Browsing by Author "Best, Lloyd (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 11-06-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-06-11) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Collins, Rudy (interviewee); Best, Lloyd (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Samaroo, Brinsley (interviewee); Savarin, Anthony (interviewee); Leonce, Johannes (interviewee); Stevens, David (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 12-03-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-03-12) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Deyalsingh, Lennox (interviewee); Weatherhead, Clyde (interviewee); Maharaj, Ramesh Lawrence (interviewee); Best, Lloyd (interviewee); Rowe, Yvette (correspondent); Bottomley, Virginia (interviewee); Farley, John (interviewee); Truemper, Klaus (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The stage is set and the final agreement for Jamaica’s election campaign to feature political debates between the major parties– correspondent Gary Allen reports. Comments by a senior Trinidad and Tobago judge - Justice Lennox Deyalsingh, has stirred a philosophical debate in the country over democracy and the constitution. His comments coincided with recent protest action mounted by trade unions over a pay dispute with the government. Clyde Weatherhead, General Secretary of Public Service Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Lloyd Best, Economist TandT Institute of the West Indies are interviewed on this issue- correspondent Mike Jarvis reports. The Caribbean Tourism Organization and the European Commission have embarked on a three year 12 million project to develop the region’s tourism industry. The programme covers training and marketing and is focused largely on the European market. Correspondent Mike Jarvis reports from an interview with Klaus Truemper - Project Manager. Headlines in the British Press this week after it was revealed that two doctors continued practicing despite being HIV positive and health authorities knew and said nothing. This raised alarms for the testing of health care workers and again the issue of compulsory testing for AIDS in health care workers in the British press. The British Government has restated is stance on not making AIDS testing as stated by Britain’s Virginia Bottomley and Dr. John Farley – CAREC Trinidad reports. Correspondent Yvette Rowe reports.
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    Caribbean Report 27-01-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-01-27) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Best, Lloyd (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Fergus, Howard (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Hunte, Julian (interviewee); Douglas, Michael (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Reports address the disruption of a political meeting held by the Prime Minister in Haiti, Rene Theodore in which his bodyguard was shot and killed and on speculations of the return of ousted President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. There are also reports on the reconsideration of the hosting of Carifesta by the Trinidad and Tobago government and on the consideration of new proposals. News out of Jamaica report on the stance of officials that they have been adhering to their comittments they undertook at the last Caricom summit in St. Kitts in light of questions raised on the seriousness to Caricom integration by Sir Shridath Ramphal. In St. Lucia the opposition claims that a planned meeting by the Constituency Boundaries Commission is for the realigning of political boundaries for the purpose of giving the ruling party an unfair advantage.
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    Caribbean Report 27-12-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-12-27) Richards, Ken (anchor); Hayes, Rosie (correspondent); Castro, Fidel (interviewee); Formell, Juan (interviewee); Burac, Maurice (interviewee); Best, Lloyd (interviewee); Douglas, Rosie (interviewee); Garner, Joel (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Rush, George (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this report, Cuban President Fidel Castro strongly criticised sugar workers and the construction industry for poor results and not achieving their targets. Castro also attacked the Cuban dollar-earners and stated it was time for them to pay income taxes. Meanwhile, a truck being used as a bus skidded off a mountain road in Cuba which killed at least fifteen people including three children and injured sixty-five people. Universite des Antilles et Guyane official Maurice Burac argued that the issue of licenses affecting trade between the French and English-speaking Caribbean should be addressed. French President Jacques Chirac has sent a message to congratulate Haiti's President-elect Rene Preval. The Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies, Lloyd Best states that he would like to see not only constitutional reform but also political and economic change in the Caribbean. Best comments on the spate of government changes in the region with particular focus on Trinidad and Jamaica. Dominica's Opposition Leader Rosie Douglas believes that Ecuadorian banana company, NOBIA will now support American objections to Europe's banana regime since it has lost out in its attempt to buy Geest. In cricket, former fast bowler Joel Garner argues that management must shoulder some of the blame for the team's poor run of form in Australia and stresses that Brian Lara will have a hard time fitting back into the team. In Bermuda, George Rush reports on the headline in the Bermuda Sun newspaper which states that the island has more prisoners per capita than any other democracy. Britain's Princess Diana has slipped out of London for a Caribbean vacation after a miserable Christmas.