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Item Caribbean Report 03-10-1990(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-10-03) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Harris, Reuben (interviewee); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Goodwin, Mark (interviewee); Ramphal, Shridath (interviewee); Wayne, Rick (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 07-03-1994(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1994-03-07) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Cooper, Lou Blanc (interviewee); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Roberts, Michael (interviewee); Halls, Robert (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 07-05-1991(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014-07-27) Goffe, Leslie (anchor); Greenidge, Carl (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Thompson, Pat (interviewee); Rumulous, Charles (interviewee); Nimvalle, Pete (interviewee); Islam, Shada (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 08-03-1989(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-03-08) Timmins, Jerry (anchor); Tomlinson, Alan (correspondent); Halstead, Donald (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Coon, Tim (correspondent); Smiley, Doreen Wilson (interviewee); Bennish, Peter (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationQueen Elizabeth II visits Barbados and is to address the island’s three hundred and fifty years of Parliament. The people of Antigua and Barbuda go to the polls tomorrow with the ruling Antigua Labour Party dominated by Vere Bird, Sr. predicting a victory. Opposition candidates are highly critical of the unfair poll leads by the government. Ministers from the European Community and Central America meet at a summit in Honduras to improve trade, particularly “dollar bananas”. In London, a new development agency was launched on International Women’s Day, Womankind. This agency would look at the needs and aspirations of women in developing countries, promoting and funding their initiatives. The Canadian enquiry into drug use by athletes continues with lawyers for Ben Johnson and Dr. Jamie Asterfan taking the stand.Item Caribbean Report 09-01-1995(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-01-09) Orr, Carol (anchor); Patterson, P. J. (interviewee); Alleyne, Gary (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Skerritt, Ricky (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Tomlinson, Clare (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationIn Jamaica, Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson reshuffled his Cabinet relieving three experienced ministers of their portfolios. These ministers are O. D. Ramtallie, Carlyle Dunkley and Desmond Leakey. Core ministries were also reduced from seventeen to fifteen. Journalist Gary Alleyne was interviewed on the Cabinet reshuffle and comments on whether he thinks the ministers were leaving voluntarily or are being forced out. Mr. Patterson made the changes to make government more effective and responsive to the poor since there was widespread discontent in the society. There is talk that two further resignations are expected. The debate on the pros and cons of casino gambling in the Caribbean has resurfaced. Advocates cited the benefits of tourism and foreign exchange earnings, while opponents expressed fears of increased levels of crime and prostitution. Tim Hector, Antiguan newspaper editor and St. Kitts/Nevis Chamber of Commerce President Ricky Skerritt are interviewed on their experiences and to find out whether these fears are well founded. Racism in Britain's football terraces rears its ugly head once again. Two black footballers, John Barnes and Ian Wright have been jeered by so-called supporters. Hugh Crosskill interviewed Clare Tomlingson, Media Relations Officer, for the Football Association on some of the methods implemented to stamp out racism in British football. The Football Offensive Act of 1991, makes racial chanting and abuse an offence which can lead to an arrest and the use of peer pressure are expected to act as deterrents to this type of behaviour. The programme ends with a report about former West Indies opener, Desmond Haynes, who has been released from his contract with the South African Club Western Province to return home in order to play cricket for Barbados.Item Caribbean Report 09-03-1989(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-03-09) Patrick, Soraya (anchor); Tomlinson, Alan (correspondent); Johnson, Len (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Hunte, Julian (interviewee); Bennish, Peter (correspondent); Abbott, Diane (interviewee); Ali, Arif (interviewee); Darling, Alistair (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationThe people of Antigua and Barbuda vote today at what may be the last general elections contested by veteran Prime Minister, Vere Bird Sr. The Antiguan opposition parties complain of irregularities in voting procedures. St. Lucia’s opposition labour party leader, John Hunt is in London lobbying on behalf of the Windward Island banana producers for continued preferential treatment when Europe becomes a single market in 1992. At the Canadian enquiry into drug use by amateur athletes, Dr. Jamie Asterfan confessed to supplying drugs to the Canadian athletes. In Britain, three Black Members of Parliament announced the formation a Parliamentary Black Caucus with a focus on Black and Asian communities.Item Caribbean Report 10-03-1994(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1994-03-10) Orr, Carol (anchor); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Rowe, Yvette (correspondent); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Gamble, Ray (interviewee); Corum, Robert (interviewee); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Hilbourne, Frank (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 11-03-1991(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-03-11) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Heath, Ivor (interviewee); Gonsalves, Brian (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); James, Canute (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationSeven senior members of the ruling Antigua Labour Party has written to 81 year old Prime Minister, Dr. Vere Bird, Snr. to resign from politics before 14th March, 1991. This report seeks to find out how firm is the seven Ministers and their resolve to see the Prime Minister go and how likely will CARICOM’s longest serving leader give up without a fight. This development is shaping up as the most critical week in the modern history of Antigua’s politics. The government under the leadership of Dr. Bird Snr. is in a midst of a constitutional crisis highlighted by his inability to present last week’s budget in a legally and procedurally required manner. Several political figures in Antigua provide their insights into the political crisis facing the country.Item Caribbean Report 14-11-1990(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-11-14) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Savarin, Charles (interviewee); Birdsman, Joel (interviewee); Gibbs, Lance (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 16-02-1989(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-02-16) Patrick Soraya (anchor); Hector, Tim (interviewee); O'Neal, Allen (interviewee); Hindley, Michael (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationOn the day that elections is expected to be announced in Antigua, opposition leader, Tim Hector of the Antiguan Caribbean Liberation Movement cites corruption as one of the major issues and lists his strategies to win the elections. The influential New Yorker Magazine describes Antigua as a playpen for Prime Minister Bird and his son. In the British Virgin Islands, Alan O'Neil of the newly formed political party, the Independent People's Movement speaks of the need for the revision of the British Nationality Act which disenfranchise immigrant women who marries local men, and their offspring. At the meeting of the Ministerial Group of ACP/EEC members at Brazzaville, British Euro MP Michael Hindley asks Secretary General, Edwin Carrington to raise the issue of the worldwide ban on the skin lightening poisonous mercury iodide soap that was banned for sales in Europe but exported to third world countries.Item Caribbean Report 16-05-1990(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-05-16) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Stainer, Robin (analyst); Ashford, Kevin (correspondent); McGowan, Michael (interviewee); Porter, Adrian (correspondent); Norton, Michael (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationElections day in the Dominican Republic and amongst the first to vote was Juan Bosch, the frontrunner in the election race according to all the polls. The morning period saw long lines at the polling stations without any major incidence reported. Secondly, Vere Bird Sr., the Prime Minister of Antigua, met with his Cabinet and they agreed on the terms of reference for the Commission of Enquiry to investigate the arms scandal in Antigua. Whilst the meeting was in progress, the two opposition parties, the UNDP and the ACLM, joined forces to protest outside the prime minister’s office. Following the Financial News, the Green Parties in the European Parliament failed to block parliamentary approval of the fourth Lome agreement on trade and aid between the EEC and the ACP group of countries. The report concludes with the announcement by the United States that it has resumed official aid to Haiti after a one-year suspension due to evidence of political fraud in the national elections and continuing abuse of human rights.Item Caribbean Report 18-12-1990(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-12-18) Patrick, Soraya (anchor); Montague, Michelle (correspondent); Johnson, Campbell (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Pantin, Clive (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Hoyte, Desmond (speaker); Hector, Tim (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 20-12-1996(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-12-20) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Niles, Bertram (anchor); Carrington, Edwin (interviewee); Grant, Jennifer (correspondent); Lewis Cooper, Marjorie (interviewee); Polius, Julius (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Johnson, Gwendoline (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 21-07-1988(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1988-07-21) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Tomlinson, Alan (correspondent); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Adams, David (correspondent); Treasure, Beverley (correspondent); Gill, Ken (interviewee); Mills, Gloria (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Johnson, Christopher (analyst); Stott, Robert (interviewee); Gavaskar, Sunil (interviewee); Lewis, Tony (correspondent); The British Broadcasting CorporationThis programme features highlights of pre-election activities in Antigua and Barbuda, and power struggles within the ranks of the Antigua Labour Party in the wake of the imminent retirement of Prime Minister Vere Bird Snr. It also reports on the devastating effects of inflation in the Dominican Republic, takes a brief look at issues coming out of a conference on black workers in trade unions and includes highlights of the 4th test match between the West Indies and England at Headingley.Item 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 CorporationThe 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.Item Caribbean Report 23-05-2001(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-05-23) Richards, Ken (anchor); Derrick, Winston (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Anthony, Kenny (interviewee); Gordon, Orin (correspondent); Hancock, Christine (interviewee); Weir, Karen (correspondent); Walcott, Clotil (interviewee); Reddock, Rhoda (interviewee); Partap, Harry (interviewee); Chambers, Basil (correspondent); Bacher, Ali (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 27-08-1991(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-08-27) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Jessop, David (interviewee); Williams, Eddie (correspondent); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Pack, Chris (analyst); Cox, Winston (interviewee); The British Broadcasting CorporationItem Caribbean Report 29-05-1996(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-05-29) Orr, Carol (anchor); Brizan, George (interviewee); Murray, Winston (interviewee); Grant, Bernie (interviewee); Maynard, Charles (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Rowley, Keith (interviewee); Valley, Kenneth (interviewee); Hector, Tim (interviewee); Bennendijk, Chandra van (correspondent); Gordon, Warren (correspondent); Bradman, Donald (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation