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Caribbean with Simon Reeve

Caribbean with Simon Reeve
★ 7.7/10•2015•NR•Documentary
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Simon Reeve travels around the Caribbean Sea in this stunning series. With insight, humour and warmth Simon discovers an extraordinary, extreme region, as well as some of the pressing issues facing wildlife and people living there.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateMar 22, 2015

Episodes

Episode 1 - Dominican Republic, Haiti & Puerto RicoE1

Dominican Republic, Haiti & Puerto Rico

Simon Reeve starts his Caribbean journey in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico.

Mar 22, 2015

Episode 2 - Barbados, Venezuela & ColombiaE2

Barbados, Venezuela & Colombia

On Barbados, Simon examines the contrast between the very rich's opulent beach houses and the relative poor local dwellings. On nearby, poorer, yet soil-rich St.Vincent, he visits the local farmers' cannabis plantation on the volcanic slopes and their prime minister, considering legalization of the 'soft' drug. In Venezuela, he finds a rich oil-country under terrible government can fall deeper into misery, over the Colombian border, a major smuggle route, that a former guerrilla battleground can rehabilitate.

Mar 29, 2015

Episode 3 - Nicaragua, Honduras & JamaicaE3

Nicaragua, Honduras & Jamaica

Simon enters continental Central America in Nicaragua, the poorest Americna country after Haiti, and finds that's largely the fault of the Sandinista government's misrule after the Contra civil war. Locals grimly disagree about the projected larger alternative to the Panama Canal, costing thrice the GNP, massive expropriation -disrupting natives- and wildlife destruction without guaranteed jobs for poorly schooled locals. in Honduras, a violent political history seems overtaken by drug-related gang wars, terrorizing the civilians and forcibly recruiting even pre-teens. Simon ends his journey on Jamaica, where re-migrants from the US play a major part in the ambitious government's efforts to turn the tide by cleaning up its own ranks, especially the corrupt police, and modernize the economy.

Apr 5, 2015

Actors

Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve

Himself

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