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    Caribbean Report 01-09-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-09-01) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Jagan, Cheddi (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Barrett, Margaret (speaker); Maynard, Charles (speaker); Frechette, Myles (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 02-01-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-01-02) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Meeks, Brian (interviewee); Patterson, P. J. (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Anchor, Mike Jarvis and various correspondents explore a number of issues in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and Guyana. In Jamaica the withdrawal of P.J Patterson, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Michael Manley is reported. The report on Haiti explores the situation of ousted Presidnet Jean-Bertrand Aristide, while that on Cuba report on claims by the government regarding foreign help to dissidents. Guyana's election campaign and the position of President Desmond Hoyte on a democratic election process is reported on.
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    Caribbean Report 02-06-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-06-02) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Nicholls, Neville (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Ashford, Mike (interviewee); Orr, Carol (correspondent); Brenner, Philip (interviewee); Esquivel, Manuel (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 02-09-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-09-02) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Gregory, Errol (interviewee); Robinson, Anthony (speaker); Ross, Charles (speaker); Harvey, Dave (correspondent); Marquis, Elisha (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 03-02-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-02-03) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Grant, Eddie (interviewee); Leggett, Jeremy (interviewee); Ellis, John (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Kaufman, Gerald (interviewee); Patterson, P. J. (interviewee); Pickersgill, Robert Dixon (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Osborne, John (interviewee); Eggar, Tim (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The environmental pressure group – Green peace is urging Caribbean insurance companies to join its lobby against fossil fuels. In an interview with correspondent Mike Jarvis, Dr. Jeremy Leggett - geologist and environmental campaigner for Greenpeace warns of the dangers climate related losses caused by fossil fuel.John Ellis – CBE Chairman and CEO of Fyffes wholesale group in an interview with Mike Jarvis reported a 5% increase in pre tax profits. Mr. Ellis also noted that Caribbean regional profit bananas contributed significantly to this year’s growth despite more difficult trading conditions. Jamaica’s National Security Minister K.D. Knight has hit back at the British Opposition Labour Party for its stance on Jamaica’s death penalty. In response Snr. British MP Gerard Kauffman – says it’s not just the death penalty issue but also the inhumane amount of time that inmates spend on death row. The Jamaican Daily Gleaner Newspaper red headlines - “Sex Talk by Phone” created a sex talk row scandal between Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson and Robert Dixon Pickersgill (aka Booby Pickersgill) – Public Utilities Minister Jamaica regarding granting a proposed license for an adult entertainment network - correspondent Gary Allen reports. John Osborne Former Chief Minister of Montserrat has resumed his criticisms of the British Governor after being been acquitted of corruption and conspiracy charges. He says that the investigation by Scotland Yard was part of a British Government attempt to get rid of him. He also stated race politics against Montserrat was an issue. Tim Eggar – British Foreign Office Minister defends the British Government’s stance on the allegations and Britain’s relationship with its dependent territories. Internationally renowned Guyanese born pop star Eddie Grant is recovering in a Georgetown hospital after falling critically ill while on vacation with his mother.
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    Caribbean Report 03-03-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-03-03) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Stone, Carl Ebenezer McDougall (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); McDermott, Jennifer (interviewee); Brown, George Arthur (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Fisher, Sophie (correspondent); Clinton, Bill (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The Privy Council squashed the review of two death row inmates, who have been reclassified as capital murderers under the Review of the Status of Death Row Inmates – correspondent Mike Jarvis reports from an interview with attorney Jennifer McDermott. A Jamaican woman and follower of US cult leader Vernon Wayne Howell), the Branch Davidians, a Waco, Texas-based cult, she left Britain with her teenage daughter to join the cult. Her husband was flown to Texas by a daily British newspaper with exclusive rights to his story - he will be reunited with his daughter who has been released. A Memorial service was held for one of the first regional academics, Jamaican born academic Dr. Carl Ebenezer McDougall Stone of the UWI. He became well known for his many penetrating, analytical and challenging lecturers. He was a distinguished thinker, author, and academic, he left his legacy for his brilliant political polling career – with his accurate predictions of every outcome of elections since 1976 – correspondent Gary Allen reports. Caribbean Economist and distinguished regional academic, George Arthur Brown has died at 51 years old. He worked behind the scenes on the development of a Caribbean Stock Exchange - correspondent Mike Jarvis reports from a past interview with the late George Arthur Brown. Former Guyana Prime Minister Hamilton Greene has allegedly breeched standard airport procedures by not clearing customs and immigration, on departing Guyana via private aircraft. Hamilton Greens has apologized and claims that here may have been a misunderstanding. The Civil Aviation Department is conducting an investigation and the matter has gone before cabinet for a decision - correspondent Sheriff Khan reports. The Haitian delegation at the UN Human Rights Council has repeated a call for an end of Human Rights abuse in Haiti and the restoration of democracy – correspondent Mike Jarvis reports from an interview with correspondent Sophie Fisher who comments on the views of Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Marco Tulio Bruni Celli. President Bill Clinton retracts his criticism of the Bush administration of dealing with returning Haitian refugees. The Caribbean Human Rights Network expressed shock at President Clinton’s statement – correspondent Mike Jarvis reports on Clinton’s statement.
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    Caribbean Report 03-09-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-09-03) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Patterson, P. J. (interviewee); Rowe, Yvette (correspondent); Page, Sheila (speaker); Watkins, Kevin (speaker); Compton, John (speaker); Carrington, Edwin (speaker); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 03-11-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-11-03) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Williams, Eddie (correspondent); Brandt, David (speaker); Osborne, Bertrand (interviewee); Birns, Larry (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 04-01-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-01-04) Roe, Yvette (anchor); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Little, Cheryl (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Perreira, Joseph 'Reds' (correspondent); Lara, Brian (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The leader of Guyana's PNC - former President Desmond Hoyte is bringing Guyana's opposition leader Hamilton Green before the party's disciplinary committee. About 170 Haitian refugees in Miami have gone on hunger strike over unfair US immigration practices, they have vowed not to eat anything except water until they are treated like Cuban refugees. Speculation continues unabated over the possibility of premature general elections to be called in Jamaica by Prime Minister Percival Noel James Patterson. Parliamentary rejection of an agreement between the Suriname Government and two large bauxite companies is leading to large scale economic disruption in the country - the agreement was over the rate of exchange demanded by the bauxite companies a rate of 1.8 Sur guilders to the US dollar but the rate was thrown out in parliament. A record breaking partnership between Brian Lara and Richie Richardson of the West Indies team have posted an impressive reply to Australia’s mammoth first innings total 503-9 declared, which featured an unbeaten - 248:2 by Brian Lara in his maiden test century. Lara and Richardson combined to establish a new West Indies partnership in Australia of 217 runs, their marathon third record stand was also a test record for the Sydney cricket ground, that saved the match and the day. Brian Lara in an interview with BBC correspondent Reds Pereirra gives his thoughts on the condition that attributed to the West Indies victory in the match 7. (12:49-15:09)
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    Caribbean Report 04-03-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-03-04) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Ingram, Simon (correspondent); Baxter, Peter (correspondent); Procter, Mike (interviewee); Murray, Deryck (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Jamaica’s sugar workers strike and call on Prime Minister Michael Manley and Agriculture Minister Seymour Mullings to intervene in stalled negotiations with employers. Barbados Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford has been asked to intervene in a wage stand-off between sugar workers and industry managers. Dominica’s Prime Minister Dame Eugenia Charles continues her tour of Europe to secure support for Caribbean bananas in European markets. The EC Commissioners are still to decide on the complex banana protocol which could put Caribbean banana producers at a disadvantage with its big Latin American competitors. Both the West Indies and New Zealand cricket teams meet in their first World Cup clash. In a first official visit to Havana the West Indian Commission chairman, Sir Shridath Ramphal and President Fidel Castro agree that there can be no Caribbean integration without Cuba. The Cuban News Agency lashes out against its former allies in Eastern Europe who sided with the US to achieve a resolution condemning Cuba before the UN Human Rights Commission, branding them as the new aligned imperialism.
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    Caribbean Report 05-04-1994
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1994-04-05) Orr, Carol (anchor); Pryce, Michael (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Branford, Sue (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Baxter, Peter (correspondent); Fletcher, Keith (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 05-05-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-05-05) Jones, James Martin (interviewee); Howell, Colville (interviewee); Bryan, Anthony T. (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Williams, Colin (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Caribbean countries are again caught up in controversy in the international whaling commission. The US has outlined elements of its foreign policy, virtually leaving the Caribbean off the agenda. Jamaica’s inflation rate which once peaked at 105 percent at the end of 1992 had fallen to 21.5 percent by the end of March, 1993. Cuba is seeking international help to combat an epidemic of an eye disease which is now threatening over 25,000 with blindness. The rift in the Mitchell administration over a health directive appears to have been pushed aside by a local protest.
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    Caribbean Report 06-03-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-03-06) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Venner, Dwight (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Bacher, Ali (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Dominica’s Prime Minister Dame Eugenia Charles reports that as she ends her visit to European commissioners involved in the upcoming GATT negotiations, many of them remain undecided about the banana issue. Governor of Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Dwight Venner, expresses his confidence that OECS states have the capacity to withstand significant shocks resulting from the possible loss of preferential treatment in the upcoming GATT negotiations regarding the banana trade. Interim Haitian president Joseph Nérette in defiance of an OAS backed plan to restore President Jean Bertrand Aristide refuses to step down claiming that the agreement is illegal. Jamaica’s sugar, flour and banana industries struggle to meet foreign and local quotas owing to strike action of more than 15000 workers. Finally, the South African cricket team's tour of the West Indies is being viewed as a momentous occasion in South African, West Indian and world cricket.
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    Caribbean Report 06-04-1994
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1994-04-06) Orr, Carol (anchor); Fairley, Ian (correspondent); Valley, Ken (interviewee); Rampersad, Frank (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Fergus, Howard (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 06-05-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-05-06) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Jones, James Martin (interviewee); Howell, Colville (interviewee); Bryan, Anthony T. (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Small, Richard (interviewee); Williams, Colin (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Mc Leod, Errol (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Jamaica’s National Security and Justice Minister K. D. Knight says that violent crimes linked to deportees has led to a bill monitoring and restricting the movement of deportees convicted elsewhere. British banana and food distributing company Geist hit the financial headlines as their shares fell by almost a third, partly linked to a drop in banana prices in Europe. The president of the National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago says that governments must be held accountable for the economic policies, even if those policies are largely dictated by external forces. A group of Cuban exiles and their opponents in Havana have just ended a meeting on democracy held in Cuba.
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    Caribbean Report 06-08-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-08-06) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Coore, David (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Simmonds, Kennedy (interviewee); Lye, Clairmont (interviewee); Jagan, Cheddi (speaker); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 06-08-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-08-06) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Mathur, Mahendra (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Ouseley, Herman (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); O'Meara, Sebastian (correspondent)
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    Caribbean Report 06-11-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-11-06) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Jessop, David (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Patterson, P. J. (speaker); Seaga, Edward (speaker); Fadipe, Charlotte (correspondent); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Benson, Howard (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 07-01-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-01-07) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Weatherhead, Clyde (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); O'Neil, Bill (interviewee); Rowe, Yvette (interviewee); Blanco, Herman (interviewee); Simmons, David (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    One of Trinidad and Tobago’s unions responds to Prime Minister Manning’s warning against militancy.Trinidad and Tobago‘s main public service union says it is willing to continue talking with government but warns that public servants need some sort of deal soon, since it’s members are owed some 3 billion TTD in back pay arrears – Debbie Ransome interviews Clyde Weatherhead, PSA Secretary General on how aggressively the union is pursuing the claim. The opposition Jamaican Labour Party continues to be dogged by public perception of remaining risks within the party some two years after the now famous gang of five issue with speculation running high in Jamaica over the possibility of snap elections - Gary Allen investigates US human rights officials say that Bill Clinton needs to deal with the cause of Haiti’s crisis not just the symptoms, correspondent Debbie Ransome interviews Bill O’Neil. In the face of severe economic constraints the Cuban government has embarked on an ambitious marketing drive targeting both traditional and non-traditional markets, using the hard sell in its international envious medical services – Yvette Rowe interviews Herman Blanco, Cuban Ambassador. The Barbados government responds to its privatization critics, and is proceeding with the sale of Government shares in several state corporations. Privatization of the state transportation system is also being considered in order to clear the debts of several of the enterprises - correspondent Sandra Baptiste interviews David Simmons, Barbados Junior Finance Minister. Voters go to the poles in Aruba tomorrow to elect a new 21 member parliament.
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    Caribbean Report 07-05-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-05-07) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Joseph, Maynard (interviewee); Theodore, Carl (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Forbes, Glenroy (interviewee); Peters, Richard (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Lewis, Margaret (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The international whaling commission meets in Japan next week. Top of the agenda will be plans to set up a whaling centre in Antarctic and a moratorium on commercial whaling. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning last night announced a series of meshes to alleviate the impact of the floatation of the dollar in some hard hit sectors of the community. The government of Puerto Rico has hinted that more alterations to the 936 programme particularly in the area of tourism – 936 a special lending facility is now being reviewed in Puerto Rico and Washington. The attraction of offshore financial services as a revenue earner in the region is being highlighted by a leading industry publication - Offshore Outlook reports that the British Virgin Islands has had the most phenomenal growth in the sector in the region - 21, 0000 international business corporations which are tax shelters facilities were registered there last year a significant increase from 1991. There are fears that Caribbean soldiers might become caught up in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia as the UN considers the possibility of extending its involvement in the war torn area. In sport, a Lennox Lewis victory in the heavy weight fight with Tony Tucker could lead to a Caribbean heavy weight showdown in September in Britain.