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Charli Padilla and Abby Brandler were named co-grand prize winners at the EcoLab Sunday Night Spotlight Bites & Beats competition.
The banana has a slippery history in Pittsburgh, including an exploding produce warehouse, an iconic album cover and a famous ...
Banana producer Chiquita on Thursday announced it would lay off thousands of workers in Panama, following what it called "unjustified abandonment of work" on its farms and operations centres since ...
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the ...
Chiquita Banana brings free bananas—and a really cool bag—to Art Basel Miami Beach, capitalizing on Sotheby's $6.2 million banana artwork.
A crash on U.S. 49 and the MS Hwy 35 intersection in Mount Olive involved a Chiquita Banana 18-wheeler and a log truck. (WDAM) ...
Chiquita trucks enter the Port of Wilmington, Delaware, on Thursday morning. (Krishna Sharma/The Baltimore Banner) The dockworker, who declined to provide his name, said he’d worked at the port for ...
A strike at ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico could threaten Americans’ supply of bananas. Three-quarters of the nation’s bananas — more than 3.8 million metric tons — come t… ...
Between 1997 and 2004, Chiquita paid the AUC around $1.7 million to protect them against a rival paramilitary group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which had threatened its ...
On June 10, Colombian civilians, banana workers, and their families won a historic victory against Chiquita Brands International and its former subsidiary, Banadex. The 17-year-old case stemmed ...