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INTRODUCTION - NUCLEAR ENERGY ANSWERS ITS CRITICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…
SOUTH AMERICA OFFERS TOBACCO MAJORS LUCRATIVE MARKETS, DESPITE TIGHTENING REGULATION
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
WHILE net revenues for tobacco product sales in some key countries in South America have experienced growth in the last few years, in general the regional tobacco product market is stagnant. Producers blame increased excise rates, public health awareness, and new and more rigidly enforced regulations for the gloom.…
EFSA PROPOSES RELAXES PESTICIDE LIMIT FOR BANANAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has proposed relaxing a tight limit on residues of the pesticide thiram on bananas, which would enable Belgium’s Taminco NV to import the fruit from Ecuador, Costa Rica,
Columbia, Panama, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Brazil.…
SOUTHERN AFRICA PUSHES AHEAD TO EXPAND REFINERY CAPACITY
BY GEORGE STONE
SOUTHERN Africa has always been rich in natural resources, but its ability to process and manufacture them has not always matched this bounty. Oil refining capacity is a case in point and the governments of South Africa, Angola and Mozambique are trying to push forward.…
FUEL RETAIL SECTORS CAN BE LOW PRIORITY FOR OIL-RICH CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STATES
BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas; MARVIN HOKSTAM, in Paramaribo, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain
IT may seem like a good thing for fuel retailers to be based in country that is sitting on a bounty of fuel reserves. But that is not necessarily the case, as many Latin American and Caribbean retailers can testify.…
VENEZUELA NATIONALISES FUEL DISTRIBUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOCIALIST government of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has nationalised the country’s fuel distribution sector. It was the last part of the Venezuelan oil industry largely in private hands, being handled by dozens of companies, including some multinationals.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…
ADVANCEMENTS IN FRAUD AND FRAUD PREVENTION IN LATIN AMERICA
BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas
LATIN AMERICA has long been notorious for its high levels of corruption, especially through money laundering, bribery and the illicit drug trade. And although the recent years of relative stability and democratisation in the region have brought economic progress, this has also widened the opportunities for fraudulent activities and fuelled an increasing sophistication by which they are performed.…
VENEZUELAN NURSE LOVES JOB, BUT PLANS TO QUIT 'UNDERAPPRECIATED' PROFESSION
BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
BIOGRAPHY
Olga Sandoval, 29, Licensed Nurse, University Hospital (Hospital Clinico Universitario), Caracas, Venezuela
Nursing License, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Worked for two years in the San Roman Urological Clinic and seven years at the University Hospital, including one year of intensive care training.…
ARGENTINA OILS & FATS
BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
AS one of South America’s largest economies and the world’s leading
exporter of soy and sunflower oil, Argentina experienced a GDP growth rate
of 8.4 percent in 2006 and 7.9 percent a year earlier, according to the US
Energy and Information Administration.…