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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 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 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 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 ALAN OSBORN
MORE than 20 years after an agreement was first proposed, a deal has been struck between the European Union (EU) and the United States over wine and both sides have acclaimed it. But has the EU given too much away?…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has revised proposed banana tariffs for Latin American suppliers to Euro 187 a tonne, whilst maintaining a zero-duty quota for African, Caribbean and Pacific bananas of 775,000 per year. The Commission has also asked the World Trade Organisation to rule on whether its new plan complies with global commerce regulations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has revised proposed banana tariffs for Latin American suppliers to Euro 187 a tonne, whilst maintaining a zero-duty quota for African, Caribbean and Pacific bananas of 775,000 per year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
A CARIBBEAN brewery claiming to manufacture the world’s only beer made from desalinated seawater will close, following a decision by its owners Antillean Brewery, which is 56% controlled by Heineken. Brewing a range of Amstel beers on the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao, the closure is likely to cost 55 employees their jobs.…