Caracas, Nov 11 (EFE).- Eight men, including five Colombians, have been murdered in two Venezuelan towns bordering Colombia for reasons not yet known, the Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, Luis Eladio Perez has said. The killings apparently occurred Sunday. Five of the victims were identified as Colombians, while the other three were in the process of identification, Perez told Efe on Monday, ...

Buenos Aires, Nov 11 (EFE).- Argentine organizations that defend sexual diversity introduced Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies a bill to provide economic compensation for transsexuals and transvestites who were jailed or were victims of institutional violence because of their gender identity.The proposed law would compensate with a monthly pension of between 6,000 and 7,000 pesos ($705 and $823) those ...

Rome, Nov 11 (EFE).- Pope Francis has convened a seven-member panel of bishops and cardinals with the aim of speeding up the appeals process for priests convicted of sexual abuse or other serious offenses, the Vatican said in a statement. The decision stems from the need to ensure greater expediency when considering appeals, the statement said, and added that the ...

Havana, Nov 11 (EFE).- Cuban state telecoms company Etecsa said Tuesday it is relaxing its service restrictions and will allow ordinary citizens to obtain up to three wireless phone lines, state-run media reported. Individuals on the Communist-ruled island, where mobile telephony use has grown quickly since President Raul Castro’s government lifted a ban on personal cellphone ownership in 2008, had ...

By Cynthia de Benito Bogota, Nov 11 (EFE).- A bill to legalize medicinal marijuana set to be taken up Tuesday by Colombia’s Senate could be the start of a new approach to the drug problem, the son of a presidential hopeful slain by the cartels 25 years ago said in an interview with Efe. Sen. Juan Manuel Galan is the ...

The Belize High Court has lifted the two-month-long freezing of assets of six Belizean offshore companies and six individuals that had stemmed from an indictment in the United States Federal Court for alleged fraud and tax evasion. Belize’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) had secured a High Court approval to freeze the assets on September 23. The estimated US$1 million assets ...

The larger opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says it will re-open any agreement that the incumbent administration makes with local or foreign investors. APNU Shadow Finance Minister, Carl Greenidge says these may include broadcast licenses, gold mining licenses, land grants and agreements with international and local businesses. Chairman of the Private Sector Commission, Ramesh Persaud tells Caribbean News ...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) , Jose Miguel Insulza on Tuesday hoped that President Donald Ramotar would soon revoke the suspension of Guyana’s Parliament. Insulza says he hopes that parliamentary debate can resume in the current Parliament in the shortest possible time. The President prorogued Parliament on Monday to stave off a no-confidence motion in ...

Guyana’s President, Donald Ramotar on Monday suspend the Parliament, dashing the opposition’s hopes of passing a no-confidence motion in his administration and paving the way for fresh elections in 90 days. The President’s decision came six days after he had warned that he would have either suspend Parliament or dissolve it and make way for fresh elections if the combined ...

President Donald Ramotar on Monday kept to his much anticipated promise and prorogued the Parliament but the 65-seat National Assembly could very well still meet later in the afternoon because the Speaker Raphael Trotman has not received a copy of the Official Gazette of the proclamation. Trotman told Caribbean News Desk that he was not ruling out going ahead with ...