Browsing by Author "McLeod, Errol (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 05-07-2002
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2002-07-05) Weir, Karen (anchor); Niles, Bertrand (correspondent); Joseph, Emma (correspondent); Bynoe, Phillip (speaker); McLeod, Errol (interviewee); Hughes, Clift (interviewee); Martin, Von (interviewee); Excel, Matthew (correspondent); Richards, Ken (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 18-02-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-02-18) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Adams, David (interviewee); McLeod, Errol (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Mulder, Sebastian (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Barnes, John (interviewee); Winter, Henry (interviewee); Taylor, Graham (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    After an overcrowded ferry (the Neptune) with over 1000 people sank in a rainstorm off the western peninsular of Haiti - correspondent David Adams reports. A man hijacked a missionary shuttle plane in Haiti demanding to be flown to Florida. The Federal aviation administration spokesperson said the flight had refueled in Turks and Caicos and was on its way to Miami. (TandT government has gotten a two weeks grace period during the Carnival weekend from the protest of the country’s increasingly restless trade union movement and thousands of public servants. However, Errol Mc Cloud President of the National Trade Union centre in an interview with correspondent Debbie Ransome said that the union did not rule out national industrial action in the very near future. A consultative committee has been set up in Suriname into look at ways to halting the country’s inflation situation and rapid economic malaise and averting industrial unrest as workers are becoming increasingly agitated -correspondent Sandra Baptiste in an interview with Fr. Sebastian Mulder reports. Jamaica’s two main political parties and its representatives Prime Minister PJ Patterson and Opposition Leader Edward Philip George Seaga are moving towards a first in the region by staging a political debate whenever general elections are called as part of a move towards change in the political culture in Jamaica – correspondent Gary Allen reports. Popular footballer John Barnes came under much criticism and booing of an English crowd of over 50,000 at a Liverpool and England football match at Wembley – correspondent Debbi Ransome reports from an interview with sports writer Henry Winter of British newspaper - the Independent.
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    Caribbean Report 26-02-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-02-26) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Fraser, Tony (correspondent); McLeod, Errol (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); De Peana, George (interviewee); Gummer, John (interviewee); Oppenheim, Phillip (interviewee); Little, Cheryl (interviewee); Boutros-Ghali, Boutros (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    There appears to be a temporary cessation of hostilities between the trade unions and the Trinidad and Tobago government, as the unions agreed to accept a proposal for voluntary redundancy of its members in the public utilities sector – correspondent Tony Fraser interviews Errol McLeod, President General of the OWTU. George De Peana, Caribbean Advisor International Labour Organization is calling on the labour movement to reorder their attitudes towards money and collective bargaining. In an interview with correspondent Sandra Baptiste, De Peana outlined some suggestions to achieve these desired outcomes. Despite a decision to maintain free access to the European market - the banana issue continues to be a decisive matter among British MPs. John Gummer, Agriculture Minister reported in parliament on an EC Council Meeting where the council maintained market preferences for Caribbean bananas. Correspondent Yvette Rowe reports on the statements of British MP - Phillip Arthur Charles Lawrence Oppenheim. The UN has called for Haitians arrested following a mass for victims of the ferry accident to be released. The UNs Secretary-General of the (UN) - Boutros Boutros-Ghali said that the detainees should be released in the interest of democracy – correspondent Yvette Rowe reports. HIV Positive Haitians refugees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba say that they will continue to fight their ban on their entry into the US, and continue their hunger strike in protest. In an interview with correspondent Yvette Rowe - Miami Attorney for Haitian refugees - Cheryl Little says that the recent US Senate vote to maintain the ban is disheartening. The shadow boxing between boxer - Riddick Lamont Bowe and Lennox Lewis continue with no clear sign about when the real thing (fight) will happen. In Puerto Rico millions of dollars in property was seized in a major drug raid executed by US police and agents. The assets - homes, businesses and islands are believed to be owned by a Columbian led group of drug smugglers and money launderers, and the value of the seizure is estimated at 20 million dollars.