Browsing by Author "Mathur, Ira (correspondent)"

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    Caribbean Report 01-08-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-08-01) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Adie, Kate (correspondent); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Madeira, Laura Lee (interviewee); Basdeo, Sahadeo (interviewee); Pantin, Dennis (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The Muslim gunmen holding forty hostages at Parliament building and the television station in Port of Spain have surrendered and the hostages are being released. Ira Mathur (correspondent) speaks on the release of the women parliamentarians, Gloria Henry and Jennifer Johnson at Parliament building, the mood of the population in Port of Spain and reported casualties at the city's hospital. Kate Adie (correspondent) describes in detail the surrender of the fifty insurgents who were later driven away in army vehicles. Laura Lee Madeira, daughter of Jones P. Madeira, hostage and journalist is thankful for the release of her father and Trinidadians voice strong disapproval of the coup. Much thought provoking issues come up with the coup d'etat including the fragility of Caribbean democracies and the impact of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on small economies. Sahadeo Basdeo,Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Affairs Minister and Dennis Pantin, vice-president of the Association of Caribbean Economist speak on the issues.
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    Caribbean Report 03-08-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-08-03) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Suratgar, David (analyst); Clarke, Lorna (correspondent); James, Canute (correspondent); Mootoo, Winston (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 10-04-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-04-10) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); King, Maurice (interviewee); McNeill, Kenneth (interviewee); Elwin, A. (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Buxton, Neil (analyst); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Naipaul, V.S. (interviewee); Singh, Rickey (interviewee); Henry, Hollis (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Barbados and Jamaica are moving ahead with the introduction of new legislations for harsher penalties for drug traffickers. New legislations are about to be debated in the Barbados Parliament and the Jamaican government will be implementing laws focusing on treaty arrangements including the seizure of assets and extradition laws. Secondly, the Guyanese bauxite industry is experiencing another strike as workers in the town of Linden demand the payment of retroactive allowances. Following the Financial News, V.S. Naipaul visits Trinidad and Tobago to receive the Trinity Cross, the nation’s highest honour. In response to the claim that East Indians feel alienated in the Trinidadian society, Naipaul asserts that the East Indian population was politically alienated due to the historical pettiness of their politics, such as rivalry, personalities and family feuds. The final segment provides coverage of the tensions between the English and Caribbean journalists during the final day of the Fourth Test Match in Barbados. BBC commentator, Christopher Martin Jenkins was banned from the Voice of Barbados after making controversial comments about Umpire Lloyd Barker, and another British commentator allegedly swore at a Barbadian journalist.
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    Caribbean Report 12-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-12) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); King, Bob (correspondent); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Jones, James (interviewee); Wilson, Tracy (interviewee); DeJean, Rob (interviewee); Russell, Lynsey (correspondent); Fortescue, Edna (interviewee); Shatner, John (interviewee); Humphreys, Hilroy (interviewee); Dark, Ian (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program focuses on the strengthening of ties between Haiti and Taiwan through the recent visit of President Avril to Taipei, resulting in the Taiwanese offering advisory assistance to the development of the Haitian economy and trade. Secondly, trade unions in Trinidad condemn its Government’s retrenchments in the transportation sector and are encouraged to be less reliant on government subsidies. Following the Financial Market news, Antigua’s government faces a lawsuit by the American owners of the surviving llamas awaiting transportation to the US. The round-up segment addresses the return of prisoners to St. Croix after Hurricane Hugo; the call by a Birmingham City Counsellor, Phillip Murphy, to provide Jamaican dialect translation over a public address systems in city halls; and TV Marti in Cuba. The program concludes with Nigel Benn, Barbadian boxer vying for the World Middle Weight title against Sanderline Williams.
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    Caribbean Report 14-02-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-02-14) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Thompson, Pat (interviewee); Stalinski, Otto (interviewee); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Humphrey, John (interviewee); Martin-Jenkins, Christopher (correspondent); Holding, Michael (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program features the agreement on the second phase of the Caribbean Basin Initiative designed to enhance trade between the Caribbean and the United States. In its final stage, the agreement faces major challenges including the Caribbean’s demand for improved sugar quotas and issues in the textile industry. Secondly, according to Otto Stalinski, a banana marketing consultant in the Dominican Republic, unless the Caricom banana producing states cut costs and improve the production quality, they will be unable to compete in the united European market after 1992. Following the Financial News, the report focuses on the massive demonstration of the Summit of National Organisations in Port of Spain against the government’s enforcement of the IMF and World Bank conditionality. It also covers stories of Caribbean interest appearing in the British press. The report concludes with the second one-day international cricket match between the West Indies and England scheduled to be played in Port of Spain following the abandonment of the first one-day match due to rain.
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    Caribbean Report 16-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-16) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); James, Canute (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Morgan, James (correspondent); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Johnson, Andy; The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program features the finalization of negotiations for a new Jamaican IMF aid agreement since the island failed the last IMF economic performance test. The new agreement could translate into economic pressures for Jamaica, including higher interest rates, import reductions and the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar. Secondly, the fears of Caribbean politicians that recent changes in Eastern Europe will push the region to the back of the international aid queue was confirmed by the withdrawal of twenty five million dollars in US assistance to Jamaica. Following the Financial News, an economic correspondent examines the implications of the completion of the Uruguay Round of negotiations in December 1990 on Caribbean nations. The final segment reports on the two-day Caribbean Media and Telecommunications conference in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and provides insights into a conference presentation by Andy Johnson entitled “The New World Information Order in the Strategies of the Third World States.”
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    Caribbean Report 16-02-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-02-16) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Thompson, Pat (interviewee); Stalinski, Otto (interviewee); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Humphrey, John (interviewee); Martin-Jenkins, Christopher (correspondent); Holding, Michael (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program features the agreement on the second phase of the Caribbean Basin Initiative designed to enhance trade between the Caribbean and the United States. In its final stage, the agreement faces major challenges including the Caribbean’s demand for improved sugar quotas and issues in the textile industry. Secondly, according to Otto Stalinski, a banana marketing consultant in the Dominican Republic, unless the Caricom banana producing states cut costs and improve the production quality, they will be unable to compete in the united European market after 1992. Following the Financial News, the report focuses on the massive demonstration of the Summit of National Organisations in Port of Spain against the government’s enforcement of IMF and World Bank conditionality. It also covers stories of Caribbean interest appearing in the British press. The report concludes with the second one-day international cricket match between the West Indies and England scheduled to be played in Port of Spain following the abandonment of the first one-day match due to rain.
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    Caribbean Report 16-05-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-05-16) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Smith, Clifford (correspondent); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Narine, Rudy (interviewee); Douglas, Easton (interviewee); Stainer, Robin (interviewee); Langton, John (interviewee); Kinsley, Lord (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 18-05-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-05-18) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Blom-Cooper, Lewis (interviewee); Fraser, Richard (analyst); Ray, Norman (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Carrington, Edwin (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Forty-eight hours after the polls closed in the Dominican Republic, the population is still awaiting the results of the general elections. The ballots are showing an extremely close poll with Joaquin Balaguer slightly ahead after 80% of the votes are counted. Secondly, the judicial enquiry into the Antiguan arms scandal commences on June 1st and Lewis Blom-Cooper, British Queen’s Counsel, will lead the probe. Following the Financial News, Jamaica completed the first stage of a campaign designed to promote the sales of fruits, vegetables, tin products, coffee, rum and cigars in Britain. The objective of the campaign is to establish the UK market as a platform to the European Single Market community in 1992. The stories of Caribbean interest in the British press cover the Afro-Caribbean businesses in London and the positive and negative impact of black people broadcasted on British television. The report ends with the workshop of the members of the public and private sectors of Trinidad and Tobago discussing the allocation of an eighty million dollar grant from the European Community.
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    Caribbean Report 19-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-19) Timmins, Jerry (anchor); Gannes, Emile (interviewee); Toalster, John (analyst); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); O'Toole, Pamela (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program focuses on the agreement by the British government to amend seventeen items in Anguilla’s constitution, including the right of men and women to pass voting rights to their foreign spouses. The leader of the opposition’s Anguilla United Party comments that the amendments do not address the vote of no confidence in Anguilla. Following the Financial Market news, the next segment highlights the outbreak of dengue fever in Trinidad with reports of 103 cases, the confirmation of the death of a teenager, and the prevention campaign being adversely affected by the shortage of insecticides. The round-up segment covers the new policy by Margaret Thatcher to ensure the payment of child support by runaway fathers; England’s upcoming cricket tour of the West Indies and South Africa; and an award for good conduct and service to the first black policeman, Anguillan-born, Noel Roberts. The final segment examines Havana’s protest to the UN’s Security Council about the American plan to set up a television station, TV Marti, in Cuba. According to a letter by Cuba’s Foreign Minister, it is an attempt by the US to mutilate the national sovereignty of Cuba and destabilize the country.
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    Caribbean Report 22-08-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-08-22) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Panday, Basdeo (interviewee); Pantin, Dennis (interviewee); Maitland, Jonathan (correspondent); Williams, David (interviewee); Holding, Michael (interviewee); Barnett, Kim (interviewee); Holder, Claire (interviewee); Geysler, Stephan (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 24-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-24) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); Bajeux, Jean-Claude (interviewee); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Porter, Adrian (correspondent); Williams, Hue (analyst); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Marville, Orlando (interviewee); Lloyd, Clive (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Christie, Linford (interviewee); Jarman, Brian (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program focuses on the call by a human rights activists in Haiti to isolate the Haitian President, General Prosper Avril, following the exile of opposition leaders from the country. Secondly, Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica announces that travel restrictions in the Eastern Caribbean will soon be lifted for OECS citizens. In the next segment, the United States denies claims by a Havana newspaper that it was attempting to intimidate Cuba by carrying out naval manoeuvres in waters near the island. The United States asserts that the naval presence is part of a long-planned exercise carried out jointly with other NATO forces. Following the Financial Market news, the report centres on the opening of the Uruguay Round, a five-day regional seminar on the multi-lateral trade negotiations in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. In the sporting segment, Clive Lloyd, manager of the West Indies cricket team warns his players not to be complacent during the upcoming English tour. The segment also provides excerpts from the opening ceremony of the 14th Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, highlighting the upcoming 100 meters race between Linford Christie and Jamaican sprinter, Ray Stewart.
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    Caribbean Report 26-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-26) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); Porter, Adrian (correspondent); Tutwiler, Margaret (interviewee); Jarman, Brian (correspondent); Louie, Franson (interviewee); Horn, Lynsey (analyst); Mathur, Ira (correspondent); Odle, Stanley (interviewee); Marville, Orlando (interviewee); Shervington, Keith (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program addresses the demands by the United States on Haiti to adopt more liberal measures since the expulsion of its opposition leaders. The demands include the immediate return of the exiled opposition leaders, the lifting of restrictions on the freedom of the press and free elections. In defence of Haiti’s position, the Haitian Director of Information states that the freedom of human rights is a reality in Haiti. The second segment focuses on the conclusion of the Uruguay Round seminar by senior Caricom trade officials on multi-lateral trade negotiations in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The round-up segment covers the immigration policies of Jamaican-born John Taylor, the first black conservative member of the British parliament; the state of siege in Haiti; toxic waste disposal in Jamaica and other Caribbean nations; and a ten-piece suit of armour for the English cricketers against the West Indies. The program concludes with the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand and the chances for the Caribbean participants.