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NEW DRUG PRECURSOR INITIATIVE LAUNCHED IN AMERICAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INITIATIVE boosting the ability of Latin American and Caribbean countries to prevent precursor chemicals from being diverted from legitimate uses to illegal narcotic production has been launched. The UN Office in Drugs and Crime and European Commission’s three-year PRELAC project will cover: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela.…
COLOMBIA: IFC funds to promote education for low-income students
By Leah Germain
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is investing US$8 million into Colombia’s private higher education sector to promote affordable technical and professional education for the country’s low and middle-income students. The funds will help finance the private Colombian university, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto).…
IRAN STILL INTERNATIONAL PARIAH OVER MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
IRAN has been under international financial and other trading scrutiny since the Islamic revolution 30 years ago, with sanctions by the United States tightened under the Clinton administration through the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. And since Iran’s decision to embark on a nuclear programme, US sanctions have intensified, but in the face of such restrictions Iranian banks and individuals are increasingly using joint venture banks in the Middle East and South America to bypass scrutiny.…
INTRODUCTION - NUCLEAR ENERGY ANSWERS ITS CRITICS
BY KEITH NUTHALL, EMMA JACKSON and ALAN OSBORN
IN the early 1990s the nuclear power industry faced a bleak outlook. High profile accidents such as in Chernobyl and Three Mile Island in, Pennsylvania, the USA, had raised public concern about the safety of the industry to all time high.…
SOUTH AMERICA OFFERS TOBACCO MAJORS LUCRATIVE MARKETS, DESPITE TIGHTENING REGULATION
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
WHILE net revenues for tobacco product sales in some key countries in South America have experienced growth in the last few years, in general the regional tobacco product market is stagnant. Producers blame increased excise rates, public health awareness, and new and more rigidly enforced regulations for the gloom.…
FUEL RETAIL SECTORS CAN BE LOW PRIORITY FOR OIL-RICH CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STATES
BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas; MARVIN HOKSTAM, in Paramaribo, JAMES FULLER, in Port of Spain
IT may seem like a good thing for fuel retailers to be based in country that is sitting on a bounty of fuel reserves. But that is not necessarily the case, as many Latin American and Caribbean retailers can testify.…
SOUTHERN AFRICA PUSHES AHEAD TO EXPAND REFINERY CAPACITY
BY GEORGE STONE
SOUTHERN Africa has always been rich in natural resources, but its ability to process and manufacture them has not always matched this bounty. Oil refining capacity is a case in point and the governments of South Africa, Angola and Mozambique are trying to push forward.…
EFSA PROPOSES RELAXES PESTICIDE LIMIT FOR BANANAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has proposed relaxing a tight limit on residues of the pesticide thiram on bananas, which would enable Belgium’s Taminco NV to import the fruit from Ecuador, Costa Rica,
Columbia, Panama, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Brazil.…
VENEZUELA NATIONALISES FUEL DISTRIBUTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SOCIALIST government of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has nationalised the country’s fuel distribution sector. It was the last part of the Venezuelan oil industry largely in private hands, being handled by dozens of companies, including some multinationals.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…