Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:24 by GxMedia Montevideo, Nov 12 (EFE).- Forty-five percent of the scientific researchers in Latin America are women, the highest for any region of the world, the head of the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division of Unesco, Lidia Brito, said Wednesday.During a speech in Montevideo at the “Ecosystems of Innovation in Latin ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:17 by GxMedia San Juan, Nov 12 (EFE).- Dominica’s government has signed an agreement with Range Developments for the construction of a luxury hotel on the Caribbean island, the first approved real-estate project under a program that offers citizenship to investors. The Cabrits Resort Kempinski Dominica will be a 101-room hotel on Douglas Bay, on the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:11 by GxMedia Beijing, Nov 12 (EFE).- Chinese President Xi Jingping and his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding to create a trilateral working group for bi-oceanic railway project between Peru and Brazil. This is one of the seven agreements reached between both countries during Humala’s official visit to China after attending ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:03 by GxMedia San Juan, Nov 12 (EFE).- Jamaica’s government has granted permission to Ireland’s Tullow Oil to begin offshore oil exploration under the terms of an agreement whose value has not yet been disclosed. The agreement calls for the Irish oil company to carry out “low cost studies” in the Walton Basin and ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 0:59 by GxMedia Montevideo, Nov 12 (EFE).- Forty-five percent of the scientific researchers in Latin America are women, the highest for any region of the world, the head of the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division of Unesco, Lidia Brito, said Wednesday.During a speech in Montevideo at the “Ecosystems of Innovation in Latin ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 0:46 by GxMedia Trinidad and Tobago has set up an elite multi-agency unit to combat gang violence in and around schools, in the wake of the murder of student in a troubled community of that twin-island nation. Gang violence in schools is a growing problem in many schoos across the Caribbean. Power 102 ...