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BY MARK WILSON
AWASH with recently-passed legislation and newly-established Financial Investigation Units, the small nations of the Caribbean have transformed their money laundering controls since the mid-1990s. In 2000, five Caribbean island jurisdictions made up one-third of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of fifteen non-cooperative countries and territories, each of them with ‘serious systemic problems,’ in the words of a FATF review published on June 22 of that year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN has been given a relatively clean bill of health in the latest Transparency International corruption rankings, being viewed as joint-11th least-corrupt country in the world, sharing its billing with Canada and Luxembourg. Finland was the most honest place in which to do business said the pressure group’s survey, followed by Iceland and the Denmark plus New Zealand at joint third.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
OFFICIALS from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have traced feed given to cows that caused two cases of BSE in Canada and the USA and suspect that some imported British feed could be to blame. It was fed to the animals as calves, prior to the introduction of comprehensive tissue bans for feed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BIRD flu outbreak that has paralysed global poultry markets could spark a related deadly human influenza pandemic, for which preparations must be laid, a World Health Organisation summit has concluded. “We have seen how many countries were preparing for terrorism and bioterrorism and we wish to point out that Mother Nature is the biggest bioterrorism of all,” said participant Dr Angus Nicoll, director of England & Wales’ Public Health Laboratory Service’s communicable disease surveillance centre.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
THE PAST decade has seen China grasp an increasing share of the world’s cosmetic packaging industry. Low production prices and international manufacturing standards — to say nothing of an increasing appreciation of the beauty business — have all contributed to the People’s Republic upping its packaging profile.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will spend over Euro 2.2 million in three years promoting EU wine. Euro 1.22 million is shared by the Union interprofessionelle des Vins du Beaujolais and Deutsches Weininstitut pushing wine in Japan and Euro 440,000 goes to Portugal’s Commissao de Viticultura a Regiao dos Vinhos Verdes for USA, Canada and Switzerland campaigns, for instance.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A VANCOUVER-based bookseller is claiming the Canadian government is violating a supreme court decision on obscenity by continuing to allow customs officials to seize gay sado-masochistic publications bound for its shop. Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium returning to court to challenge a particular seizure of adult comics called The Meatmen.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CORPORATE directors in Canada are bracing themselves for accounting scandals in their own companies, according to a survey by KPMG. Of 116 directors surveyed, 46 per cent said it was possible their own boards could face problems of financial misconduct while only 54 per cent were confident they would not encounter incidences of financial manipulation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AIR Canada has won a court battle giving it preferential use of all 14 covered gates in Toronto Pearson International Airport’s new terminal. The airline complained at Ontario Superior Court that Greater Toronto Airports Authority reneged on a commitment regarding these gates, by forcing it to share claims to eight with Calgary-based WestJet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has banned the import into the European Union (EU) of live poultry, poultry meat and products from Canada, following the conformed outbreak of bird flu in poultry at a British Columbia farm. As with the recent US outbreak, this virus strain differs from the Asian version, posing a smaller public health risk.…