Our Team
The Caribbean Service has earned a reputation for providing the news first over the last ten years. More than a million people in the Caribbean listen to the programmes broadcast from the Service's studios at Bush House, the home of BBC World Service.
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Debbie Ransome
made her name as a regional journalist while working for Radio Trinidad and the Caribbean News Agency. During that time, Debbie covered anything from an attempted coup in Trinidad to Reggae Sunsplash in Jamaica.
Debbie left her job as Radio Trinidad's News Director and correspondent for BBC in Trinidad to join the World Service in London in 1991. Here, she's worked as a Caribbean Service Producer, in the main newsroom at Bush House, as a Broadcast Journalist with World Service Television, and now as Head of the Caribbean Service.
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Orin
Gordon
is from Guyana. Orin makes much of the fact that he's the only "Continental" on the team and changes from being Caribbean to being South American depending on whether there's cricket or World Cup football going on.
He joined the Service in 1996 after eight years with the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation. At GBC, he worked in news and as an announcer on everything from "Woman's World" to the death announcements! |
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Ken
Richards
has been a journalist for twenty years, working with a number of media institutions in Dominica and the Caribbean, among them the Caribbean News Agency (Radio and Wire Services), Radio Antilles, Dominica Broadcsting Corporation, Voice of the Islands Radio (D/ca), Marpin Television - Dominica (Director of Production), and the Sun Newspaper - Dominica (editor).Outside of work, music is a serious hobby: he plays keyboards, guitar, and in the past steelpan and trumpet.
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Bertram
Niles
is an experienced Caribbean journalist who has worked
in senior positions with the Caribbean News Agency and
with newspapers and broadcast organisations in his native
Barbados, from where he freelanced for the BBC Caribbean
Service for several years before coming to London in 2001.
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Clare
Espie
is the department's part-time production assistant. She
manages the office, ensures the Service's correspondents
in the Caribbean region are paid and kept happy and helps
the producers put the programmes together. Clare recently
returned to the section after a two-year break.
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Susie
Blann
trained as a journalist and worked for a newspaper in
Argentina where she focused on Latin American affairs.
She now works for the Caribbean Service part-time and
freelances for Associated Press Television News. |
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Mike
Jarvis
first joined the Caribbean Service in 1991. After
spending just over two years with the team he
returned to the Caribbean where he continued filing
for Caribbean Report from the Netherlands Antilles.
Mike
has had many years in radio. Starting in his home
country in Montserrat, he has worked in the British
Virgin Islands, London and the Netherlands Antilles.
Now that he has relocated to the UK, Mike has
'come back home' to the Caribbean Service.
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Rosie
Hayes
Televison
and Radio journalism in the UK with Independent
Television News and the BBC was an important element
in clinching a post in Havana. Providing news
from Cuba was a challenge and an exciting experience.
It was there that the swing of Cuban salsa was
difficult to resist.
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Meet the Team
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Email: Caribbean Service
Or write to us:
BBC Caribbean Service,
Bush House, Strand, London WC2B 4PH
Tel: + 44 020 7557
1090
Fax:+ 44 020 7557
1060
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