the storm. But experts are warning people to expect flash floods and landslides in the wake of the storm. Many holiday makers are leaving the island, their trips already ruined. By 11 a.m. (1500 GMT) Wednesday, Lenny's winds had strengthened to 135 mph (215 kph), with gusts to 160 mph (256 kph), a Category 4 hurricane capable of extreme damage. Its center was located about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southwest of St. Croix and it was headed northeast at 12 mph (19 kph) on a path that could make a direct hit on the Virgin Islands. Officials in Puerto Rico and the U-S Virgin Islands warned that the storm could dump up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain. Puerto Rico is still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Georges, which hit in September 1998, steamrollered the island and killed more than 500 people throughout the Caribbean. Hurricane Lenny was an unwelcome surprise. The combination of the late date and easterly path left even experienced observers agape. Hurricane warnings are in effect for St. Martin, Anguilla, St. Kitt's and Nevis, Montserrat, St. Bart's, Saba, St. Eustatius and Antigua and Barbuda. SHOTLIST: San Juan, Puerto Rico - November 17, 1999 XFA 1. Man on beach 2. Surfers in water 3. Trees blown by wind 4. Close up of trees 5. Wide shot of trees 6. Man walking down street 7. Police on quad bikes 8. Various of people in airport waiting to leave 9. Walkers on sea front Keyword-weather?

NAME: CUB SUMMIT 20071221I TAPE: EF07/1517 IN_TIME: 11:25:42:20 DURATION: 00:03:00:23 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Cienfuegos - 21 Dec 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Cuban interim President Raul Castro arriving at opening ceremony of Petrocaribe summit 2. Pull out of Chavez and Castro taking their seats 3. Wide of conference room 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raul Castro, Interim President of Cuba: "We believe that this meeting contributes to further consolidate this agreement that is highly beneficial to our nations. Thanks to the solidarity of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Petrocaribe is much more than the fair solution to the serious energy problem faced by small countries that lack their own sources of hydrocarbons." 5. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque ( left) and Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage (right) 6. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega 7. President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela: "Petrocaribe goes beyond a simple mechanism of commercialising hydrocarbons. It is a mechanism that integrates, and beyond that, it unifies and beyond that, it liberates." 9. Cutaway of summit sign 10. Wide of conference room 11. Pull out of Chavez and Castro clapping 12. Truck driving down Cienfuegos street 13. Various of oil refinery that Chavez will restart 14. Various of houses, known as "petro-houses" donated by Chavez to Cuba, and built of material derived from petroleum. STORYLINE: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday celebrated his initiative to provide cheap oil to smaller nations, telling Caribbean leaders that the region must band together against the failed "dictatorship of world capitalism." Chavez opened the Petrocaribe summit in Cienfuegos, Cuba saying the plan should go beyond mere financing mechanisms, and suggested that some countries repay the oil with social services. He also called for creating an international fund to promote alternative energy sources. "Petrocaribe goes beyond a simple mechanism of commercialising hydrocarbons. It is a mechanism that integrates, and beyond that, it unifies and beyond that, it liberates," Chavez said. Petrocaribe is a group of 16 Latin American and Caribbean nations created as an alternative to Washington's unsuccessful Free Trade Area for the Americas. Venezuela provides about 5 billion US dollars to the region annually through long-term preferential financing under Petrocaribe and other similar initiatives, according to Chavez, who promotes the pact as part of a larger effort to create a "confederation of republics" from Argentina to Cuba independent of US influence. Chavez also paid tribute to his friend and ally, ailing Fidel Castro, who before failing ill in July 2006 had been the central figure at such regional events. The 81-year-old Castro has not been seen in public since he underwent emergency intestinal surgery 17 months ago, and his brother Raul, Cuba's provisional leader, was sitting in for him at the summit. "We believe that this meeting contributes to further consolidate this agreement that is highly beneficial to our nations," Raul Castro said. "Thanks to the solidarity of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Petrocaribe is much more than the fair solution to the serious energy problem faced by small countries that lack their own sources of hydrocarbons," he added. Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Rene Preval of Haiti and Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, were attending the summit as well as the leaders of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominca, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica. Lower-ranking officials from Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras and Guatemala were attending the sessions as observers.

NAME: CHN GRENADA 080705N TAPE: EF05/0607 IN_TIME: 10:54:52:16 DURATION: 00:01:53:23 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Beijing, 8 July 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Wide shot Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell arrive at welcoming ceremony 2. Medium shot two leaders 3. Wide shot welcoming ceremony 4. Close-up Grenada national flag 5. Medium wide shot two leaders 6. Close-up two leaders 7. Medium shot honour guards 8. Wide shot two leaders inspecting honour guards 9. Medium shot two leaders inspecting honour guards 10. Medium shot honour guards 11. Wide shot two leaders inspecting honour guards 12. Wide shot meeting between two delegations 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Keith Mitchell, Grenada Prime Minister: "(The decision made by) my government was believed to be the best decision for Grenada, and I believe China also certainly appreciates it." 14. Wide shot meeting 15. Close-up flags of the two countries 16. Wen and Grenada guests arriving at the signing ceremony 17. Mitchell and Wen 18. Wide shot signing ceremony 19. Medium shot pan from representative of Grenada delegation to representative of Chinese delegation at the signing ceremony 20. Close-up Mitchell's signing 21. Pan from Mitchell to Wen 22. Two representatives exchanging documents 23. Various of toasting for signing ceremony STORYLINE Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell met his Chinese counterpart Primer Wen Jiabao in Beijing on Friday. He was in the Chinese capital to negotiate new aid deals and finalise several agreements that arose from the island's decision to restore ties with China and sever relations with rival Taiwan. The two sides signed four documents in the Great Hall of People after their meeting. Mitchell's visit was aimed at ironing out deals for China to finance housing development projects and the construction of a new stadium in time for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, his office said on Thursday. He will also negotiate new agreements during the July 7-11 trip, including a deal for China to provide Grenada with budgetary support. The prime minister was accompanied by the ministers of finance and sports, as well as several business leaders. China's growing economic and political clout has persuaded several countries to switch allegiances away from Taiwan. Grenada established ties with China in January, leaving Taiwan with only four allies in the Caribbean - St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Beijing and Taipei have used dollar diplomacy for decades to win over small Caribbean nations. Although democratic Taiwan is self-governing, communist Beijing insists the island that broke away amid civil war in 1949 is still part of China. In March, China signed agreements to help build new stadiums in Grenada and Dominica, which cut ties with Taiwan last year. The West Indies will be hosting the Cricket World Cup for the first time.