Browsing by Author "Persaud, Vishnu (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 01-07-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-07-01) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Basdeo, Sahadeo (interviewee); Sandiford, Erskine (interviewee); Bell, John (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Persaud, Vishnu (interviewee); McKenzie, Duke (interviewee); Duff, Mickey (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 09-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-09) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); Marcall, George (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Esquivel, Manuel (interviewee); Reynolds, Randolph (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Lynch, Douglas (interviewee); Persaud, Vishnu (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program focuses on the signing of an agreement between the Government of Guyana and Reynolds Metal International, an American based company. BBC correspondent, Sharief Khan reports on the signing of this joint venture bauxite mining agreement and its implications for Guyana. Secondly, talks are expected to begin with Britain, Belize and Guatemala over long time territorial disputes. Further insights into these talks, the succession of land and access to the Caribbean are discussed by Manuel Esquivel, former Prime Minister of Belize. Following the Financial Market news, predictions are made of fewer British tourists to visit the Caribbean in 1990 due to the recession. The travel industry in Britain reported that bookings to the Caribbean are down by approximately 50 percent as compared to 1989. George Marcall, Sales and Marketing Director of Airtours comments on the economic situation and hikes in hotel prices which have led travellers to the reconsideration their options. Thirdly, the Barbadian Opposition Party suggests that Barbados is heading for a recession in the midst of debates over the state of the economy. The concerns follow an increase in the interest rates of loans and the imposition of restrictions on credit. Correspondent Sandra Baptiste reports and includes interviews with Douglas Lynch of the Barbados Shipping and Trading Company and Dr. Vishnu Persad, Director of Economic Affairs, Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat who state that the economy is not in crisis. The final segment looks at tomorrow’s report of an interview with Randolph Reynolds and a report on the expansion of telecommunication services by Cable and Wireless.
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    Caribbean Report 14-09-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-09-14) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Ransome, Debbie (correspondent); Ford, Henry (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Coone, Tim (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Persaud, Vishnu (interviewee); Anyaoku, Emeka (interviewee); Calverley, John (analyst); Humphreys, David (analyst); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 23-05-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-05-23) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Croes, Rudy (interviewee); Jones, Mark (analyst); Woodroffe, Colin (interviewee); Persaud, Vishnu (interviewee); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Carmichael, Stokely; Strickland, William (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    As Dominica prepares for general elections next Monday, the leaders and representatives of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States are in Dominica for their bi-annual meeting. Michael Douglas, the Opposition Leader, criticises Prime Minister, Eugenia Charles, for hosting the meeting so close to the elections. However, Eugenia Charles says that the close proximity of the two events poses no problems and provides further comments on the price of bananas and the Antiguan arms scandal. Secondly, seventy-seven political parties from seventy countries were represented at the Socialist International Conference in Cairo, Egypt whilst the only Caribbean delegate was the MEP party of Aruba. Following the Financial News, international scientists at the Royal Geographical Society in London announce that global warming could lead to a rise in sea levels and to devastation to coastal areas in the Caribbean. One of the scientists noted that since North America and Europe are the main contributors of global warming they should bear the economic cost of combating the greenhouse effect and not the Caribbean islands. The report concludes with the attendance of black scholars from the United States and other countries at a symposium in Havana, Cuba on the life and works of Malcolm X.