Browsing by Author "De Ronceray, Hubert (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 12-03-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-03-12) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Thompson, Alan (correspondent); De Ronceray, Hubert (interviewee); Bell, Stephen (analyst); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Jones, Ben (interviewee); Brathwaite, Nicholas (interviewee); Mitchell, Keith (interviewee); Gairy, Eric (interviewee); Emmanuel, Patrick (interviewee); Saunders, Nick (interviewee); Edwards, Andy (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Deposed military leader, General Prosper Avril flew into exile this morning aboard an American military plane after days of violent unrest and demonstrations. The toppled government clears the way for the appointment of the country’s first woman president, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot of the Haitian Supreme Court. Irate protesters call on the United States to deport General Avril back to Haiti to face a trial. Following the Financial News, the Grenadians go to the polls tomorrow and the report explores the possibility of a coalition government if no one party wins a majority. The final segment addresses the future coaching and political plans of Nick Sauders, Bermuda’s high jumper who won the men’s high jump title at the British National Indoor Championships.
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    Caribbean Report 16-07-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-07-16) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Hockaday, Mary (correspondent); Stainer, Robin (analyst); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); De Ronceray, Hubert (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    A number of diplomats at the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Havana are taken hostage by a group of Cubans seeking political asylum from the Czechoslovakian government which has been sympathetic to the plight of Cubans under the Castro regime. Following the Financial News, the major opposition party in Guyana, the People’s Progressive party, is a force to be reckoned with as it gains momentum on the campaign trail by attracting large crowds at public meetings. The report concludes with an ultimatum issued by six of Haiti’s political parties to President Trouillot for the arrest of Roger Lafontant and Williams Regala by noon today. Despite no arrest taking place, President Trouillot has decided that the arrest of these two former military leaders is imminent.
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    Caribbean Report 22-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-22) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); De Ronceray, Hubert (interviewee); Roy, Louis (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Jarman, Brian (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Hallmark, Richard (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program features the expulsion of prominent opposition leaders from Haiti by President Prosper Avril. The ousted leaders comment that the state of siege in Haiti diminishes the occurrence of free and fair elections, and moves Haiti closer towards an era of Duvalism. Following the Financial Market news, the report covers the ruling by the Privy Council in London that Antigua’s public order law breached the constitutional freedom of expression. This ruling came about after an Antiguan journalist, Tim Hector, published a report in his newspaper (the Outlet) that the Antiguan government was involved in the kidnapping of a cocaine trafficker three years earlier. The final segment reports that the Cuban authorities have imposed harsher bread rationing in the face of mounting instability in the Soviet Union. Cuba’s problems are also compounded by increasing tensions with Washington over the broadcasting of TV Marti in Cuba.
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    Caribbean Report 22-03-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-03-22) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Norton, Michael (correspondent); De Ronceray, Hubert (interviewee); Ford, Henry (interviewee); Savarin, Charles (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Political unrest in Haiti leads to a state of urban terrorism with the recent killing of more than 30 people within a few days. Hugh Crosskill reports on the shooting of the wife of Hubert De Ronceray, a leading opposition member, who also comments on the inability of the government to control the unrest. Following the Financial News, two high-profile Americans, Sally Cowal (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs) and Senator Edward Kennedy express the need to ensure that the upcoming elections in Guyana is free and fair. According to Henry Ford of the Barbados Labour Party, the US interest in Guyana highlights the inactiveness of the Caricom leaders to maintain open and free elections in Guyana. Stories of Caribbean Interest appearing in the British Press include the controversial comments by Michael Stein (British Conservation MP) of “niggers in the woodpile;” British equality programme to produce the first black leader of the civil service; the contentious quotes by cricketer Brian Lara, “I can do Viv’s job now;” and Lord Anthony Gifford (left-wing barrister) leaves Britain with his wife Elaine Thomas to begin a new legal career in Jamaica. The final segment briefly covers the discussions of the Joint Assembly of the ACP and EEC on the implications of the Single Market Economy in 1992 for the ACP states.