Caribbean Report 05-02-1992
| SpecialCollections.repository | All sounds files in this collection are being kept at the Main Library, Mona Campus, Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. | en_US |
| dc.contributor | The University of the West Indies | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Jarvis, Mike (anchor) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ransome, Debbie (correspondent) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Joseph, Avon (interviewee) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martin, Lionel (correspondent) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Enright, Derrick (interviewee) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Boyd, Mark Lennox (interviewee) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brownie, Mickey (interviewee) | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Caribbean Area. | en_US |
| dc.creator | The British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-07T18:21:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-08-07T18:21:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-02-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Reported are the growing international concerns over United States policy towards Haiti; but while United States relaxes the embargo against Haiti, it is tightened against Cuba. Also reported is the call for the death penalty in Havanna for persons charged with the killing of 3 soldiers in an attempt to flee the island. There is a call in the British House of Commons for the British government to protect the Caribean's sugar industry from new world trade regimes. There is a second report on the legislation introduced by the United States to plug the holes in the 30 year trade blockade against Cuba and includes statements made by Dick Cheny against the Fidel Castro government. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 1. Headlines (00:00-00:31) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 2. Debbie Ransome reports on the debate over the United States decision for the repatriation of Haitian refugees (00:32-03:05) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 3. Report on the threats being made on the life of Father Avon Joseph, a methodist priest in Haiti, and interview with him on his views on the United States embargo on Haiti (03:06-09:00) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 4. Report on the attempt by the United States to tighten the embargo against Cuba and the introduction of legislation by the United States House and Senate designed to plug the holes in its 30 year trade blockade against Cuba, if the proposed legislation is passed (09:01-09:46) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 5. Report on the ending of a trial in Cuba in which 9 persons were charged with the killing of 3 soldiers in an attempt to flee the island and Lionel Martin reports from Havanna on the call for the imposing of the death sentence (09:47-11:37) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 6. Report on the call in the British House of Commons by labour party M.P. Derrick Enright for the British government to protect the Caribbean sugar industry from new world trade regimes while Mark Lennox Boyd, the Parliamentary undersecretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs assured that the Caribbean was being remembered during European negotiations (11:38-13:09) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 7. Report on the pressure under which the Caribbean preferential relations with the European community are under and interview with Mickey Brownie of the Caribbean Sugar Producers Association, who argues strongly against any attempt by Europe to abandon preferential arrangements (13:10-14:10) | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | 8. Report on the introduction of United States legislation designed to plug the holes in the 30 year trade blockade against Cuba and statements by Dick Cheney that Fidel Castro's days in power were numbered without the support of the former Soviet Union and the safety valve which the U.S. provided for assylum to Cuban dissidents allowed Castro to stay in power so long (14:11- 15:00) | en_US |
| dc.format | Stereo 192 bit rate MP3;44,100 Mega bits;16 bit | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 15 min. 01 sec. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | Sound, mp3 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | CAR0943 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/13165 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The BBC Caribbean Archives Collection 1988 - 2011 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessRights | Access to this collection is available on site at the Main Library, Mona Campus (main.library@uwimona.edu.jm), Jamaica and The Alma Jordan Library (wimail@sta.uwi.edu), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Refugees -- Haiti. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Embargo -- Commerce -- Haiti. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Cuba--Commerce. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Capital punishment -- Cuba. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Caribbean Area -- Commerce. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Haiti -- Foreign relations -- United States. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Caribbean Sugar Industry. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Haiti -- Trade embargo. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Haitian violence. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Cuba -- Trade embargo. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Caribbean Sugar Producers Association. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Haitian Refugees -- United States. | en_US |
| dc.title | Caribbean Report 05-02-1992 | en_US |
| dc.type | Recording, oral | en_US |