BBC Caribbean was officially discontinued yesterday.

The Caribbean Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Caribbean) was officially discontinued yesterday.



The service is among several that were cut by the London-based broadcaster as part of the cost cutting measures forced upon it by the policies of the David Cameron coalition government.



But while praising the BBC for the more than twenty years service to the Caribbean, Chairman of CARICOM Tillman Thomas yesterday praised the work of BBC service to the region.



Thomas, who is also the Prime Minister of Grenada, said that the BBC Caribbean Service had been an objective, reliable and informative service to the Caribbean population.



He said the service was something that all had grown accustomed to in the region and effort should have been made to maintain it.

The BBC Caribbean started its broadcast to the region in 1939 with the programme “Calling the West Indies”.



The programme was then suspended but again returned in 1988.