Browsing by Author "Rosswess, Michael (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 17-02-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-02-17) Patrick Soraya (anchor); Haynes, Desmond (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Sanders, Peter (interviewee); Sabri, Sultan (interviewee); Lowe, Chris (correspondent); Patten, Chris (interviewee); Jackson, Colin (interviewee); Rosswess, Michael (interviewee); Edwards, Andy (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The National Forum in Haiti is to hand in its recommendations to President Prosper Avril for the establishment of a body to supervise free elections. Correspondent Michael Norton explains that they have to show that democracy is serious in order to obtain the aid that is cut-off by Washington since the aborted election in 1987. The Commission for Racial Equality in Britain is short of money and interviews are conducted with Peter Sanders, Chief Executive at the Commission, Sultan Sabri, civil servant, and Chris Patten, the Home Office Minister. In sports, West Indies opening batsman Desmond Haynes is to sign a contract to play for Middlesex and interviews are held with British athletes with connections in Jamaica, Colin Jackson and Michael Rosswess on the forthcoming European Indoor Championships in Hague. The Report also looks at a review of Caribbean News in the British Press during the past week.
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    Caribbean Report 20-02-1989
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1989-02-20) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Mates, Michael (interviewee); Lippens, Gio (correspondent); Edwards, Andrew (correspondent); Tomlinson, Alan (correspondent); Stainer, Robin (correspondent); Christie, Lintford (interviewee); Jackson, Colin (interviewee); Rosswess, Michael (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Michael Mates, Conservative MP and Chairman of the Government Select Committee on Defence explains the need for a study on attitudes of ethnic minorities toward the Armed Forces. With the impending decrease in recruits within the age group eighteen to twenty four, attempts are being made at proportional representation targeting black and brown men. In trade, the first day of negotiations of the International Coffee Organization does not achieve much in London, with key players, Brazil, Colombia and Central American States yet to arrive. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales arrived in St. Lucia on a three day official visit which coincided with the island’s tenth anniversary of independence. In sports, Gio Lippens, a correspondent from Holland speaks on how he tracks down the elusive Ben Johnson at his home in Canada. Interviews are held with athletes, Linford Christie, Colin Jackson and Michael Rosswess at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Holland. On the Caribbean connection, John Regis takes a second in the two hundred meters at the games.