Browsing by Author "Jean-Baptiste, Chavannes (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 10-10-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-10-10) Richards, Ken (anchor); Chaudhuri, Deepak (interviewee); Short, Peter (interviewee); Wolfensohn, James (interviewee); Brown, Richard (interviewee); Amat, Carlos (interviewee); Hutchinson, Earl Ofari (interviewee); Jean-Baptiste, Chavannes (interviewee); Gordon, Orin (correspondent); Atkinson, Tony (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this report an Indian-based firm United Breweries Limited has taken up the sponsoring of the West Indies cricket team and wants to change the team's name to reflect its product. Peter Short, President of the West Indies Cricket Board welcomed the sponsorship but said little on the proposed name change. Meanwhile, there are concerns over plans by the US to cut its contributions to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). British development agencies took out a full page advertisement to protest the proposals by the Overseas Development Agency (ODA) to cut bilateral aid to developing countries. At an anti-drug conference, Britain's Custom and Excise official, Richard Brown, warns that heroin could be the next threat for the Caribbean in the wake of cocaine transhipment. In the US, racial tensions remain high and the black/white divide has been magnified and expanded as a result of the O.J. Simpson not guilty verdict. Political analyst, Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson comments on just how widespread the racial crisis is in the US. In Haiti, the Lavalas spokesman Chavannes Jean-Baptiste has distanced the party from the recent gunning down of a former member of the Haitian Army. Volcanic eruptions in Montserrat pose great danger to the population and the economy by keeping the tourists away. However, British scientist Tony Atkinson states that the eruption could bring economic benefit to the island in an unexpected way.
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    Caribbean Report 26-01-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-01-26) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Bird, Lester (interviewee); Spencer, Baldwin (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Smith, Clifford (correspondent); Wearne, Phillip (correspondent); Jean-Baptiste, Chavannes (interviewee); Clark, Sarah (interviewee); Regan, Jane (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this Caribbean Report: Antigua's Prime Minister Lester Bird has indicated that he would be sticking to his financial tax plans despite the Opposition threat to call a general strike. Hugh Crosskill reports on an editorial in the prestigious Financial Times (FT) which states the European Union has gone bananas. In a published response, Bernard Cornibert, Managing Director of the Windward Island Banana Development and Exporting Company (WIBDECO), pointed out that ACP countries need trade not aid or handouts. In Brussels, Clifford Smith reports on negotiations to liberalize the European market for imported rum from the ACP group of countries. However, concerns have been raised by the French in the name of protecting their production of traditional dark rum. In Haiti, the government is calling on the international community for the speedy delivery of the promised aid package. Phillip Wearne interviews Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, leader of the largest peasant organization in Haiti, on the US strategy as Haiti is now a battlefield to two diametrically opposed models of development - one Haitian, the other American. Sarah Clark, Deputy Director of USAID in Haiti, is questioned on whether the ordinary Haitian should be very nervous about the intended structural adjustment plan, given the devastating social impacts on other Caribbean countries. And finally, John Paul Getty II, a reclusive billionaire has married his companion of twenty years, Victoria Holdsworth on December 29th in a secret ceremony in Barbados.