Browsing by Author "McNeill, Kenneth (interviewee)"

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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 11-04-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-04-11) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); McNeill, Kenneth (interviewee); Matos, Rafael (correspondent); Watson, Michael (interviewee); McCallum, Mike (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In the aftermath of the International Drug Conference in London, Kenneth McNeill, Jamaican Minister, advises Jamaica must seek economic alternatives in the eradication of the marijuana crop in Jamaica. He furthers states that a global commitment is essential in solving the international problem of drug abuse and trafficking. Secondly, a fisherman of a small coastal town in Puerto Rico discovers a metal drum containing over a million dollars. The Puerto Rican police and the FBI are investigating the find as monies hidden by Caribbean drug barons. The next segment covers the upcoming WBA Middle Weight fight between Jamaica’s Mike McCallum and Britain’s Michael Watson at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The report ends with Stories of Caribbean interest appearing in the British press focusing on the controversy between the English and Caribbean journalists during the final day of the Fourth Test Match in Barbados. The press stories include the decisions of Umpire Lloyd Barker in the dismissals of Curtly Ambrose; the responses of the Barbadian cricket fans; Geoff Boycott’s claim that Vivian Richards intimidated the umpire; and Lloyd Baker’s insistence that his decisions were independent of Vivian Richard’s reactions.