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Caribbean Report 20-01-1995
No full textIn this report, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) put together a formal study on whether it should seek entry into NAFTA. Grenada's Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite voices his concerns of individual CARICOM states seeking separate NAFTA entry. Debbie Ransome reports on the final document in which the OECS sought to assess what is in NAFTA for them and how the sub-region can protect its interests. British Airways is to review its new payment structure which forces travelers to the Caribbean region to pay for their tickets days after making their reservations. In Britain, the number of black people out of work is proportionally twice as much as whites. Michael Pryce reports on these findings and interviews Stan Mendham and Herman Ouseley. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) stated that while companies had equal opportunities undertakings, their pledges were not carried through. Calls are being made to introduce quotas but Stan Mendham, who runs a Forum on Small Businesses, declared that small companies could not afford such quotas. Herman Ouseley, Chairman of CRE, also said that demands for quotas are impractical. Bermuda has appointed a new British Commissioner of Police, Mr. Colin Coxall. Meanwhile, a government-supported position calling for the appointment of a local Commissioner has collected 3000 signatures in less than a week. In the Dominican Republic, concerns are growing on the dangers linked to the transportation of radioactive wastes through the Caribbean Sea. Correspondent Jean Michel Caroit reports on attempts made by the Dominican Republic to prevent these ships from crossing regional waters. The West Indies cricket team prepares for its first One Day International (ODI) against New Zealand in Auckland. However, the New Zealand team is battling under a cloud with the suspension of three of its players for allegedly smoking cannabis. Reds Pereira reports on how this affects the New Zealand team psychologically and how the West Indies team is looking in comparison.1. Headlines with Carol Orr (00:00-00:28)2. Report on the OECS formal study on whether it should seek entry into NAFTA (00:29-00:59)3. Interview with Wendell Mottley on Trinidad's reasons to pursue its own agenda (01:00-01:27))4. Interview with Nicholas Brathwaite on his concerns of CARICOM states seeking separate NAFTA entry (01:28-02:22)5. Report on the OECS document whereby its rationale on hemispheric trade agreement is explained (02:23-04:52)6. Report on British Airways review of its new payment structure (04:53-05:14)7. Report on the number of black people out of work in Britain and calls for government legislation on quotas (05:15-05:44)8. Interview with Stan Mendham on the issue of quotas (05:45-06:47)9. Interview with Herman Ouseley who argued that demands for quotas are impractical (06:48-8:46)10. Report on the appointment of a new British Commissioner of Police in Bermuda (08:47-09:11)11. Report on the Dominican Republic's concerns on the dangers linked to the transportation of radioactive wastes through regional waters (09:12-11:03)12. Report on the West Indies cricket team preparations for its first ODI against New Zealand in Auckland (11:04-14:55)13. Carol Orr ends the report (14:56-15:07
Caribbean Report 12-07-2001
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:26)2. Business leaders seek a political truce in Jamaica. The Human Rights Organisation Amnesty International today threw its support behind the efforts of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica to help resolve the West Kingston crisis. President of the Human Rights Association of Jamaica Dennis Daly is interviewed and Orin Gordon reports (00:27-05:12)3. Experts call for the closure of the Trinidad and Tobago Sugar Industry. Finance Minister Gerald Yetming is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (05:13-07:23)4. Abner Louima a Haitian immigrant in New York gets a nine million dollar settlement in a police brutality law suit. Attorney Sanford Rubenstein is interviewed (07:24-09:49)5. OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria and Caricom's Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdeen are in Haiti trying to facilitate further talks in electoral reform between the governing Lavalas Party and the Opposition Convergence. Prime Minister Kenny Anthony and former United States Ambassador to Haiti Ernest Preeg are interviewed. Ken Richards reports (09:50-13:13)6. In Britain, a Report into a race relations in Bradford has criticised growing segregation in the North Western City which saw extensive rioting last weekend. Lord Herman Ouseley who wrote the report is interviewed and Tanya Green-Reid reports (13:14-15:27
Caribbean Report 22-11-1996
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:33)2. Plans to legislate for greater autonomy for Tobago could be blocked by the twin Island's Opposition. Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj is interviewed and Tony Fraser reports (00:34-02:50)3. Fear of an end to public service broadcasting in Jamaica is dismissed by the government as plans for a merger are forged ahead. Communications Lecturer Dr Hurton Don, The University of the West Indies and Government Minister Arnold Bertram are interviewed (02:51-08:27)4. More than two hundred Haitians who were found dead at sea this month may have landed safely in Cuba. Rosie Hayes reports (08:28-10:17)5. Recently top officials from the oil giant Texaco were caught making racially sensitive comments referring to black people as jelly beans. This led to a multimillion law suit and protest outside the company's headquarters. Vice President for Corporate Affairs at General Motors in the United States Bill Brooks, Deputy Chairman of the Race Relations Tink Tank Valerie Amos and Marcus Cato, African Caribbean Finance Forum and Herman Ouseley of Britain's Commission of Racial Equality are interviewed and Yvette Rowe reports (10:18-13:23)6. The West Indies begin the second day of the first test against Australia in Brisbane needing to strike early and consistently to restrict the Australians. Warren Gordon reports (13:24-15:25
Caribbean Report 23-09-1997
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:35)2. Another warning from Montserrat's scientist to the people of Salem -- leave by the weekend. Simon Young, Head of the Volcano Observatory is interviewed and James White, Jr reports (00:36-03:16)3. What is life like for the people of Salem? According to Calypsonian Arrow, it is one day at a time. James White, Jr reports (03:17-05:24)4. Europe warned not to stand in the way of the banana trade ruling. Charlene Barskefsky, United States Trade Representative, Jack Cunningham, Britain's Minister of Agriculture are interviewed and Debbie Ransome reports (05:26-08:12)5. The gap between the rich and poor nations is getting some attention at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Hong Kong. Chief Finance Minister, Gordon Brown and James Wolfensohn, Head World Bank are interivewed. Ken Richards reports (08:13-10:52)6. In Britain, the Commission for Racial Equality has found that black pupils are six times as likely as white children to be expelled from school and for Afro-Caribbean school children it is worst. They are also more likely to drift into crime and eventually prison. Guyanese born Sir Herman Ouseley of the Commission for Racial Equality is interviewed (10:53-12:20)7. Literary license or a licence to offend, a new book on slang criticised for including racist terms. Moya Thomas reports (12:21-15:26
Caribbean Report 05-08-1993
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:38)2. New allegations have been made in the case of Jamaican woman, Joy Gardner who collapsed and died after being restrained by police officers who had gone to her house to deport her. At a public meeting in North London, Joy Gardner’s mother, Myrna Simpson described what she believes had happened. Joy Gardner’s five-year old son is being treated for psychological problems after witnessing the struggle at his mother’s flat. A reverend spoke on the deportation of one, Dorothy Nwokedi on July 9th. Allyson Holt reports (00:39-04:12)3. At last night’s meeting, Joy Gardner’s mother, Myrna Simpson stressed that however strident the campaign for a public enquiry, it should be conducted with calm and reason. An independent post-mortem examination will take place on Monday. A second autopsy will also be held on Monday for the benefit of the three police officers suspended over the issue (04:13-05:00)4. Concerns are also expressed about the implications for race relations in Britain from the death of Joy Gardner. It is feared that racial tensions in the UK could be heightened. Interview with Herman Ouseley, Chairman of the Commission of Racial Equality in Britain (05:00-08:44)5. Belize’s Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel has reacted cautiously to a statement by the Guatemalan Vice President over relations between the two countries. Vice President, Arturo Herbruger said that the 1991 decision by former President, Jorge Serrano to grant diplomatic recognition to Belize was premature. However, Guatemalan current President, Ramiro de León Carpio had previously said that the Serrano’s decision would stand. Interview with Manuel Esquivel, Prime Minister of Belize (08:45-12:48)6. Dominican Republic’s President, Joaquín Balaguer is said to be recuperating in a Miami hospital after an urgent operation this week. It was the latest in a series of scares over the state of President Balaguer’s health, especially as campaigning is about to start for next year’s election. Yvette Rowe asked journalist, Ian Farley in Santo Domingo if the party can survive without him (12:49-14:27)7. In boxing, the pre-fight exchange of insults has started between Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis leading up to their million-dollar heavyweight encounter in October. The two boxers’ parents are from the Caribbean (14:28-14:55
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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