Search Results for: Caribbean
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ECJ CHIQUITA BRANDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHIQUITA Brands, the American fruit company behind the US-led assault on Europe’s protection of fragile Caribbean banana producers, has lost a bid for damages against the European Commission for standing in its way. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) threw out Chiquita’s case.…
CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUMMIT meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has decided to formally inaugurate the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on April 16 at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This is despite the Privy Council ruling that Jamaica had broken its own constitution in passing a law replacing its Law Lords as a final court of appeal with the CCJ.…
FOOD WORLD - FEBRUARY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-DIOXIN LIKE PCB CONTAMINATION WARNING – EFSA
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/contam/contam_opinions/1229/contam_op_ej284_ndl-pcb_en1.pdf
ECJ SMOKED FLAVOURINGS CRISPS – BRITAIN APPEAL
A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a British government attempt to strike down a EU regulation controlling smoke flavourings in foods.…
WHO AIDS DECREASE - AFRICA, CARIBBEAN
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.…
EU SUGAR REFORM MARKET REPORT - CAP
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.…
CARIBBEAN DOLPHINARIUM VOX POP
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?…
CARIBBEAN RELIGION AIDS WORK COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUMMIT meeting of 100 Caribbean religious leaders has agreed that their organisations and laity will cooperate with and actively support governmental, non-governmental and other agencies fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS, while helping care for people infected with the disease.…
UN AUDIT OFFICE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan facing unprecedented pressure for his resignation over the involvement of his son in the brewing Iraq oil for food scandal, the spotlight has again fallen on the finances of his global body.…
BVI AIRPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) should be completed this June. It has involved an apron expansion, landscaping and the construction of a sewerage treatment plant, a control tower and a new runway.…
CARIBBEAN FLIGHTS
Keith Nuthall
AIR tickets for young, old and poor passengers, plus family groups, flying between France’s Caribbean islands Guadeloupe and Saint Martin and the French mainland will be subsidised Euro 100-300 per person by the national government.…