Browsing by Author "Stout, Laverty (interviewee)"

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    Caribbean Report 04-04-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-04-04) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Griffith, Leslie (interviewer); Ramsahoye, Fenton (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In Haiti, Madame Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, has been arrested and jailed for complicity. Reports are given on this arrest by Michael Norton and Hugh Crosskill. Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana has brushed aside the Opposition demands for a complete overhaul of the country’s Electoral Commission Chairman, Sir Harold Bollers. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) government has reacted angrily to a decision made by the British government to abolish the death penalty in the Caribbean dependencies and to replace it with life imprisonment. Nigel Ben, former British WBA middleweight champion with Barbadian parents, has had a successful boxing match win and he looks towards achieving another title in the future.
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    Caribbean Report 05-04-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-04-05) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Pack, Chris (analyst); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Jessop, David (interviewee); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Timmins, Jerry (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    Laverty Stout, the Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands arrived in London for next week’s International Drugs Conference. He met with Britain’s Minister for Overseas Development, Lynda Chalker, to discuss the level of British aid to improve education, health services and roads in BVI. A meeting was also convened between Laverty Stout and Timothy Sainbury, the Minister Responsible for the Caribbean, focusing on off-shore banking and international finance. The next segment highlights the escape of a Haitian soldier who hijacked an American Airlines jet at Haiti’s International Airport after he was reprimanded by a senior officer for insubordination. Following the Financial News, the president of Cuba’s National Assembly announces his country’s plans to sell sugar on the world market if Cuba encounters trading difficulties with traditional Eastern European trading partners. Guyana’s sugar disputes between the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union and Guysuco continues despite the end of the two-day strike. The final segment provides insight into the possibilities of Haiti becoming a new and challenging economic power in the Caribbean region. Haitian businessmen purport that they can expand the export sector by exploiting the new markets in Eastern Europe.
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    Caribbean Report 09-04-1990
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990-04-09) Timmins, Jerry (anchor); Thatcher, Margaret; McNeill, Kenneth; Richardson, Selywn (interviewee); Whitehorne, Pat (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Ford, Henry (interviewee); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    In Mrs. Margaret Thatcher’s speech at one of the largest international conferences on drug abuse, she announces that Britain will provide one million pounds to its Caribbean dependent territories in the fight against drugs. Drawing on the Jamaican experience, Dr. Kenneth McNeill stresses the need for international cooperation in curbing the drug crisis, emphasizing the increased threats posed by cocaine and the escalation in cocaine use. With regards to British aid, Selwyn Richardson, Minister of Justice and National Security of Trinidad and Tobago states that providing financial help to British dependencies in the Caribbean is not enough since there are other countries in the region in dire need of financial assistance in combating drug trade. Laverty Stout, Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands comments on the specific problems of BVI and the contributions the smaller Caribbean islands can make to the international approach against drugs. Following the Financial News, rumours persist in Britain that a European airline is interested in buying shares in the Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) company. Based on the past experiences of LIAT, Henry Ford, leader of the Barbados Labour Party explains that a truly regional air transport system is needed in the Caribbean.
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    Caribbean Report 09-07-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-07-09) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor); Agnew, Jonathan (correspondent); Robinson, A.N.R. (interviewee); Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Pena Gomez, Francisco (interviewee); Benson, Howard (correspondent); Holder, Jean (speaker); Maynard, Charles (speaker); Murphy, Pat (correspondent); Richards, Vivian (interviewee); Gooch, Graham (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 12-01-1993
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1993-01-12) Jarvis, Mike (anchor); Baptiste, Sandra (correspondent); Ross, Barbara (interviewee); Shaw, Peter (interviewee); Wardle, Charles (interviewee); Meade, Reuben (interviewee); Allen, Gary (correspondent); Lennox-Boyd, Mark Alexander (interviewee); Grant, Bernie (interviewee); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    British Labour MP Barbara Ross in an interview with anchor Mike Jarvis discusses the British immigration restriction and apparent discrimination against Caribbean immigrants into Britain. MP Peter Shaw states that there is a double standard in favour of European immigrants as a result of Clause 9 of the Asylum and Immigrations Bill passed in parliament. British Foreign Officer Mark Lennox Boyd announced the change in Britain’s management plans for its Caribbean dependent territories at a meeting in Barbados. He states that the Board of Management being established by the British Government for the British dependencies is to be renamed, correspondent Sandra Baptiste interviews Mark Lennox Boyd, Reuben Meade – Montserrat’s Chief Minister and Lavity Stoutt - British Virgin Islands Chief Minister on this issue. Exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide Jean Bertrand Aristide is warning fleeing Haitian’s of the dangers of making the perilous sea voyage to Miami in an often fruitless search for US political asylum. He said that he was upset, and encouraged the refugees to mount local resistance to the de facto government. Correspondent Gary Allen looks at the welfare of Haitian refugees in Jamaica. In Cuba some 900 Haitians are to be repatriated over the next 3 days. They are part of the group of over 1000 Haitians who arrived there last November. Correspondent Mike Jarvis reports that death row inmates in Jamaica’s St. Catherine’s prison are refusing to come out of their cells over a government decision to enforce a rule barring visitors from 11:00 am. The actions of the prisoner’s means that they are denying themselves access to food and baths. Human Rights activists in Jamaica say that enforcement of the rule effectively restricts lawyers from meeting with the inmates particularly now that they are being reclassified.
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    Caribbean Report 12-03-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-03-12) Crosskill, Hugh (correspondent); Williams, Eddie (correspondent); Boyce, James (interviewee); Rose, Maureen (interviewee); Anthony, Patrick (interviewee); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    The public remains in the dark regarding the current political crisis in Antigua. There are rumours and speculations about government ministers being sacked and others appointed but there has not been any public statements made by both sides of the political divide. A large oil slick is affecting the coastal areas of St. Maarten, St. Bath, Nevis and is threatening Antigua. A British woman is in the centre of controversy between the church and the scientific community as she decides to have an artificial insemination procedure. The British government is being seen as dragging its feet on the question of granting the British Virgin Island associate membership of CARICOM. Since the slump in the world market, the Jamaican bauxite industry has been recovering steadily.
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    Caribbean Report 13-03-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991-03-13) Crosskill, Hugh (anchor); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Spencer, Baldwin (interviewee); Norton, Michael (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
    An update is provided in this report on the political situation in Antigua and Barbuda where seven rebel MPs have written the Prime Minister to resign due to his poor leadership. Antigua’s Leader of the Opposition United National Democratic Party (UNDP), believes that the Prime Minister has succeeded in the challenge against his son and six other rebel MPs who have asked him to resign. There is an unprecedented move in Haiti where six soldiers have been arrested and an army platoon has been confined to barracks. The West Indian Commission continued its consultation with the people in the Caribbean and held a recent session in Jamaica. The Jamaican government has broken its silence on the death penalty and maintains that it would not be abolished in the country. The BVI seeks British aid in order to lengthen the BVI’s airport runway which would facilitate flights from Miami and New York and also accommodate direct flights into the BVI.
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    Caribbean Report 19-04-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014-07-21) Patrick, Soriah (anchor); Goffe, Leslie (correspondent); Anyaoku, Emeka (interviewee); Caroit, Jean Michel (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); Ransome, Pat (correspondent); Joseph, Cecil (interviewee); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Eubank, Chris (interviewee); Hall, Marshall (interviewee); Kirton, Allan (interviewee); Ramphal, Shridath (interviewee); Boyd, Mark Lennox (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 23-04-1991
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014-07-22) Whitehorne, Pat (anchor ; interviewer); Ramphal, Shridath (interviewee); Bollers, Harold (interviewee); Boyd, Mark Lennard (interviewee); Jarvis, Mike (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Herdman, Mark (interviewee); Abbott, Dianne (interviewee); The British Broadcasting Corporation
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    Caribbean Report 29-07-1992
    (The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992-07-29) Ransome, Debbie (anchor); Khan, Sharief (correspondent); Stout, Laverty (interviewee); Wells, Bowen (interviewee); Timmins, Jerry (correspondent); Martin, Lionel (correspondent); The British Broadcasting Corporation