Search Results for: America

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that beef cattle from Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua have an increasing risk of being infected with BSE, although it is currently “unlikely”. EFSA noted potentially contaminated beef livestock had been imported in the 1990s from north America and Europe, and that local controls were “unstable”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ECUADOR, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala have launched disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation opposing planned European Union duties on their banana exports from 2006, when current quotas are scrapped. Caribbean producers will pay lower tariffs.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCORES of Internet tobacco retailers have shut down in America after all major credit card companies refused to accept payment for tobacco products bought online, the New York Times has reported.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had warned credit card companies most such sales were illegal.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has thrown in the towel over persuading the USA to sign the Kyoto Protocol. However, the Greek has committed himself to involving Washington in negotiations to create an anti-global warming agreement that takes the world beyond the Kyoto deadline of 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SECONDARY education is expanding rapidly worldwide, with enrolments increasing from 321 million in 1990 to 492 million in 2002/03, says UN education organisation UNESCO. The fastest growth has occurred in South America which, along with Europe, now has the world’s highest enrolment ratios: almost 100%.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s latest global development indicators show sub-Saharan Africa as the world’s laggard regarding the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. For instance, east Asia/Pacific; eastern Europe/central Asia; Latin America/Caribbean; and the Middle East/north Africa regions have moved solidly towards reducing child mortality by two-thirds in 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PREPARED roast chicken sales in the U.S have skyrocketed since the 1970’s with consumers spending more than US$2.5 billion every year in supermarkets according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America. The reason for the surge is due to convenience and the fact that the price difference between raw chickens are cooked ones is minimal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s re-election last November has pretty well ruled out any change in the US ban on Cuban cigars for the next four years – if anything, things are likely to get tougher. One of the last things the previous Bush administration did last October was to actually tighten the import ban by barring Americans travelling to Cuba from bringing back up to US$100 dollars worth of Cuban cigars.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW industries are as touchy about their image as the American gambling business but given the way the industry is portrayed by Hollywood this is understandable. Whether or not people are right to hold the industry in such suspicion these days is debatable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to spend Euro 468,500 over one year on promoting the sale of Italian beef and veal in Japan, north America, Russia and non-European Union (EU) European countries. There will be matching national government funding for public relations, promotion and publicity campaign coordinated by cooperative organisation Naturalcarni.…