Global transportation bottlenecks that have surged since the Covid-19 pandemic have affected international trade. Clear evidence of this can be seen in the current situation with large numbers of vessels queuing up to enter the Panama Canal. This week some 101 vessels were awaiting clearance to make the 64km journey through the canal, six units […]

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Residents in at least 22 of Florida’s 67 counties are under evacuation orders as the state braces for Tropical Storm Idalia to make landfall. The storm is likely to curve inwards and make landfall somewhere on the west coast of Florida and then cross the state and enter the Atlantic Ocean, according to forecast predictions. “This […]

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The British airports have been thrown into disarray since Sunday by a glitch in the air traffic control system which has forced the cancellation of thousands of flights — at the height of the summer holiday season when British airports are at their busiest. The transport minister has scotched speculation that days of holiday at […]

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U.S. and Chinese officials expressed hope for positive economic relations this week as U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with Chinese leaders for a second day in Beijing to dicuss new channels for communication about trade and trade disputes. Chinese Premier Li Qiang told Raimondo that “sound economic relations and trade cooperation will not only […]

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Lawmakers and employers all over the United States have been pressing the federal government to make it easier and quicker for  asylum-seekers to get legal work permits, but there has been little sign of action on gridlocked Capital Hill. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul last Thursday publicly criticized the Biden administration for its inaction on […]

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Finally, after weeks of activties that included taking the ministry on the road so as to get the attention of business owners and the public  in St. Kitts, the brand-spanking-new Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship opened its doors this morning. Members of staff at the new Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship were on […]

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The Spanish National Police said on Friday they had confiscated 9.5 tonnes of cocaine blocks hidden in a refrigerated container full of bananas coming from Ecuador, in what became the largest  illicit drug shipment interception in Spain’s history.” In the course of a joint operation with the Customs Surveillance Service, agents of the National Police […]

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According to a study by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), the business climate in Latin America rose in the third quarter of 2023 to its best level in the last two years and the second best in almost six years, the economic research center FGV said. The so-called Latin American economic climate index (ICE), which […]

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Tesla is preparing to defend itself in two upcoming trials that claim that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to the deaths of drivers in California and Florida, in what will likely be a major test of Elon Musk’s claims about how road-ready the autopilot technology really is. Self-driving capability is central to […]

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Prime Minister Mark Phillips welcomed an  apology delivered in person by the descendants of John Gladstone, a former large-scale British plantation owner in Demerara, but  is also calling for an apology and reparations from both the Dutch and British Governments, to compensate descendents of African slaves in the territory now known as Guyana. The prime […]

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