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Donald Trelford's subject file on the BWIA News Media Awards in Trinidad and Tobago in 1989.
Includes correspondence regarding Trelford's address at the Trinidad and Tobago (BWIA International) Airways Corporation's Annual News Media Awards 1989. Also includes a variety of Trinidadian newspapers and newspaper cuttings.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Editor's Office; Donald Trelford

Cartoon showing Soviet Union leader Khrushchev practising his draft speech for a party congress.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Margaret Thatcher and several cabinet ministers play in an orchestra under the banner 'The Monetarist Newsounds' in a flooded ship. They are reading from a sheet labelled 'There is no alternative.' A man labelled 'Tory Party' and a woman watch the show. The man gestures to a lifeboat out the window in which Edward Heath plays the piano from a sheet labelled 'Consensus,' while Geoffrey Rippon and another figure, wearing a life jacket labelled 'Blue Chip 14' and beckoning out of frame, accompany him.

Margaret Thatcher and a [Tory politician] fly over grave site representing the lives lost during her time as British Prime Minister whilst campaigning for the 1983 General Election in an aircraft that reads 'CONSERVATIVE MOBILE HQ ELECTION 1983!'

Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe are riding horses on a road that leads to a castle labelled 'FORT INCOME TAX'. To the right of them are windmills that are shaped as a cigarette packet, a wine glass, a beer and a petrol pump. In front of them is 'MARCH 10' written on the ground and in front of that are people who are working in the ground looking back at Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe.

Two children sit under a tree labelled "western capitalism" one looks joyously up towards the tree, the other looks towards the reader with a expression of horror on his face. The caption reads "By the way - what happens to the pretty tree after Christmas?". On top of the tree there is a fairy decoration with the face of a male [politician].

Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Denis Winston Healey, Roy Harris Jenkins and Barbara Castle are depicted walking in Roman dress. Wilson leads with his pipe and the other four creep behind him carry swords. Callaghan, the closest to Wilson, holds his weapon high above the Prime Minster's head.

[News from 13 May: Harold Wilson dropped Home Secretary James Callaghan from his inner cabinet after Callaghan had sided with the TUC in opposing reforms announced in Barbara Castle's White Paper 'In Place of Strife'. At least 100 MPs were rebelling and there had been an attempted coup by Labour left-wingers to topple Mr. Wilson.] (Source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive)

Depicts James Callaghan as an angel in front of the 'OILY GATES' labelled with a ''WELCOME TO ECONOMIC PARADISE' sign. On the other side, Jimmy Carter comes out of the exit.

Depicts [Margaret Thatcher] and [Norman Fowler], kicking a parachute labelled SERPS [State Earnings Related Pension Supplement] out of a plane labelled 'Thatcher free fall classes' in front of a man looking worriedly out of the plane at a house labelled 'retirement'. Next to the plane, is another plane, that looks like a private plane, with a wealthy looking man holding a parachute which is labelled 'private pension schemes' with another label saying 'modestly priced'.

Cartoon shows a procession of miserable-looking [Labour cabinet ministers] holding handkerchiefs, being led by [James Callaghan]. At the head of the procession Harold Wilson talks with [Barbara Castle], Castle is asking Wilson a question and Wilson is gaze is towards the reader, looking very irate.