In July, during a debate in the British Parliament...

In July, during a debate in the British Parliament on capital punishment in the Caribbean, Gerald Kaufman a Labour government backbencher said Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica received £20.4 million in 1997 from Britain and the European Union while Jamaica itself received £45.6 million in the same year - and both countries have the death penalty. "If people will not respond to appeals to their better nature or if they do not have a better nature, it seems to me that we should re-examine the generosity with which we deal with some of their requests for help."