Browsing by Author "Ingram, Simon (correspondent)"

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    Caribbean Report 03-03-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-03-03) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Pierre, Eric (interviewee); Ingram, Simon (correspondent); Webster, Rudi (interviewee); Stainer, Robin (interviewee); Ras, Blue (interviewee); Ras, Kassa (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Trade unionists in London have pledged support with Grenada’s trade union movement to shut down the country over stalled wage negotiations with government and the private sector. An investigation is being called into claims that Senior EC Commissioner Abel Matutes has business interest in Hotel Dominicana Fiesta which was the venue for a major ACP-EC meeting. The pressure mounting from the World Cup cricket match between West Indies and South Africa is being viewed as a psychological clash with the focus on the skills of Captain Richie Richardson. Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and Jamaica answer the call by London based commodities analyst Robin Stainer for Caribbean cocoa growers to upgrade the quality of cocoa to make its mark on an already slumping market. Finally, Ras Blue of the Centenary Committee for Rastafari and Ras Kassa of the London branch of the Ethiopian World Federation plan events in celebration of the birth of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.
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    Caribbean Report 04-03-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-03-04) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Ingram, Simon (correspondent); Baxter, Peter (correspondent); Procter, Mike (interviewee); Murray, Deryck (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Jamaica’s sugar workers strike and call on Prime Minister Michael Manley and Agriculture Minister Seymour Mullings to intervene in stalled negotiations with employers. Barbados Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford has been asked to intervene in a wage stand-off between sugar workers and industry managers. Dominica’s Prime Minister Dame Eugenia Charles continues her tour of Europe to secure support for Caribbean bananas in European markets. The EC Commissioners are still to decide on the complex banana protocol which could put Caribbean banana producers at a disadvantage with its big Latin American competitors. Both the West Indies and New Zealand cricket teams meet in their first World Cup clash. In a first official visit to Havana the West Indian Commission chairman, Sir Shridath Ramphal and President Fidel Castro agree that there can be no Caribbean integration without Cuba. The Cuban News Agency lashes out against its former allies in Eastern Europe who sided with the US to achieve a resolution condemning Cuba before the UN Human Rights Commission, branding them as the new aligned imperialism.
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    Caribbean Report 13-12-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-12-13) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Cabrisas, Ricardo (interviewee); Cleveland, Don (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Bell, Andrew (correspondent); Griffith, Leslie (interviewee); Waugh, Auberon (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Abdullah, Mohammed (interviewee); Ingram, Simon (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent)