Search Results for: Caribbean

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) should be completed this June. It has involved an apron expansion, landscaping and the construction of a sewerage treatment plant, a control tower and a new runway.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS a truly global criminal problem, it is only right that fighting money laundering is a key priority of the United Nations (UN). Its general assembly and key committees have made declarations and approved conventions on the subject, and its specialist agencies have also devoted time, money, specialist staff and energy to fighting the problem.…

Keith Nuthall
AIR tickets for young, old and poor passengers, plus family groups, flying between France’s Caribbean islands Guadeloupe and Saint Martin and the French mainland will be subsidised Euro 100-300 per person by the national government.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has authorised the French government to subsidise airline Air Caraïbes’ equipping of two Airbus A 330-200’s to fly between its Caribbean departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique and mainland France. Air Caraïbes would enter the trans-Atlantic market as a result.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT’S not quite “back to the drawing board chaps” for sugar reform in the European Union (EU) now that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has formally ruled against the present system but some new thinking is surely needed – and quickly.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ITALIAN government is likely to come under pressure from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to increase the liberalisation of its groundhandling services market. In a formal opinion to the court, which are usually followed by judges, ECJ advocate general Philippe LÃ(c)ger has ruled that by protecting the social rights of existing groundhandling services and their staff, Italy is breaking directive 96/67/EC, the European Union’s first attempt to open up this airport sector.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations agency coordinating the world’s airlines has claimed the industry is finally shaking off its post-September 11 gloom and will post robust growth figures this year and onto 2006. Predictions released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) say that global airline passenger traffic should grow by 6.2% this year and continue to expand by 5.4% in 2005 and 5.2% in 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BLOW to smaller developing countries far from key American and European markets from the abolition of protective quotas in January could be cushioned by the continuing use of preferential tariffs, a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report has predicted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU has lost a WTO disputes proceedings over its planned new banana import regime. A panel branded unfair Brussels plans for a single tariff of Euro 230 per tonne for Latin American imports, whilst exempting African, Caribbean and Pacific suppliers group (ACP).…