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BY JAMES FULLER

MANY nations have has to review their anti-terrorist financing systems and laws since the September 11 attacks in America, with its implications stretching around the world, even to regions usually untouched by political terror, such as the Caribbean.…

BY MARVIN HOKSTAM

WHEN aviation executives gathered in Sint Maarten for the eighth Airports Conference of the Americas (July 20-22, 2008), not even the cosy Caribbean atmosphere could change their gloomy disposition on their industry. With rising fuel costs, out-of-control energy bills, airline capacity shortages and the effects of terrorism’s relentless onslaught in travel, aviation has no shortage of challenges; the officials acknowledged that there is no quick fix to their problems, so their discussions centred on alternatives.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ANGLO-Dutch oil giant Shell is not in much doubt that hydrogen is one of the fuels of the future, if not the fuel of the future. Barely a month ago, in June, Duncan Macleod, (NOTE: SPELLING IS CORRECT) global vice president of Shell Hydrogen, told an clean technology conference in the US that Shell had restructured its organisation "to prepare for hydrogen’s transition into the mainstream, bringing it into our downstream fuels portfolio, alongside gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG – as well as biofuels and GTL."…

BY BILL CORCORAN

WITH a crippled economy, inflation running at over 2.2 million per cent and a government partial to confiscating the assets and local operations of foreign companies when it sees fit, doing business in Zimbabwe is undoubtedly a risky undertaking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN END to the world’s longest international trade dispute – over banana and banana products – was close to being solved at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), but then the deal just slipped away. At the July ministerial meeting in Geneva that tried and failed to secure agreement over the Doha Development Round of trade liberalisation negotiations, a deal was struck between European Union (EU) and Latin American banana producers to cut the EU’s import duty to Euro 114 (US$179) a tonne by 2016 for so-called dollar bananas from Latin America, after an initial cut to Euro 148 in 2009 from Euro 176 now.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round negotiations appear to have broken down after nine days of tough, but ultimately fruitless negotiations, WTO officials told just-food.com. Diplomats were at 6.30pm GMT filing into a meeting of the WTO trade negotiations committee, expected to decide what happens next.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

PREGNANT women eating nuts or nut products increase their future babies’ risk of developing asthma by more than 50%, claim Dutch researchers. The data emerged from an asthma and mite allergy study funded by the Netherlands government.

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BY SUZANNE KOELEGA and JUHEL BROWNE

"CASINOS are an important part of the development of the Caribbean tourist sector, yet they hold a particular attraction to money launderers. Casinos provide the venues for large flows of cash, which launderers can utilise to disguise the true origins of their criminal proceeds."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has now formally opened its agency coordinating the policing of fishing rules in its member states’ fishing fleets, amidst a call for it to receive more powers. At a formal launch ceremony for the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) it its base in Vigo, Spain, a senior Spanish socialist MEP Rosa Miguélez Ramos said she hoped that "unlike previous [EU] agencies, it will extend its remit and its tasks".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has cleared a takeover of Dutch based food retail company Schuitema by investment fund CVC Fund IV, owned by CVC Capital Partners Group, of Luxemburg. CVC already controls Leaf International, a Dutch sugar confectionery manufacturer and supplier of Schuitema.…