Caribbean Report 31-01-1994

Caribbean Report 31-01-1994

In this report, BBC has come under sharp criticism from the Jamaican government for the episode of 'Assignment' which focused on the Jamaican Yardies; Richard Nielson; incoming British High Commissioner to Port of Spain talks about possible strategies to combat drug related crimes;LIAT's Chief Executive discusses the state of the company amid rumours that the company facing a economic hardship;Prime Minister dame Eugenia Charles is set to visit Europe to represent the Windward Island banana farmers; the controversy surrounding the over 300 Jamaican passengers detained in London shows no signs of abating; another attempt will be made to introduce measures to stem the the fall of the Jamaican dollar; foreign investors being invited to invest in the country's economy and Jean-Bertrand Aristide is getting support from Canada to form a Haitian police force.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: The British Broadcasting Corporation, Richard, Nielson (interviewee), Seaforth, Cleveland (interviewee), Pryce, Michael (correspondent), Alleyne, Gary (correspondent), Martin, Lionel (correspondent)
Other Authors: The University of the West Indies
Format: Recording, oral biblioteca
Language:English
Published: The British Broadcasting Corporation 1994-01-31
Subjects:Airlines, > Caribbean area, Crime, > Trinidad and Tobago, Devaluation of currency, > Jamaica, banana trade, > Caribbean area, Cuba, > Foreign relations, Cuba, > Economic conditions, Haiti, > Politics and government,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2139/16146
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id oai:oai:uwispace.sta.uwi.edu:2139:2139-16146
record_format koha
institution UWI TT
collection DSpace
country Trinidad y Tobago
countrycode TT
component Bibliográfico
access En linea
databasecode dig-uwi-tt
tag biblioteca
region Caribe
libraryname UWI library system TT
language English
topic Airlines -- Caribbean area
Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago
Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica
banana trade -- Caribbean area
Cuba -- Foreign relations
Cuba -- Economic conditions
Haiti -- Politics and government
Airlines -- Caribbean area
Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago
Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica
banana trade -- Caribbean area
Cuba -- Foreign relations
Cuba -- Economic conditions
Haiti -- Politics and government
spellingShingle Airlines -- Caribbean area
Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago
Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica
banana trade -- Caribbean area
Cuba -- Foreign relations
Cuba -- Economic conditions
Haiti -- Politics and government
Airlines -- Caribbean area
Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago
Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica
banana trade -- Caribbean area
Cuba -- Foreign relations
Cuba -- Economic conditions
Haiti -- Politics and government
The British Broadcasting Corporation
Richard, Nielson (interviewee)
Seaforth, Cleveland (interviewee)
Pryce, Michael (correspondent)
Alleyne, Gary (correspondent)
Martin, Lionel (correspondent)
Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
description In this report, BBC has come under sharp criticism from the Jamaican government for the episode of 'Assignment' which focused on the Jamaican Yardies; Richard Nielson; incoming British High Commissioner to Port of Spain talks about possible strategies to combat drug related crimes;LIAT's Chief Executive discusses the state of the company amid rumours that the company facing a economic hardship;Prime Minister dame Eugenia Charles is set to visit Europe to represent the Windward Island banana farmers; the controversy surrounding the over 300 Jamaican passengers detained in London shows no signs of abating; another attempt will be made to introduce measures to stem the the fall of the Jamaican dollar; foreign investors being invited to invest in the country's economy and Jean-Bertrand Aristide is getting support from Canada to form a Haitian police force.
author2 The University of the West Indies
author_facet The University of the West Indies
The British Broadcasting Corporation
Richard, Nielson (interviewee)
Seaforth, Cleveland (interviewee)
Pryce, Michael (correspondent)
Alleyne, Gary (correspondent)
Martin, Lionel (correspondent)
format Recording, oral
topic_facet Airlines -- Caribbean area
Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago
Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica
banana trade -- Caribbean area
Cuba -- Foreign relations
Cuba -- Economic conditions
Haiti -- Politics and government
author The British Broadcasting Corporation
Richard, Nielson (interviewee)
Seaforth, Cleveland (interviewee)
Pryce, Michael (correspondent)
Alleyne, Gary (correspondent)
Martin, Lionel (correspondent)
author_sort The British Broadcasting Corporation
title Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
title_short Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
title_full Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
title_fullStr Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
title_full_unstemmed Caribbean Report 31-01-1994
title_sort caribbean report 31-01-1994
publisher The British Broadcasting Corporation
publishDate 1994-01-31
url http://hdl.handle.net/2139/16146
work_keys_str_mv AT thebritishbroadcastingcorporation caribbeanreport31011994
AT richardnielsoninterviewee caribbeanreport31011994
AT seaforthclevelandinterviewee caribbeanreport31011994
AT prycemichaelcorrespondent caribbeanreport31011994
AT alleynegarycorrespondent caribbeanreport31011994
AT martinlionelcorrespondent caribbeanreport31011994
_version_ 1756094208724172800
spelling oai:oai:uwispace.sta.uwi.edu:2139:2139-161462017-06-27T11:48:17Z Caribbean Report 31-01-1994 The British Broadcasting Corporation Richard, Nielson (interviewee) Seaforth, Cleveland (interviewee) Pryce, Michael (correspondent) Alleyne, Gary (correspondent) Martin, Lionel (correspondent) The University of the West Indies Orr, Carol (anchor) Airlines -- Caribbean area Crime -- Trinidad and Tobago Devaluation of currency -- Jamaica banana trade -- Caribbean area Cuba -- Foreign relations Cuba -- Economic conditions Haiti -- Politics and government In this report, BBC has come under sharp criticism from the Jamaican government for the episode of 'Assignment' which focused on the Jamaican Yardies; Richard Nielson; incoming British High Commissioner to Port of Spain talks about possible strategies to combat drug related crimes;LIAT's Chief Executive discusses the state of the company amid rumours that the company facing a economic hardship;Prime Minister dame Eugenia Charles is set to visit Europe to represent the Windward Island banana farmers; the controversy surrounding the over 300 Jamaican passengers detained in London shows no signs of abating; another attempt will be made to introduce measures to stem the the fall of the Jamaican dollar; foreign investors being invited to invest in the country's economy and Jean-Bertrand Aristide is getting support from Canada to form a Haitian police force. 1. Headlines (00:00-00:30) 2. BBC has come under for criticism by the Jamaican government following the BBC television's investigative series 'Assignment' which traced the connections of the Yardies to international drug trade. The Jamaican government said that the programme was a demeaning characterization of Jamaicans (00:31-2:02) 3. Richard Neilson, Britain's incoming High Commissioner to Port of Spain says that international cooperation and community work are ways of dealing with the drug related crime in the long run. He discusses the lessons learned from his from his South American experience and also the feasibility of the Scotland Yard officers returning to Trinidad to deal with corruption in Trinidad and Tobago's police force(00:31-4:56) 4. Predictions last year that the Caribbean regional airline LIAT faced collapse has been dismissed as speculation by the airline's Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Seaforth. According to the CEO LIAT would survive, despite further delays in securing a sale after CARICOM rejected the bid by Caribbean Aviation Enterprises. Seaforth discusses the issue(04:57-06:59) 5. Dominica's Prime minister dame Eugenia Charles is set to visit Europe in order to save the Windward island's banana industry from collapse (7:00-0:7:50) 6. The controversy surrounding over 300 passengers on a chartered flight from Jamaica, some of whom were detained, shows no sign of abating. There has been conflicting reports surrounding the incident and its purpose. Michael Pryce reports(07:51-09:54) 7. Another attempt will be made to find successful measures to stem 8. the slide of the Jamaican dollar. The Jamaican Finance Minister is set to announce these measures in parliament .Gary Alleyne reports (09:59-11:49) 9. Despite the pledge not to give up socialism, Cuba has begun to invite foreign capitalists to invest in the country's economy. Lionel Martin reports(11:50-14:15) 10. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is getting support for a proposal to create a police force to help restore democracy to Haiti. The force will consist of young Haitians in exile who will be trained by the Canadian government(14:16-14:43) Wrap up (14:44-14:55) 2013-07-18T21:08:40Z 2013-07-18T21:08:40Z 1994-01-31 Recording, oral CAR1461 http://hdl.handle.net/2139/16146 en The BBC Caribbean Archives Collection 1988 - 2011 Copyright British Broadcasting Corporation 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. Stereo 192 bit rate MP3;44,100 Mega bits;16 bit 14 min. 55 sec. Sound, mp3 audio/mpeg3 Caribbean Area. The British Broadcasting Corporation

Similar Items