Browsing by Author "Douglas, Michael (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 25-05-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-05-25) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Whitehorne, Pat (correspondent); Lall, Ganesh (interviewee); Beharry, Harikrishna (interviewee); Schiff, Jan (correspondent); Boero, Michael (correspondent); Douglas, Michael (interviewee); James, Edison (interviewee); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Fernandes, Bonny (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Guyanese for Democracy stepped up its efforts to focus international attention on Guyana’s electoral system. The London branch staged a protest demonstration outside the Guyana’s High Commission as a follow-up to a similar demonstration held in New York recently. Secondly, Haiti’s provisional president, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, spends a second day in Washington addressing the OAS, as well as meeting with President Bush. Following the Financial News, voters in Dominica are gearing up for Monday’s general elections. Prime Minister, Eugenia Charles, and her party are seeking a third consecutive term in office amidst intense campaigning from the two major opposition parties. The next segment covered the Stories of Caribbean interest appearing in the British press. The report concluded with mounting concerns about global warming from the international community and Guyana’s attempts to save its rainforests and rivers without external assistance.
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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.