Browsing by Author "Howell, Colville (interviewee)"

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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 06-05-1993
    (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.