Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:23 by GxMedia New York, Dec 5 (EFE).- Eighty-three percent of the more than 430,000 people deported from the United States in 2013 did not have a deportation hearing or face an immigration magistrate, the American Civil Liberties Union said. “Immigration officers acting as prosecutor, judge and deporter” used expedited procedures in the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:18 by GxMedia Montevideo, Dec 5 (EFE).- Uruguay’s Jose Mujica reaffirmed Friday in an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama the South American country’s willingness to accept six detainees from the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.Mujica, who met with Obama at the White House in May, said he extended the offer for ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:15 by GxMedia Washington, Dec 5 (EFE).- The United States said Friday that the next Summit of the Americas, to be held in April in Panama City, will still be “credible” even if Cuba attends and insisted it is focused on the issues to be addressed as opposed to which countries are present.The ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:10 by GxMedia San Juan, Dec 5 (EFE).- The Taiwan Embassy in St. Lucia donated 1,200 Christmas toys to the island’s poor children to enjoy the season.The government of St. Lucia said the gifts were presented at a brief ceremony at Prime Minister Kenny Anthony’s official residence by Taiwan’s ambassador, James Chang.The toys ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:05 by GxMedia San Juan, Dec 5 (EFE).- Labor unions in Trinidad and Tobago staged Friday a national march against corruption, gathering hundreds of workers and other citizens in the capital, Port-of-Spain.The event was organized mainly by the Joint Trade Union Movement and Oilfield Workers Trade Union, or OWTU, the Trinidad Express reported.OWTU ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 22:03 by GxMedia San Juan, Dec 5 (EFE).- Jamaican artists Ziggy Marley, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Sean Paul and Sly & Robbie, Spicy Chocolate were announced Friday as nominees for the Grammy award for best reggae album.The nominations demonstrate Jamaica’s supremacy in reggae, a style invented on the island in the 1960s.Ziggy Marley, son ...

Last Updated on Friday, 5 December 2014, 21:44 by GxMedia Jamaican legislators Friday afternoon passed legislation that will allow state funds to be used to fund the country’s political parties. The bill to amend Jamaica’s Representation of the People Act was passed in the Lower House of Parliament. It was then debated and taken through its stages in the Senate ...