Government of Jamaica to privatise coffee industry
The government will be divesting its share of the coffee industry. Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke announced in the Budget Debate yesterday that the divestment plan would be taken to Cabinet shortly, after which details of the programme would be announced.
Brazilian antitrust regulators fear energy monopoly
Brazil's antitrust body CADE has issued a decree to ensure that a three-company consortium led by the state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA does not create an energy monopoly in Latin America's largest country.
Ecuador pays off IMF debt of US$9m
Ecuador's leftist president said Sunday the country has paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund and will sever ties with the financial institution.In a news conference in the port city Guayaquil, Rafael Correa said it was a 'happy...
Next-generation Internet - Rebuilding effort likely to draw commercial, policy interests
The university researchers who began construction on the Internet some four decades ago never imagined the power their creation would have today. They toiled away in their labs quietly, and few outside cared.
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