Browsing by Author "Pierce, Dennis (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 17-03-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-03-17) Orr, Carol (anchor); Burnhill, Bobbie (correspondent); Rush, George (correspondent); Sobion, Keith (interviewee); Hayes, Rosie (correspondent); Sanchez, Elizardo (interviewee); Fairley, Ian (correspondent); Pierce, Dennis (interviewee); Nairn, Allan (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Police in the British Virgin Islands have made one of the region's biggest cocaine seizures. The debate on the controversial issue of independence of Bermuda began in the country's Parliament. The Trinidad and Tobago government is seeking to end constitutional motions to Britain's Privy Council. The country's Attorney General Keith Sobion argued that this is in response to concern over the abuse of constitutional motions by prisoners on death row. Cuba's President Fidel Castro returned home following a visit to France during which he gave a tentative agreement to a human rights probe. Rosie Hayes reports on reactions in Cuba to a possible human rights probe. In Haiti there is a wave of petty crime with signs that the population is applying its own form of justice. Meanwhile, journalist Michael Norton reports on what is being done officially to tackle the growing rise in crime in Haiti.
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    Caribbean Report 23-03-1995
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-03-23) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Rush, George (correspondent); Fairley, Ian (correspondent); Pierce, Dennis (interviewee); Pierce, Richard (interviewee); Francis, Amadeo (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The death toll rises to four in the Dominican Republic protest and police believe that drug dealers may be behind the increased violence. In Bermuda, the hand of faith may have forced the postponement of the examination of the Green Paper on independence. The Caribbean security conference entered its second day in the Dominican Republic. Haiti's new police force is currently undergoing training and faces major challenges. Richard Pierce, Jamaica's Ambassador to Geneva speaks about Caribbean perspectives on the new World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General, Renato Ruggiero. Amadeo Francis, President of the Pan American Athletics Commission, wants to see stronger Caribbean participation at the Pan Am Junior Games in Santiago, Chile in September. Forty-one year old Welshman, Tony James has won one million pounds on the football pools and puts his good fortune down to a lucky charm he picked up in Jamaica.