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    Caribbean Report 03-02-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-02-03) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Grant, Eddie (interviewee); Leggett, Jeremy (interviewee); Ellis, John (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Kaufman, Gerald (interviewee); Patterson, P. J. (interviewee); Pickersgill, Robert Dixon (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Osborne, John (interviewee); Eggar, Tim (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The environmental pressure group – Green peace is urging Caribbean insurance companies to join its lobby against fossil fuels. In an interview with correspondent Mike Jarvis, Dr. Jeremy Leggett - geologist and environmental campaigner for Greenpeace warns of the dangers climate related losses caused by fossil fuel.John Ellis – CBE Chairman and CEO of Fyffes wholesale group in an interview with Mike Jarvis reported a 5% increase in pre tax profits. Mr. Ellis also noted that Caribbean regional profit bananas contributed significantly to this year’s growth despite more difficult trading conditions. Jamaica’s National Security Minister K.D. Knight has hit back at the British Opposition Labour Party for its stance on Jamaica’s death penalty. In response Snr. British MP Gerard Kauffman – says it’s not just the death penalty issue but also the inhumane amount of time that inmates spend on death row. The Jamaican Daily Gleaner Newspaper red headlines - “Sex Talk by Phone” created a sex talk row scandal between Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson and Robert Dixon Pickersgill (aka Booby Pickersgill) – Public Utilities Minister Jamaica regarding granting a proposed license for an adult entertainment network - correspondent Gary Allen reports. John Osborne Former Chief Minister of Montserrat has resumed his criticisms of the British Governor after being been acquitted of corruption and conspiracy charges. He says that the investigation by Scotland Yard was part of a British Government attempt to get rid of him. He also stated race politics against Montserrat was an issue. Tim Eggar – British Foreign Office Minister defends the British Government’s stance on the allegations and Britain’s relationship with its dependent territories. Internationally renowned Guyanese born pop star Eddie Grant is recovering in a Georgetown hospital after falling critically ill while on vacation with his mother.
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    Caribbean Report 03-12-1996
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-11-03) Gordon, Warren (anchor); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Josie, Peter (interviewee); Mitchell, James (interviewee); Ferguson, James (interviewee); Hall, Patricia (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Perreira, Joseph 'Reds' (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 05-01-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-01-05) Daly, Dennis V. (interviewee); Khanai, Rohan (interviewee); Manning, Patrick (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); Robinson, A.N.R. (interviewee); Perreira, Joseph 'Reds' (correspondent); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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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.
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    Caribbean Report 07-01-1997
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-01-07) Gordon, Warren (anchor); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Smith, Colin (interviewee); Holder, Terry (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Hemraj, Satkumar (interviewee); Williams, Monroe (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The report states that bankers in St. Lucia demand a comprehensive three year plan from banana farmers already badly in debt. The next segment reports that a US Virgin Island based firm is being ordered to refund 26 million US dollars worth of advisory fees to Guyana’s Telephone Company. According to the Public Utilities Commission the money was paid to the ATN company, a parent company of GTandT, which is based in the US Virgin Island. Just seven days into the new year Jamaica’s death toll has risen to sixteen. National Security Minister Kadi Knight says that his crime fighting plans have to be given time to work. The following segment says that the price of gold worldwide continues to trade at its lowest level for more than three years and Guyana, the largest producer in the Caribbean, is counting its losses. In the next segment, the Head of the Caribbean Council of Churches believes that a papal visit to Cuba next year would be significant and the Reverend Doctor Monroe Williams discusses the issue. In addition, the World Council of Churches is accusing Nigeria’s military government of widespread repression in the oil rich Burgoni region. In the final segment, after a meeting with Muammar Gaddafi, the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Washington should initiate solution for the alleged sabotage of an airliner by Libyans.
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    Caribbean Report 08-01-2003
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003-01-08) Richards, Ken (anchor); Meade, Ben (correspondent); Hamilton, Conrad (correspondent); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Hayes, Rosie (correspondent); Hughes, Beverley (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Zacca, Christopher (interviewee); Humphrey, Chester (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 09-05-1997
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-05-09) Gordon, Warren (anchor); Richards, Ken (correspondent); Mitchell, James (interviewee); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Smith, Derrick (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Lansico, Romanas (interviewee); Joseph, Emma (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    United States President Bill Clinton is expected to arrive in Barbados later today to attend the Summit with Caricom leaders. On the agenda would be the Bridgetown Declaration and the Plan of Action. Topics to be dealt with are trade enhancement, the peculiar problems of smaller economies and the challenge they face and human resources development. For the Heads of Government of the Windward Islands it is the United States attitude to the banana industry which is the main priority. Next, Jamaica’s Minister of National Security was forced to cancel his trip to Barbados because of gun violence in West Kingston that left four people dead and at least nine wounded. Next, there is disagreement in St Lucia today over the supervision of an election code of conduct. The governing United Workers Party and the Opposition of an election code of conduct. The governing United Workers Party and the Opposition Labour Party signed an agreement promising to fight clean elections. Finally, the black cowboys of America are having their rodeo week in Texas. Many of them are the descendants of the Buffalo soldiers as they are called. The men who first fought in the United States army some one hundred and fifty years ago, former slaves.
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    Caribbean Report 11-04-2001
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-04-11) Joseph, Emma (anchor); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Lodge, Junior (interviewee); Espinosa, Christian (interviewee); Richards, Ken (correspondent); Sane, Pierre (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Harriott, Anthony (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); Novak, Shannon (correspondent); Gonzalez Nieves, Roberto (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 14-08-1997
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997-08-14) Richards, Ken (anchor); Davila, Ramon (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Caroit, Jean-Michel (correspondent); McDonald, Novar (interviewee); Anthony, Kenny (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Giuliani, Rudy (interviewee); Figueroa, Brian (interviewee); Thomas, Moya (correspondent); Augustus, Kurtis (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 16-02-1998
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1998-02-16) Gordon, Orin (anchor); Wells, Bowen (interviewee); Brandt, David (interviewee); Cook, Robin (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Rohee, Clement (interviewee); Orr, Carol (correspondent); Maharaj, Ramesh Lawrence (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Ramson, Charles (interviewee); Smith, Lew (correspondent); Mitchell, Keith (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 16-07-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-07-16) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Johnson, Andy (correspondent); Rowe, Yvette (correspondent); Reid, David (correspondent); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Hrinnak, Donna (interviewe); Brathwaite, Nicholas (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Allen, Ken (interviewee); Croskell, Hugh (correspondent); Brathwaite, Nicholas (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    K.D. Knight, Jamaica’s Minister of National Security states that according to intelligence reports - the current urban crime wave is the work of twenty gangs comprising of deportees from the US and Britain. He also outlined the administrative measures being taken to monitor the movement of these deportees – correspondent Gary Allen reports. Ken Allen, Editor of the Jamaican Gleaner newspaper - reports in an interview with Debbie Ransome on the paper’s decision to run articles about the glaring and heinous crime situation in its overseas publications. Jules Bernard Trinidad and Tobago’s Police Commissioner is fighting calls for his resignation in the public interest through the Port of Spain High Court – Andy Johnson reports. The United States administration says it’s disappointed that Caribbean leaders decided not include stipulations on Human Rights and Democracy in the CARICOM Cuba Commission Agreement. The decision to establish the Commission was taken at the Heads of Government Conference in the Bahamas. Hugh Croskell interviews Donna Hrinak – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Inter-American Affairs in the US State Department who attended the conference as an observer. However, Nicholas Brathwaite, Grenada’s Prime Minister states that it was the right approach in the context of a trading relationship. Belize Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel wants to have Belize’s agreement with Guatemala reviewed and have the legislation suspended stating that the country has given up too much - journalist David Reid reports. The Roman Catholic Church has once again indicated its opposition towards Haiti’s President Jean Bertrand Aristide’s leadership.
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    Caribbean Report 19-07-2001
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-07-19) Richards, Ken (anchor); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Johnston, David Cay (interviewee); Smith, Colin (correspondent); Jagdeo, Bharrat (interviewee); Trotman, Raphael (interviewee); Niles, Bertram (anchor); Clarke, Helen (interviewee); Smith, Alistair (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 20-04-1999
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1999-04-20) Greaves, Keith Stone (anchor, correspondent); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Orr, Carol (correspondent); Rabin, Robert (interviewee); Jones-Hendrickson, Simon (interviewee); Anthony, Kenny (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); McCoy, Jennifer (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 20-06-1996
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-06-20) Gordon, Warren (anchor); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Grant, Jennifer (correspondent); McMillan, Trevor (interviewee); Golding, Bruce (interviewee); McMillan, Trevor (interviewee); Lewis, Rupert (interviewee); Smith, Derrick (interviewee); Ninvalle, Pete (correspondent); Fontinard, Silvana (interviewee); Serieux, Peter (interviewee); Sullivan, Audrey (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 22-10-1996
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-10-22) Richards, Ken (anchor); Bloom, David (correspondent); Pankow, Robert (correspondent); Garcia, Gus (interviewee); Marville, Orlando (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Grant, Jennifer (correspondent); Satney, Gilroy (interviewee); Proudfoot, Anthony (interviewee); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); De Klerk, Frederik Willem (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 24-03-2011
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2011-03-24) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Golding, Bruce; Fraser, Tony (correspondent); Niles, Bertram (correspondent); Massiah, Joanne; Smith, Gilmore; Jarvis, Mike; Foy, Simon; Persad Bissessar, Kamla; Mitchell, Keith; Abu Bakr, Yasin; Bishop, Alimenta; McDonald, Trevor; Lamming, George; Marsden, Una; The British Broadcasting Corporation
    This penultimate program in the BBC Caribbean Report series deals mainly with economic and social issues facing Caribbean countries, as well as the implications of some economic, social and legal developments in Britain as they relate to Caribbean diasporic communities. The program concludes with an archives segment, which features snippets of previous broadcasts spanning a period from as far back as world war II to as recent as 2010, and highlighting significant personalities and events in Caribbean history.
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    Caribbean Report 26-09-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-09-26) Richards, Ken (anchor); Marshall, Hugh (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Daly, Dennis (interviewee); Cuffy, Victor (interviewee); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Black, Richard (correspondent); Boucard, Francoise (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In this report Antigua and Barbuda's former Trade Minister Hugh Marshall prepares to launch a new political party. Mr. Marshall comments on why he has decided to form a new party. In Jamaica, the cash starved human rights council needs funding to keep the Council fully operational. The Jamaican Council for Human Rights (JCHR) Chairman, Dennis Daly, comments on where the Council will seek funding and the impact this would have on Jamaica's human rights situation. Victor Cuffy, Executive Secretary of Caribbean Rights states his organization will also be seeking funding for its Jamaican affiliate. A report on the workings of Europe's banana regime is to be presented to the European Commission. There is also the issue of how to share licenses after the damage by hurrianes to the Caribbean banana crops. In Haiti, the former Police Chief Michel Francois has been convicted in his absence for the murder of a businessman and supporter of President Aristide. A team of scientists is in Haiti to exhume the bodies of people killed in demonstrations following the 1991 coup. President of the Truth and Justice Commission, Francoise Boucard explains the scale of Haiti's human rights tragedy. The former Appeal Court Judge Telford Georges is to head a three-member commission of inquiry into the postponement of a referendum on independence in Bermuda.
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    Caribbean Report 29-05-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-05-29) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Porter, Adrian (correspondent); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Bromley, Peter (correspondent); Manley, Michael (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Horne, Lynsey (interviewee); Stoute, Michael (interviewee); Wiltshire, Andrei (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 29-08-1996
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1996-08-29) Orr, Carol (anchor); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Hopkins, Mike (interviewee); Hutchinson, Earl Ofari (interviewee); Shifrin, Natalia (interviewee); Cuffy, Victor (interviewee); Lestrade, Swinburne (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 30-05-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-05-30) Timmins, Jerry (anchor); Reynolds, Richard (correspondent); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Johnson, Ben (interviewee); Roopnarine, Rupert (interviewee); Payne, John (interviewee); Knight, K. D. (interviewee); Bajeux, Jean-Claude (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); The British Broadcasting Corporation