Caribbean banana producers are to use this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival to highlight the “crazy logic” they claim could destroy their businesses. Campaign group Banana Link says EU plans to abolish ...

In the humid depths of his banana farm, Ben Emmanuel is deflowering his young fruit. This is less alarming than it sounds. It simply means pinching off the withered flower heads from the tips of the ...

A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less ...

President Clinton met Saturday on this island nation with the leaders of 15 Caribbean countries, promising freer trade and receiving assurances of more help in fighting illegal drugs. But Clinton did ...

These are "Go Bananas After Dark" recipes from Dole Bananas. Makes 4 servings 2 fresh pineapples, peeled, sliced vertically 1 large, ripe firm banana, sliced in half vertically 1 mango, skinned, ...

Caribbean banana growers have warned the take-over of Safeway could spell disaster for their industry. What is at stake for us is not simply the sale of a few thousand boxes of bananas, but really the ...

THE ENTIRE NATION realizes by now that something big happened in Seattle last week during those raucous protests against the World Trade Organization. But if you’re like most Americans, which means ...

WHEN A UNITED STATES trade delegation arrived on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia two weeks ago, the visit seemed like a perfect escape from Washington: no more snow, no more scandals, no more tales ...