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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EU has again lowered its protection of the Caribbean banana industry. The EU ministers have now approved an import tariff of Euro 176/tonne from January 1 for all WTO member countries, barring African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group former EU colonies, which receive a duty-free annual import quota of 775,000 tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LATEST World Health Organisation (WHO) figures on HIV/AIDS indicate some heavily afflicted countries are seeing infection rates fall. Kenya and Zimbabwe are among those with declining infections: amongst all adults in Kenya, from 10% in the late 1990s to 7% in 2003; and among pregnant women in Zimbabwe falling, from 26% in 2003 to 21% in 2004.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL, in Sint Maarten and Anguilla

DOLPHINARIUMS are an increasingly sought after once in a lifetime experience but these marine amusement parks remain controversial. Is it about big business exploiting these highly intelligent creatures for fat profits or do they provide people with an intimate experience that allows them to better understand them?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DECEMBER 2005’s semi-successful World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong means that the sacrifice forced upon the European Union’s (EU) well protected sugar sector the month before will – largely – be worth the pain. Unlike the previous big WTO meeting, in Cancun, Mexico, trade ministers did not leave in rancour having achieved little.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU must reconsider its planned Euro 187/tonne tariff for Latin America bananas, while Caribbean and African producers get an annual duty-free quota of 775,000 tonnes, said the WTO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been told by the WTO to reconsider its planned tariff of Euro 187 for bananas imported from Latin America, whilst Caribbean and African producers had an annual duty-free quota of 775,000 tonnes.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS
THE RELATIONSHIP between Caribbean people and tobacco could have at one time been described as virtually umbilical, with important outward feeders to Europe and other parts of the world. Tobago, the smaller unit of the twin-island state of Trinidad & Tobago, bears the name of the instrument used by native Amerindians 500 years ago to smoke Burly blends.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR exporting countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries have agreed at a meeting in Kenya to continue “a relentless fight” against planned European Union sugar reforms.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation disputes panel has branded unfair and illegal a European Union planned new banana import regime with a single tariff of Euro 230 per tonne for Latin American imports, exempting African, Caribbean and Pacific suppliers.…