Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:34 by GxMedia Santiago, Nov 12 (EFE).- An aging population will characterize the Latin American and Caribbean region in the 21st century, a phenomenon attributable to lower fertility rates and longer life expectancy, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a study released here Wednesday.Life expectancy in the region ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 November 2014, 1:30 by GxMedia Brasilia, Nov 12 (EFE).- Four Brazilian cabinet officials on Wednesday announced their resignations to ease the way for President Dilma Rousseff to restructure her administration after her reelection last October.On Tuesday, Culture Minister Marta Suplicy had resigned and on Wednesday Labor Minister Manoel Dias; Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Minister ...

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 ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 3:44 by GxMedia By John M. Annese in Staten Island Advance SILive.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.  — After a trial that included testimony from a killer with ties to a Guyanese death squad, a jury is now weighing the evidence against three brothers accused of killing a rival drug dealer outside the Park Hill Apartments in 1994. ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 3:24 by GxMedia The Roman Catholic Church in Guyana on Tuesday broke its more than two-decade long silence on the political environment here by announcing that it woud re-establish a pressure group and calling on President Donald Ramotar to revoke the suspension of Parliament. “I, therefore, call on all Guyanese and their leaders ...