Stories for October 2013

Monday, October 21st 2013 - 21:25 UTC
Gibraltar Day in London attended by the Rock's Chief Minister and cabinet

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo is in the UK to attend Gibraltar Day in London and various other events this week. CM Picardo is accompanied by several other Gibraltar Government ministers who will also participate in the scheduled events, including Finance Minister Albert Isola, Education and Justice Minister Gilbert Licudi and Neil Costa, the Minister for Tourism, Public Transport, Commercial Affairs and the Port.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:52 UTC
Support for Saudi Arabia's rejection of UN Security Council seat

Saudi Arabia's Gulf Arab allies and Egypt have applauded its decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body's failure to act on Syria, whose leader is backed by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:42 UTC
Fears that proposal for MPA in the Ross Sea will again succumb at CCAMLR

The world's biggest marine reserve in Antarctica may have to be given an expiry date to get countries with interests in the prized waters to agree to it. Delegations from 25 nations are resuming in Tasmania a New Zealand-US proposal for a marine protected area (MPA) in the fish-rich Ross Sea, 3500km south of New Zealand.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:33 UTC
Antarctic scientists address toothfish and icefish stocks and catch limits in Australia

With the attendance of delegations from the twenty five members from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the annual gathering of international Antarctic scientists and policy makers took off on Monday in Australia.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:47 UTC
Barroso optimistic about coming 'events' in EU/Mercosur trade negotiations

The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso anticipated that 'soon' there will be 'events' referred to the EU/Mercosur cooperation and trade agreement and underlined that Brazil is most interested in making possible such an accord.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:39 UTC
Brazil's development bank to target infrastructure and less on corporations

Brazil will inject less money next year into the country's development bank BNDES, (National economic and social development bank), its leading source of long-term corporate loans, to focus more on infrastructure financing as concerns mount over public debt.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:13 UTC
Uruguay among the countries in Latam with the highest power costs

Uruguay is among the Latin-American and Caribbean countries with the highest power costs according to a paper from the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, Bloomberg and New Energy Finance. This is extensive both for residential consumers and for manufacturing and large consumers.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 07:01 UTC
Too many summits: Ibero-American countries decide to meet every other year

In a poorly attended Ibero-American summit held during two days in Panama, the heads of state and government from the Americas, plus Spain and Portugal, decided that instead of holding annual meetings they would get together every other year, starting after the 2014 summit in Veracruz, Mexico.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 06:49 UTC
EU and Canada sign agreement expected to increase bilateral trade by over 20%

A landmark trade deal reached between the European Union (EU) and Canada, that will benefit the UK economy and businesses by over £1.3 billion a year, has been welcomed by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Monday, October 21st 2013 - 06:21 UTC
Venezuela clamps down on 'currency tourism' with random checks at airports

The 'dollar-scarce' Venezuelan government is trying to clamp down on what it calls “currency tourism” with random checks of passengers leaving the country. The officials at the country's main airports are not guards or police but bureaucrats at state currency board Cadivi investigating whether travelers' documents match their requests for hard-to-get dollars.