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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EU has again lowered its protection of the Caribbean banana industry. The EU ministers have now approved an import tariff of Euro 176/tonne from January 1 for all WTO member countries, barring African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group former EU colonies, which receive a duty-free annual import quota of 775,000 tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DUTCH scientists have shown that bird flu vaccines could effectively halt the disease’s spread, as well as providing protection to individual vaccinated poultry. Tests carried out by the Central Institute for Animal Disease Control in Leystad, and Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands showed that two weeks after vaccination, two vaccines could "completely block the spread of the disease".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

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

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.…

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?…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IRELAND’S Celtic Tiger economy may have lost a little of its bounce recently, with double-digit annual growth figures no longer predicted. However, the beast is still in fine fettle, as a recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) observer report notes: “The economy has bounced back.…

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
LITTER collection and refuse disposal can pose environmental health hazards, so surely cities and towns would be cleaner if waste was sucked underground by a futuristic sucking mechanism. Sounds like the 22nd century, but actually, Swedish firm Envac Centralsug is already offering such a service.…

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.…