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 bananas are seen on a supermarket shelf. Chiquita announced it would lay off thousands of workers in Panama, following what it called "unjustified abandonment of work" on its farms and ...

The Panamanian subsidiary of U.S. banana giant Chiquita Brands announced a mass dismissal of workers on Thursday, nearly a month after a strike that has cost the company an estimated US $75 million.

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The tragicomic saga of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana is reaching new highs (and lows) at Miami Art Week. Most prominent is the presence of Chiquita itself at Art Basel Miami Beach as a ...

Once again, Art Basel Miami Beach has gone bananas—but this time, the fruit is free, and you might get a really cool Chiquita banana bag to go with it. On the heels of the headline-making $6.2 ...

In what may or may not be a cheeky comment on the art-world banana furor, one fair sponsor, Chiquita Bananas, installed a cart filled with the yellow tropical fruit outside the Grand Ballroom ...

In late September, Chiquita, in partnership with KeyGene, MusaRadix, and Wageningen University and Research (WUR), announced the new Yelloway One, a banana hybrid that it says is resistant to ...

Following 17 years of legal proceedings, victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia have obtained justice, as a jury found the banana company Chiquita Brands International liable for financing ...

Last week, Chiquita Brands International — one of the world’s largest banana distributors — was found liable in a Florida court for financing a Colombian paramilitary group.