The U.S. food storage container market was valued at USD 36.15 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.67% from 2023 to 2029, reaching USD 42.36 Billion by 2029.
The plastic material segment dominated the U.S. food storage container market with a share of over 50% in 2023. The segment’s growth is due to its affordability, versatility, lightweight, leakproof & airtight properties, and durability. Plastic is generally known as the most affordable material for food storage containers, making it more accessible to a wide range of consumers.
The jars, canisters, & cans product segment is growing significantly, with the fastest CAGR of 2.74% during the forecast period. The segment’s growth is rising significantly due to growing demand for portion control and meal preparation, increasing focus on food safety & preservation, and rising popularity of sustainable & reusable options.
The residential sector has the highest market size in terms of revenue in the end-user segment of the U.S. food storage container market. The demand for food storage containers from the residential segment is growing significantly due to various factors, including cooking habits, income level, and regional preferences. Frequent meal preparation may require various containers. Bulk buying habits and larger families may lead to demand for sets and larger containers for storing dry goods like flour and grains.
Online stores are the fastest-growing segment, with a CAGR of 3.74% of the distribution channel segmentation in the U.S. food storage containers market. Many online platforms provide same-day delivery options, giving convenient access to containers. As consumers can see detailed product information and user reviews, it helps make informed decisions and helps drive the market.
MARKET TRENDS
Increasing Demand for Glass Containers: Demand for glass containers is growing significantly in the U.S. market due to various reasons, including health concerns, increased focus on sustainability, rising demand for transparent containers, improved functionality, and premium perception. Glass containers are durable and known for storing food for a longer period. Glass is a non-porous material which does not leach chemicals. Thus, it is one of the ideal options for food storage. Glass containers are easily available in nearby supermarkets and specialty stores in various sizes and shapes. It makes them more versatile for the storage of food. Currently, many glass containers are dishwasher-safe, microwave-safe, and oven-safe. Thus, it is more convenient for consumers. Glass containers are more upscale and stylish than plastic containers. It drives the demand for food storage containers in the U.S. market during the forecast period.
Growing Popularity of Sustainable Containers: The popularity of sustainable containers is significantly increasing in the U.S. market for various reasons, including environmental concerns, consideration of health, innovations, and marketing of products. With rising pollution and its environmental impact, consumers are looking for food storage products made of biodegradable and reusable alternatives. The potential risks of using harsh chemicals in plastic containers are a significant concern in the U.S. market. Food storage container manufacturing companies offer new innovative, sustainable products made from glass, bioplastic, stainless steel, and bamboo. 70% of the Gen Z population in the U.S. is willing to pay more for sustainable products. During the forecast period, it drives the demand for food storage containers in the U.S. market.
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The U.S. food storage container market report contains exclusive data on 50 vendors. The U.S. food storage container market is highly fragmented due to a larger number of players ranging from regional, small manufacturers to large, international players.
The top 5 companies occupy only 30% of the market share. Amcor PLC, Berry Global Inc., Newell Brands, O-I Glass, Inc., Silgan Holdings Inc., and Tupperware Brands Corporation are the leading players with strong market penetration.
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The strong results bolstered the Biden campaign’s argument that grass-roots energy will swell as the November election approaches and voters come to terms with the choice between Biden and Donald Trump.
Biden and Trump — who both became their party’s presumptive nominees last week — are locked in a rematch of the 2020 presidential election, though early polling averages show Trump with a slight advantage in national and multiple battleground state polls, a reversal of the situation for most of the 2020 race. Third-party and independent presidential contenders are also polling higher than at this point in 2020.
The Biden campaign has moved this month to capitalize on its financial advantage over Trump, who is just now integrating his operation with the Republican National Committee. The Biden team has announced plans to open more than 100 offices this month and has launched a $30 million spring advertising campaign in key states.
“Every single dime that we raise right now is going to talk to voters, whether that is on TV in ads, whether that is online in ads, whether that is opening offices,” said Rufus Gifford, the campaign’s finance chair. “Our opponents are spending tens of millions of dollars on legal fees. This is a huge, huge, huge advantage that we do have, and we are excited about that.”
Trump political committees spent more than $55 million last year on legal fees defending the former president as he faces multiple lawsuits and four separate criminal prosecutions, according to campaign finance disclosures.
The February total of $53 million raised between Biden’s campaign and other party accounts eclipses the amount raised by President Barack Obama during the same period in 2012, but not when inflation is taken into account. Obama raised $45 million in February of that year, which adjusts to about $61 million in current spending power, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But Biden clearly eclipsed Obama in another measure. While Obama reported nearly 350,000 donors in February of 2012, the Biden campaign claimed 469,000 unique donors at the same point in the current cycle. The Biden effort has received 3.4 million donations since the start of the campaign from 1.3 million donors, the campaign said in a release. Gifford said the totals had beaten the campaign’s internal expectations, which he declined to disclose.
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg — a co-chair of the campaign who appeared in a picture with the president prepping for the State of the Union address at Camp David this month — said the biggest shift in recent months came from Biden’s increased campaigning, including a Jan. 5 speech in Pennsylvania to commemorate the U.S. Capitol attack before Biden’s inauguration.
“As it has become clearer and clearer that this is now a choice, the enthusiasm and the excitement really started coming out of Valley Forge in January, where the president really started to hit the campaign trail and got into campaign mode and started talking to and engaging much more actively with donors,” Katzenberg said. “You know the more they see him, the more their confidence and enthusiasm [grows].”
The campaign reported a 40 percent increase in February email fundraising from a month earlier, crediting the shift to messages focused on Trump. Another bright spot was fundraising centered around a late-March event in New York City, where Biden will appear at Radio City Music Hall with former presidents Obama and Bill Clinton.
The February totals also came before Biden’s March 7 State of the Union address, which was widely praised by Democrats and led to a $10 million fundraising haul in the 24-hour period after the speech. Since that speech, Biden has kicked off a tour of battleground states, picking up the pace of campaigning that many anxious Democrats were eager for him to do.
He visited Pennsylvania and Georgia in the days after the State of the Union and last week campaigned in New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin. This week, he will travel to Nevada and Arizona.
Since the State of the Union, the president has also sharpened his attacks against Trump, castigating him as a threat to individual rights, freedom and democracy.
In the first ad of the newly launched $30 million advertising campaign, the president directly confronts concerns about his age.
“Look, I’m not a young guy,” Biden says, opening the 60-second spot. “That’s no secret, but here’s the deal: I understand how to get things done for the American people.”
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Hubert Davis Q&A:
HD: “I’m just really excited for the guys. We’re a number one seed because of the work this team has done this season. I’m proud of how they have worked all season, how they’ve played, how they have prepared and how from the start of the season they have wanted to be a team. To be given an opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament is a big deal. I know the importance of being able to play close to home, so playing in Charlotte for potentially the first two rounds and being closer to our fans is a big deal for us, but it’s just fun coming into the tournament.”
Q: Two years ago, when UNC came up as a number eight seed, you told the players the seed number doesn’t matter.
HD: “I told them that again today. It’s great being a number one seed but it’s an NCAA Tournament. It’s 68 accomplished teams so you have to come play, whatever seed you are, wherever you play, so our preparation, practice and play will be the same as it’s been for 34 games. We’re excited about the challenge.”
UNC NCAA Tournament Facts & Figures
• The Tar Heels are a No. 1 seed for the 18th time, most in NCAA history, and for the first time since 2019.
• Carolina’s No. 1 seeds include 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2024.
• Carolina has a 63-12 record as a top seed.
• Carolina advanced to the Final Four as a No. 1 seed 10 times: 1982, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017.
• The Tar Heels advanced to the Final Four out of the West Region in 1981.
• UNC’s last five NCAA titles came as a No. 1 seed (1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017).
• Carolina is making its 53rd NCAA Tournament appearance, second in history behind Kentucky’s 61. The Tar Heels are 131-49 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
• UNC has won 131 NCAA Tournament games (most in history) and played in 180 (second-most behind Kentucky’s 184).
• Carolina’s NCAA Tournament winning percentage of .728 is second-best in history.
• UNC has made 21 Final Four appearances, most in tournament history.
• The Tar Heels’ six NCAA championships (1957-82-93-2005-09-17) are third-most in history behind UCLA’s 11 and Kentucky’s eight.
• Hubert Davis is the fourth Tar Heel head coach to lead a team to a No. 1 seed (Dean Smith eight times, Roy Williams eight times, Bill Guthridge once).
• This is the eighth time UNC will play in the West Region: 1978, 1981 (2 seed), 1986 (3 seed), 1988 (2 seed), 1999 (3 seed), 2015 (4 seed), 2018 (2 seed), 2024 (1 seed).
• Carolina has the most wins in NCAA Tournament history (131), the most Final Fours (21), the second-highest winning percentage (.728), the second-most games (180) and the third-most NCAA Tournament titles (6).
• The Tar Heels are 12-1 in NCAA Tournament play in Charlotte (1-0 in 1975, 1-0 in 1982, 1-0 in 1984, 2-0 in 1987, 2-0 in 2005, 2-0 in 2008, 2-0 in 2011 and 1-1 in 2018).
• Carolina plays the winner of the Howard/Wagner play-in game. The Tar Heels are 5-0 all-time vs. Howard (last played in Chapel Hill on 1/2/2000) and have never played Wagner. Carolina has never played Howard in the NCAA Tournament. UNC played Howard in 1922 in Atlanta in the Southern Conference Tournament.
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]]>By Corey Pronman, Sean Gentille and Eric Duhatschek
Carolina Hurricanes get: Forward Jake Guentzel, defenseman Ty Smith.
Pittsburgh Penguins get: Conditional 2024 first-round draft pick, conditional 2024 fifth-round draft pick, forwards Michael Bunting, Ville Koivunen, Vasily Ponomarev, Cruz Lucius.
Corey Pronman: Jake Guentzel joins a strong Carolina team, and they hope he’s a piece that can put them over the top. He is a player who can make so much happen with the puck due to his high-end hands and hockey sense. He is a strong skater who competes well, and despite not being that big, he competes hard and can create at the net. He fits in well stylistically with how Carolina likes to play. They paid a big price for him even though he isn’t a premium position type, and there will be a question about exactly how productive he will be in a different environment where he is the go-to guy.
Ty Smith is a mobile defenseman who thinks the game at a very high level. He’s shown legit offense at various levels, but he’s a smaller defender who doesn’t defend that well.
Bunting is a player who Penguins GM Kyle Dubas is highly familiar with after drafting him in the OHL as well as signing him in Toronto. He is a highly skilled and intelligent player who can create a lot of offense. He competes hard and creates well around the net. In some ways, he has some stylistic similarities to Guentzel, with the main difference being that Bunting is a so-so skater. He’s a quality player signed to a reasonable contract as well.
The prospects Pittsburgh acquired from Carolina follow a trend: skilled forwards with good hockey sense, but lacking high-end athletic traits. I wouldn’t call any of them true premium pro prospects.
Cruz Lucius is a skilled and creative winger who has been a top forward on a strong University of Wisconsin team this season. He has legit playmaking skills at the college level, but his average size and so-so skating leads to questions about how well he will translate to the pros. He has a chance to play games but he will need to prove his game works against men.
Ville Koivunen also is a winger with a ton of skill and vision who can run a pro power play. He’s been highly productive as a 20-year-old versus men because of his skill, but also because he can create in the interior parts of the offensive zone. Like Lucius, he is also isn’t a great skater and he will need to prove at higher levels that his game will translate.
Vasily Ponomarev has looked good against AHL players and had a decent showing in a brief NHL showing this season. He works hard and has excellent puck skills. But he is a smaller center who skates fine but isn’t a blazer. He has a chance to be a bottom-six forward if he hits.
It’s hard to get a premium piece in a rental deal like this; it typically ends up being a lot of quantity versus quality. It’s interesting how much the player types rhymed in this deal. It was a lot of skilled forwards exchanging hands, albeit of different degrees. Pittsburgh doesn’t leave this deal positioned substantially better for the future, though, unless one of these mid-tier prospects or the second round pick hits in a big way. It’s highly possible that Bunting ends up being the best part of their return.
Hurricanes grade: B+
Penguins grade: B-
Sean Gentille: At some point in my seven years of watching Jake Guentzel play — it could’ve been during his 84-point season in 2021-22, but who knows, really — I began to think he was underrated.
Two seasons shortened by COVID-19 and a shoulder injury had seemed to obscure the fact that he’d turned into a reliable 40-goal scorer, based on pace. Was Sidney Crosby responsible for some of that? Sure, but Guentzel, despite a lack of any truly elite physical tool, thought the game at a level that seemed rare. Personally, I wasn’t quite sure I’d ever seen it. Not from a winger, at least.
So, I was almost relieved to be lightly scolded by a general manager over the summer. We had Guentzel lower than we should’ve, the executive said, in our NHL Tiers Project, and it was time to lobby.
“If the point of hockey is to win, (Guentzel has) got to go up,” the GM said. “He’s so, so good. He does everything right. He gets pucks on the wall. He makes little defensive plays. He makes offensive plays. He’s not an elite athlete, maybe, but his brain is elite in an all-around sense.”
The end result was the best winger Sidney Crosby will ever play with, an enormous coup for the Hurricanes and a trade that could tilt the balance of power in the Eastern Conference, if not in the league. Guentzel is that good. He’s going to fit in with the Hurricanes that well. And Carolina needed a player like him — for his brain, yeah, but also his elite point-production — that badly. He’ll help on the power play, too; Pittsburgh’s issues there had little to do with him. It’s the all-in move that the Hurricanes roster has deserved for years. No player on the market is better at turning puck possession into points. What’s Carolina’s biggest issue? You guessed it.
For the Penguins, the return feels light. Bunting is a top-nine forward with pros (his ability to produce with an elite center, as he did in Toronto) and cons (among them some ugly defensive numbers in Carolina). He’ll add something for the two years remaining on his contract. I’m not going to pretend to know anything about three decent-but-not-great forward prospects, but I’ll say this: Pittsburgh’s prospect pool was shallow and short. There was no quality, outside the very the top, and there certainly wasn’t quantity.
Kyle Dubas, if nothing else, fixed half of the problem. And Guentzel, for all his gifts, is a pending UFA who is currently out with an injury. Expecting a blue-chipper, a roster player and a first-round pick would’ve been foolish. There’s middle ground between that, though, and trading a dollar for a quarter, three dimes and a piece of gum, and it feels like Pittsburgh came close to the latter.
Hurricanes grade: A
Penguins grade: C-
Jake Guentzel likely will be well worth the return for Carolina. (James Guillory / USA Today)
Eric Duhatschek: Late afternoon to early evening to even later in the evening on Jake Guentzel watch felt a little like participating in a game show, in which the host annoyingly keeps the contestants dangling for hours and hours before finally revealing the prize winner.
OK, we knew the winner early on — it was the Carolina Hurricanes. But until you knew what the Hurricanes surrendered to get the best winger on the trade board, you didn’t really know how to react, especially if you’re a Pittsburgh fan. Was it enough? A little underwhelming? A lot underwhelming? Could it ever have been enough?
In the end, it felt thin on the Pittsburgh side, which made it a clear sweep on every front for Carolina. But let’s start with the idea of Penguins GM Kyle Dubas orchestrating a bidding war for his prized asset, because everybody loved Guentzel – and why wouldn’t they? He’s 29, a pure sniper with a fabulous playoff pedigree, and someone who could lift anyone from Stanley Cup wannabe to legit contender.
It’s also why negotiations dragged on before finally going Carolina’s way. Operationally, the Hurricanes ultimately went against everything the organization had stood for since Tom Dundon took over as owner — and gave up reasonable assets to add a player as a rental. In the past, Carolina resisted the urge to load up at the deadline and ultimately discovered that didn’t work. Once they got to the playoffs, and really needed a difference-maker who could tilt those games, they didn’t have anyone to turn to.
Guentzel, they hope, can be that guy.
That’s a lot to ask, but then again, Guentzel’s playoff past suggests he could fit the bill. Guentzel broke into the NHL in the middle of the 2016-17 NHL season and scored almost a point a game in 40 regular-season games. From there, he gained even greater notoriety for the 13 goals he produced in 25 playoff games, as the Penguins won the Stanley Cup. And Guentzel was even better in playoff year 2, with a staggering 21 points in 12 games. Those 58 points in 58 career playoff games? That counts for general managers at this time of the year.
The only caveat with Guentzel’s resume to this point is that you can get a lot accomplished in the NHL when Sidney Crosby is getting you the puck – or even is just out there on the ice with you a lot. That’s because Crosby commands a lot of attention from the opposition, which in turn makes it easier to find the seams in the defensive coverage if you’re fortunate enough to be riding shotgun with him.
Guentzel’s greatest strength is his ability to find the soft spots in the offensive zone and then finish around the net. His excellent eye-to-hand coordination means a pass doesn’t necessarily have to be picture-perfect for him to get it in the net.
The problem with Carolina is, once you get past Sebastian Aho, the quality of centers falls off quickly. Currently among Hurricanes forwards, only Aho is on pace to score 30 goals. He’s at 24. No one else has more than 19. Balance is great, but balance sometimes only takes you so far. And so far, it hasn’t taken Carolina to a Stanley Cup Final in the Rod Brind’Amour era.
If Brind’Amour chooses to play Aho with Guentzel, can the chemistry he had with Crosby be duplicated — and quickly? Maybe. Probably. But if Guentzel slides in beside the other centers on the roster — Jack Drury, or Jordan Staal or Jesperi Kotkaniemi — well, that’s not the same, is it?
Guentzel’s hockey sense makes you think though, he’ll find a way to make it work — wherever he slots in. He’s a quick study. Guentzel was in the final year of a contract that pays him $6 million per season and he had a 12-team modified no-trade clause. Not every 5-foot-10 forward is necessarily prized at this time of year, because the physical play usually gets tougher in the playoffs. But his size hasn’t hampered Guentzel in playoffs past — and there’s no reason to suspect it will be going forward.
He’s been out since Feb. 14, recovering from an upper-body injury, but has been skating, so conditioning shouldn’t be an issue. If he’s back by mid-March, that should be enough time for him to get the rust off, get his timing up to speed and then familiarize himself with whichever center they settle on to play with him.
On the other side of the equation, the fact that Pittsburgh took back Michael Bunting from Carolina was hardly a surprise. Bunting’s history with Dubas is well-established — and goes back to their Sault Ste. Marie days. Bunting joined the Hurricanes as a free agent last summer, signing a three-year contract for a modest AAV of $4.5 million. So essentially, he was a free player for them. Bunting was a good player, riding shotgun with Auston Matthews in Toronto, so he should find a home with either Crosby or Evgeni Malkin. Still, with Guentzel coming in, Bunting became expendable.
The rest of the package depends on how you like the fact that the first-round pick is conditional, as is the fifth-rounder, and that the Hurricanes made the trade and didn’t part with Alexander Nikishin, Bradley Nadeau or Scott Murrow, who were 1-2-3 on Scott Wheeler’s list of top Carolina prospects.
Instead, in Ponomaryov, Koivunen and Lucius, they got Carolina’s sixth-, seventh- and ninth-ranked prospects. All might eventually play. Will any reach Guentzel’s heights? Probably not.
In truth, it feels like a true steal.
Carolina paid only a reasonable price to acquire a player whose upside is great. Maybe even championship great. Pittsburgh got quantity over quality. That rarely ever ends well.
Hurricanes grade: A
Penguins grade: C
(Photo of Jake Guentzel: Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images)
]]>South Korea’s food giant Daesang Corp. has retracted its bid to acquire a controlling stake in China’s leading food additives maker Heilongjiang Chengfu Food Group Co. amid a slowdown in the amino acid product market.
Daesang said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it is revising its announced plan in 2021 to acquire a 32.87% stake in Chegfu Food for 26.5 billion won ($20.1 million) to expand its presence in China’s lysine market.
Under a contract the two companies signed in August 2021, Daesang had the right to raise its stake in the Chinese lysine manufacturer to as high as 51% for management control within 42 months of completing the payment of 26.5 billion won.
However, Daesang said on Thursday it now plans to acquire only 20% of Chengfu Food for 8.84 billion won by Sept. 7.
In Thursday’s filing with Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, Daesang also revised the purpose of its stake purchase to “use of the Chinese factory as an amino acid supply base through a minority stake investment” from its earlier statement of “expansion of the amino acid business by acquiring a production base in China.”
Daesang is Korea’s largest food and beverage company
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Daesang said in the filing that it deleted the clause concerning its rights to acquire additional stakes in Chengfu Food ahead of others.
“We had to make changes to our deal given the sluggishness of the lysine business in China. Through our minority stake investment, however, we will continue cooperating with Chengfu Food in functional amino acid products such as L-arginine for feed and L-tryptophan,” said a Daesang official.
Lysine is an essential amino acid added to animal feed for pigs, chickens and other livestock growth.
Arginine and tryptophan are amino acids that help humans and animals build protein in their bodies.
China is the world’s largest pork-consuming country, meaning it is also one of the industry’s top lysine producers and importers.
With the slowdown of the Chinese economy, however, the average price of lysine fell from 2,453 won per kilogram at the end of 2022 to 2,007 won at the end of September 2023.
A Daesang Life Science researcher
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Daesang, the producer of globally renowned kimchi products under its Jongga brand, saw its operating profit fall 11.6% to 123.7 billion won in 2023 from the previous year while its sales increased a mere 0.6% to 4.11 trillion won amid a food industry downturn.
The company, which produces lysine in Korea, saw its Gunsan plant operating rates fall to 78.6% last year from 82.1% a year earlier. Its food additives business swung to losses last year.
CJ CheilJedang Corp., Korea’s top lysine manufacturer, considerably slashed its lysine production from its amino acid product factory in China due to weak demand.
Industry officials said Daesang’s decision to cut its investment in Chengfu Food will negatively affect its goal to expand its bio and non-food businesses.
Daesang’s Jongga kimchi has been the market leader since 1988
Daesang is Korea’s first lysine producer, entering the business in 1973. However, the company sold the lysine business to Germany’s BASF for $600 million during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
BASF later sold the business to Paik Kwang Industrial Co., a Korean chemical and biotech company. Paik Kwang sold the lysine business to Daesang for 120 billion won in 2015.
When Daesang transferred its lysine technology to China’s Chengfu Food in 2018, it also signed a strategic business alliance with the Chinese company for a global expansion.
At the time, the two companies agreed to expand their annual lysine production to 700,000 tons from 500,000 tons with a combined annual lysine sales goal of 2 trillion won by 2022.
Write to Hyeong-Ju Oh at ohj@hankyung.com
In-Soo Nam edited this article.
Intruders broke into a major port terminal in Haiti Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency.
The Haitian government decreed the state of emergency would be extended to April 3 in the country’s West Region and the capital Port-au-Prince. A curfew has been extended to March 10.
It comes as Port-au-Prince’s Caribbean Port Services (CPS) terminal, a major player in Haiti’s food import supply chain, was broken into around 8 a.m., two security sources told CNN. The intruders headed to the terminal’s gated warehouse area that houses many containers, the sources said.
The source said the unrest at the port continues.
Video of the port on Thursday showed hundreds of people on the streets around the facility and what appeared to be dozens of people breaking into the gated warehouse. CPS did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment.
Exclusive satellite imagery from Airbus seen by CNN showed people massing outside of the area and crowds moving in through an opening to the street.
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A satellite image shows the aftermath of the port breach in Haiti.
One Airbus satellite image shows a significant amount of material littering the area of the container port terminal. Another image, taken Wednesday, shows a Haitian National Police MRAP – mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle – on a major roadway.
A security source told CNN that the MRAP was positioned there to prevent G9 gang coalition leader Jimmy Cherizier from expanding attacks and particularly from moving toward the airport road.
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A gang blockade can be seen along a major street.
Elsewhere in Port-au-Prince, satellite images show blockades – some constructed by local residents and others by gangs – along major streets, closing off entire neighborhoods.
Port-au-Prince has been gripped by a wave of highly coordinated gang attacks on law enforcement and state institutions in what gang leader Cherizier has described as an attempt to overthrow Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government.
Armed groups have burned down police stations and released thousands of inmates from two prisons, and Cherizier has warned of “a civil war that will end in genocide” if the prime minister does not step down, Reuters reported Tuesday.
The chaos has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes in the past few days, adding to the more than 300,000 already displaced by gang violence.
It is also affecting the distribution of essential supplies by aid organizations. The World Food Programme suspended its maritime transport services in Port-au-Prince from distributing aid across Haiti due to the instability.
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A law enforcement officer at a police station set on fire by armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 5, 2024.
Two dozen trucks of aid, filled with food, medical supplies, and equipment, are stuck at the port in Port-au-Prince, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a Thursday statement.
Maritime routes are the only way to transport aid, especially food and medical supplies for humanitarian and development organizations, from Port-au-Prince to the rest of the country, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General and OCHA.
Haiti’s healthcare system is “near collapse,” and many health centers have been forced to reduce their operations due to violence and lack of personnel and medicine, Dujarric said.
Only one public hospital remains operational in Port-au-Prince’s metropolitan area, according to an official at the country’s Civil Protection, and emergency services are severely hampered.
Hôpital Universitaire la Paix has received nearly 70 patients with gunshot wounds since the weekend and several medical centers in the country have been burned down in the past day, the official said.
Doctors in Haiti are desperate for help amid a lack of oxygen and a shortage of water.
“There is no oxygen available, no water neither to service the hospitals because of the shutdown of the pumps to provide water to people,” Ronald Laroche, a doctor who runs a network of private hospitals told CNN. “Most hospitals have closed their doors in the heart of the capital.”
Laroche runs a network of more than 20 medical centers throughout Haiti, two of which have been destroyed by gangs, he said. “They (gangs) turned them into their general quarters. Seven of our medical centers had to close their doors as well to prevent our employees from being kidnapped.”
Haiti’s Civil Protection told CNN that they’ve been “unable” to gather information on civilian injuries and deaths since this latest wave of violence.
The US has been urging Prime Minister Henry to clear the way for a political transition in Haiti, which Haitian officials say could be structured with the initial appointment of a three-member transitional council that would select an interim president to lead the country.
The unelected leader came to power in 2021 with the backing of the United States, Canada and other key allies, following the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise. He promised to hold elections in 2023, but they never transpired, with Henry’s administration citing the country’s insecurity as a major obstacle.
Henry has had difficulty returning to the country this week. His plane was diverted to the US territory of Puerto Rico after the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, refused to let it land.
When the violence broke out last Friday, Henry was in Kenya to sign an agreement for a Kenyan-led multinational mission to restore security in the Caribbean nation.
Nearby nations have been securing their borders following the outbreak of violence. A maritime blockade was established in the southeastern Bahamas amid fears of mass migration from Haiti, Commodore Raymond King of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), said at a press conference on Thursday.
King said officials are particularly concerned about the jailbreaks, fearing the prison escapees will try to flee Haiti by boat.
While security has deteriorated in recent months, Haiti has for years suffered chronic violence, political crisis and drought, leaving some 5.5 million Haitians – about half the population – in need of humanitarian assistance.
More than 40% of deaths in the impoverished neighborhood of Cité Soleil in the Haitian capital have been caused by violence, according to a survey conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that studied the period between July 25 and August 24, 2023. MSF said the mortality rate is comparable to those seen during exceptionally violent periods in Syria and Myanmar.
]]>One childhood memory, from the family table in Mumbai, still plays on a loop in my mind: “Don’t waste your food,” my mother would admonish daily. “Too many starving children everywhere,” my father would chime in.
Decades later, now living in New York City, I still can’t toss those leftovers. At least not like some of my friends do, with cool nonchalance, or like restaurants and shops regularly do when they’ve prepared too much.
So, I decided to try Too Good To Go, one of several apps that connect eaters with unsold restaurant food. It claims to have 155,000 businesses, like restaurants and markets, that offer surplus meals, often discounted, to about 85 million users worldwide.
The goal is to save money, anxiety and some greenhouse gases. Worldwide, discarded food accounts for 8 to 10 percent of planet-warming emissions. That’s because rotting food produces heat-trapping methane gas.
Here’s what I got during my weeklong experiment, all around Manhattan, trying to keep some of those meals out of the bin.
• Two one-quart containers of soup: Chicken and rice and a creamy tomato
• Potato chips
• One focaccia sandwich with mozzarella, tomato and sautéed mushrooms
• One croissant
Total spent: $11
Most meals on the app are sold as “surprise bags,” usually at the end of the day, and you often have no idea what you’ll get. That makes the experience something like gambling. And it can be strangely addictive like gambling. For me, at least.
This first day’s haul came from Remedy Diner in the morning and Rent Money Lounge in the afternoon, both on the Lower East Side.
• A croissant
• A blueberry muffin
• A slice of gluten-free banana bread
• Two six-packs of frozen Chinese buns: One with sour cabbage and tofu, the other plain cabbage
• One block of spiced dry tofu
• One bag of frozen, vegan tuna made from non-GMO soybeans
• A tuna salad wrap sandwich
• Six ham and cheese finger sandwiches
• A big slice of chocolate cake and six cannoli pastries
Total spent: $17
On this day, I made three stops: A cafe chain called Bluestone Lane, Lily’s Vegan Pantry in Chinatown and Gourmet Garage in the West Village.
It was a huge load of food for that much money. The vegan snacks from Lily’s, like the buns and tuna, were a deliciously pleasant surprise. The Gourmet Garage bag, on the other hand, left me underwhelmed. How about some fresh produce, guys? Still, I made out like a bandit.
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The government should not cut taxes in the upcoming Budget, unless it can spell out how it will afford them, a leading think tank has warned.
The chancellor has hinted he would like to lower taxes in what could be the last Budget before a general election.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the case for tax cuts was “weak”.
The government said it would not comment on whether further cuts to tax would be “affordable in the Budget”.
But both Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have made no secret of wanting to reduce the taxation burden on the general public. Last month Chancellor Hunt hinted that he was looking at trimming public spending as a way to deliver tax cuts.
However, the IFS said the chancellor should not go ahead with them, without providing specific details of where the axe would fall.
Any tax cuts “should wait” until the chancellor was able to do a detailed spending review, the think tank said.
“We don’t think we should be implementing certain tax cuts now, essentially that are paid for by uncertain spending cuts that might never be delivered,” IFS deputy director Carl Emmerson said.
The IFS said taxes in the UK were heading to record-high levels when measured against the size of the overall economy. However, government debt was also high and rising, and “barely on course” to be falling in five years’ time – one of the government’s self-imposed rules.
Moreover, even this “unhappy outlook” for the public finances was based on spending cuts and tax rises, including a rise in fuel duties and changes to business rates that were “unlikely to be realised” the IFS said.
“There is therefore only a weak economic case for another sizeable net tax cut in the forthcoming Budget,” the IFS wrote in its report published on Tuesday, ahead of the Budget on 6 March.
The IFS said if Mr Hunt did want to go ahead with tax cuts, he should look at reforming stamp duty on purchasing properties or shares, rather than reducing income tax or a further cut to National Insurance rates, which were reduced in January.
Mr Emmerson conceded that tax cuts can help to boost growth in the economy, but said: “That doesn’t mean the tax cuts will pay for themselves.
“There’s lots of problems in our tax system – we need genuine tax reform – and if we want growth-friendly tax cuts we should be looking at stamp duty on purchases of properties and stamp duty on purchases of shares,” he told the BBC’s Today programme.
“They’re very damaging taxes and cutting them would be better for growth than, for example, cutting the main rate of national insurance.”
A report in The Times suggests that the chancellor will opt for a 1% cut in employee National Insurance, at an annual cost of £4.5bn, as well as keeping fuel duty frozen.
It also claims that the Treasury will tax vapes, specifically the nicotine-based liquid used in the devices.
But, in order to encourage adult smokers to switch to e-cigarettes, Mr Hunt would at the same time increase taxes on tobacco. That would be on top of a 2% rise in tobacco duty announced in last November’s Autumn Statement.
The budgets for the NHS, schools, defence and overseas aid are ringfenced, however the IFS said unprotected areas such as justice and local government would see bigger squeezes as a result.
Local councils are already struggling with their own debts after years of shrinking budgets. Several have effectively gone bust, including Birmingham City Council, Nottingham, Thurrock and Woking.
The IFS said its calculations suggested that in order to keep real-terms spending per person at current levels for those unprotected services alongside “plausible” settlements for the NHS, childcare and other commitments, the chancellor would need to find a further £25bn.
The suggestion of tax cuts has drawn criticism from other quarters. Last month the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) described the government’s “pencilled-in” post-election spending plans as a “work of fiction”.
Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also advised the UK against further tax cuts, in its latest assessment of the world economy.
But there is extra political pressure on the decisions the chancellor will make next month. This Budget could be his last chance to announce big policy changes before a general election which must be held by January next year.
The government is set to borrow £113bn this year, £11bn less than was forecast in November, the IFS calculated, but still twice what it was borrowing prior to the pandemic.
The IFS warned that any extra “headroom” in the Budget, was in part the result of a falling bill for interest payments on government debt, an element which remained “very volatile”.
In response to the IFS report the Treasury said it was normal for governments to outline broad spending plans and more detailed departmental budgets would be set in the usual way at the next Spending Review.
A Treasury spokesperson said: “We are on track to meet our fiscal rules, and total departmental spending will be £85bn higher after inflation by 2028-29 than at the start of this Parliament, including record funding for the NHS.”
“Our responsible action with the public finances meant we could cut taxes for working people and businesses in the Autumn Statement,” they said.
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