CARIBBEAN

CARIBBEAN WHEREAS the government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to manipulate public opinion and to harass newspapers, denying them access to public information the government of Antigua and Barbuda continues to deny Radio Observer its legal right to broadcast and a judge has delayed action on the radio station's challenge despite his commitment to mie by January 1997 the government of Trinidad and Tobago has published a Green Paper on Media Law Reform which proposes, inter alia, the appointment of an Ombudsman and punitive measures against the press which is opposed by the Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association and the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago a law of this nature would seriously harm freedom of the press THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE lAPA RESOLVES to urge the government of Antigua and Barbuda uphold the right to broadcast, for which Radio Observer has been granted a license and to deplore the long delay by the court in giving its decision to urge the government of Antigua and Barbuda to grant its citizens complete guarantees of their right to receive unrestricted information from different news sources to call upon the government of Trinidad and Tobago to withdraw the Green Paper and cease its harassment of members of the Trinidad and Tobago media.