Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is currently on board a plane en route to the Central African Republic. She is accompanying a delegation that will escort President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Jamaica, which has offered to host him. The delegation includes Rep. Maxine Waters, Randall Robinson, an emmisary of the Jamaican prime minister as well as Aristide's lawyer, Ira Kurzban. The only other journalist accompanying the delegation is Peter Eisner of the Washington Post. The delegation is expected to arrive in the Central African Republic on Sunday, March 14, and is expected to arrive in Jamaica, along with the Aristides, on Monday March 15, 2004. Democracy Now! will be providing reports throughout the weekend.
*** This is a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive. Check the Democracy Now! website -- http://www.democracynow.org -- regularly for the latest news on this historic trip. *** Around 9 p.m. on Saturday night, Amy Goodman filed her first report shortly before the delegation left for the Central African Republic. Read Transcript & Listen to MP3: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/13/1835255 - - - - - - Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/

