Browsing by Author "Jackman, Oliver (interviewee)"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Caribbean Report 20-04-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-04-20) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Barrow, Nita, 1916-1995 (interviewee); Jackman, Oliver (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Grant, Bernie (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Dame Nita Barrow is named as the next Governor-General of Barbados and will be sworn in on the 6th June. Over the years, she has gained an international reputation as an eminent and outspoken representative of her country and the region, and assures that this admirable outspokenness will not be muzzled by her new appointment. Secondly, a spokesman for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights states that the Commission is optimistic about the staging of free and fair elections in Haiti and the reduction in the level of Haitian human rights abuses. Following the Financial News, the Dominican Republic is on the brink of another general elections and the left-wing candidate, Juan Bosch, holds a lead in a recent gallop poll for the 16th May elections. The next segment provided a round-up of the stories of Caribbean interest appearing in the British press. The report concludes with the continuation of an anti-Vivian Richards campaign in the British press after the recent victory of the West Indies cricket team against England. Bernie Grant, British Labour MP, further added that the British press is generally unfair, racially bias and reactionary, and has now turned its attention to the West Indies cricketers.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Caribbean Report 31-01-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-01-31) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Yuille-Williams, Joan (interviewee); Clarke, Leroy (interviewee); Brathwaite, Nicholas (interviewee); Thompson, Pat (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Blades, Hayden (interviewee); Jackman, Oliver (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The Trinidad and Tobago government decides to cancel its scheduled hosting of Carifesta, due to budgetary constraints. There is a call for a common position on the Common Extenal Tariff (CET) by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (O.E.C.S.) and the complications of this to the implementation of the CET is highlighted. The chairman of the O.E.C.S., Nicholas Brathwaite, says the present tariff structure of the CET is against the best interest of the region. There is a report on the proposal to be presented by the Caricom secretariat on the attempt to create a single market and the Director of Trade and Agriculture, Haydon Blades of the Gerogetown based Secretariat is inteviewed. He says that the Caricom treaty is too rigid and that member states may respond to a structure that offers a greater degree of choice. There are reports also on the statements made by three leading figures of Caricom which it is said cast a shadow over attempts to create a truly dynamic regional integration movement. An assesment is made of these statements by Barbadian atorney, Oliver Jackman.