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NURSING is always a challenging profession, but the chance to use life-saving health skills in the wake of natural disasters and civil conflicts is valuable to many nurses.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tap a UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR) database established by UK-Med, which includes the details of nurses and doctors available to be flown into disaster zones where local health services have been overwhelmed.…

The Philippine garment industry says it will relaunch its lobbying efforts to push a law through the US Congress giving it privileged access to American markets, after the shelving of the long anticipated proposed America’s Save Our Industries Act (SAVE Act).…

IT is common sense that for really fast fashion, sourcing should be made as close to a home market as costs will allow. And for the world’s two largest fast fashion markets – the European Union (EU) and the United States – geography does provide some useful neighbours able to offer lower cost out-sourcing, albeit not as cheap as in east and south Asia.…

THE WORLD’S 49 least developed countries have been given another eight years to implement the intellectual property protection rules demanded by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This means that their governments have the freedom to choose whether to protect trademarks, patents, copyright, industrial designs, geographical indications and other rights, potentially harming pharma companies.…

WITH mobile communication service providers facing an increasingly complex but growing market, they are being offered a range of third party services to help navigate a path to maximum profitability in this new commercial world. And with consumers using multiple devices and switching between data, video and voice, it is useful not only to be supplied software systems that helps make sense of this communications Babel, but to be advised and helped along the way.…

BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Commission is hoping that the recent overhaul of the European Union’s (EU) Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) will increase the flow of rare earth metals and aluminium oxide into the EU. Concerns persist about supplies of these important industrial minerals.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

CARIBBEAN jurisdictions are stereotypically seen as information black-holes whose minimal filing requirements for companies and trusts facilitate fraud.

Think Stanford International Bank and Westbond International Bank, two Antigua based vehicles for high-profile Ponzi schemes. Also, the Madoff scandal in the USA led to the liquidators of Fairfield Sentry – a British Virgin Islands (BVI) domiciled hedge fund that was among Madoff’s main victims – unsuccessfully trying to claim back money from investors who had legally withdrawn money from Sentry.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE, IN PORT-AU-PRINCE

HAITI: American universities help Haiti higher education recover from earthquake

Garry Pierre Pierre

Two years after suffering from an earthquake on January 12, 2010, that wreaked intense damage on universities, Haiti’s higher education sector has benefited from international efforts that have revamped not only buildings but helped reconstruct curricula.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is more than 18 months since the earthquake that ravaged Haiti seriously damaged Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, notably its air traffic control tower, rendering it unusable. The airport suffered structural damage to its terminal building walls and there were some major electrical faults.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A HEAVY fuel oil-fired power plant supplying 30 MW of electricity to Haiti has started operations on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. The US dollars USD57 million plant was funded by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), South Korea’s Korea East-West Power Co, Ltd, and local investors.…