Browsing by Author "Redhead, Brian (correspondent)"

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    Caribbean Report 04-03-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-03-04) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); Charles, Eugenia (interviewee); Ingram, Simon (correspondent); Baxter, Peter (correspondent); Procter, Mike (interviewee); Murray, Deryck (interviewee); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Jamaica’s sugar workers strike and call on Prime Minister Michael Manley and Agriculture Minister Seymour Mullings to intervene in stalled negotiations with employers. Barbados Prime Minister Erskine Sandiford has been asked to intervene in a wage stand-off between sugar workers and industry managers. Dominica’s Prime Minister Dame Eugenia Charles continues her tour of Europe to secure support for Caribbean bananas in European markets. The EC Commissioners are still to decide on the complex banana protocol which could put Caribbean banana producers at a disadvantage with its big Latin American competitors. Both the West Indies and New Zealand cricket teams meet in their first World Cup clash. In a first official visit to Havana the West Indian Commission chairman, Sir Shridath Ramphal and President Fidel Castro agree that there can be no Caribbean integration without Cuba. The Cuban News Agency lashes out against its former allies in Eastern Europe who sided with the US to achieve a resolution condemning Cuba before the UN Human Rights Commission, branding them as the new aligned imperialism.
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    Caribbean Report 04-08-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-08-04) Rowe, Yvette (anchor); Wardle, Charles (interviewee); Trant, William (interviewee); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); Reid, David (correspondent); Hanson, Tom (interviewee)
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    Caribbean Report 07-03-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-03-07) Fraser, Sonia (anchor); Avril, Prosper (interviewee); Timmins, Jerry (correspondent); Le Gendre, Robert (interviewee); Jackson, Julia (analyst); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Hall, Wes, 1937- (interviewee); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    An exclusive interview with embattled Haitian President, General Prosper Avril in which he refuses to step down from power. He confirms that such a move will be unconstitutional and will threaten the stability of the country; requests a team of international observers to monitor the Haitian elections next year; comments on the control of mass demonstrations and the electoral timetable. An exiled Haitian opposition leader in Miami responds to the statements of President Avril. Following the Financial News, the Cuban government reacts harshly to the approval of the United Nations’ resolution on the abuse of human rights in Cuba. The report concludes with comments from former cricketer and Minister of Tourism and Sports,Wesley Hall on reasons why the West Indies lost the first test match against England at Sabina Park, Jamaica.
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    Caribbean Report 09-06-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-06-09) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Cardouat, Jean-Michel (correspondent); Scanlon, Charles (correspondent); Parodi, Ramón Sánchez (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Walker, Carole (correspondent); Cooke, Howard, Sir (interviewee); Chalker, Lynda, Baroness (interviewee); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 18-01-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-01-18) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Gopaul, Nanda Kishore (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Pastor, Robert (interviewee); Langridge, Dereck (interviewee); Redhead, Brian (correspondent); Gatting, Mike (interviewee); Lloyd, Clive (interviewee); Partridge, Frank (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The program reports on the newly formed Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) organization which is viewed as a forerunner to a new political party with the aim to foster social and political change in Guyana. Secondly, Caribbean politicians are concerned over the recent shift in the US fund in assisting the anti-drug programme from the Caribbean to Poland. Following the Financial News, the British owned Cable and Wireless Co. responds to criticisms from Vere Bird Jr., Communications Minister in Antigua and Barbuda who purports that the company has a strangle-hold on the telecommunications of the twin island. The final segment addresses the upcoming controversial tour of the English cricket team to South Africa and over Mike Gatting’s (England captain) remarks, “I know little about apartheid” at a news conference a year ago.