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BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

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.…

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.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning from 2006 to introduce Euro 230/tonne duties on Latin American bananas imported into the EU, while African, Caribbean and Pacific suppliers would pay lower duties. Dollar bananas currently attract Euro 75/tonne.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS government has shown how rich countries can fulfil their Kyoto Protocol commitments by promoting the overseas development of efficient green energy production, claimed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Dutch are funding a Euro 5 million conversion of a Bulgarian paper mill from generating energy via oil and gas to biomass via the EBRD-managed Euro 32 million Netherlands Emissions Reduction Co-operation Fund.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SUGAR action plan has been published by the European Commission to help African, Caribbean and Pacific producers improve their efficiency, after the liberalisation of the European Union sugar regime makes Europe’s market more competitive. Brussels will also help these sugar producers adopt different crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AFRICAN, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar producing developing countries have attacked European Commission common market reform plans that would erode their existing preferential sugar trade regime with the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HONDURAS government is seeking to improve its victory over the Dominican Republic in its disputes case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where a panel ruled last December that the Caribbean island state had unfairly restricted the import of Honduran cigarettes.…

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.…