Washington, Oct 30 (EFE).- The World Bank announced Thursday that it will provide an additional $100 million to battle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and to facilitate the deployment of foreign health professionals in the worst-affected countries. Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone account for the bulk of the 4,922 deaths blamed on the Ebola epidemic that began in March. ...

Trinidad and Tobago authorities have decided that Carnival 2015 will go ahead, despite concerns in some quarters about the deadly Ebola Virus being imported to the twin-island nation during festivities. Announcing that Carnival will go ahead, the Chairman of the National Ebola Prevention Information and Response Team,  Vice Chief of Defence Staff, Brigadier General Anthony Phillips Spencer says the risk-level ...

Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman on Wednesday said Guyana has plunged into a constitutional crisis because the Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has refused to convene Parliament on the basis that only the government can instruct when that should be done. Isaacs has said that his decision was based on consultations with other Clerks in a ...

In the Wednesday edition of Caribbean Newsdesk, President Donald Ramotar says a tape in which Attorney General, Anil Nandlall was heard talking about the vulnerability of Kaieteur News to being attacked by armed persons was not edited. The opposition Working People’s Alliance (WPA) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have called for Nandlall’s removal. Ramotar, however, says remarks by ...

San Juan, Oct 29 (EFE).- The West Indies cricket team’s recent abandonment of the India tour over apparent salary cuts is threatening the future of the game in the Caribbean region, where it enjoys great acceptance.Suruj Ragoonath, chief executive officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board, or TTCB, told Efe Wednesday that the players’ decision was disappointing and could ...

Geneva, Oct 29 (EFE).- The World Health Organization, or WHO, confirmed on Wednesday that 13,703 people have been infected with the Ebola virus since the epidemic began in March.Of that number, 13,676 of the cases were reported from three West African countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry, where international efforts are focused to control the epidemic.In a country-by-country breakdown, ...

Havana, Oct 29 (EFE).- Four people were killed and 28 others injured when a bus collided with a truck on a highway in eastern Cuba, state media reported Wednesday.The accident occurred Tuesday night on the central highway in Camaguey, a province located about 550 kilometers (341 miles) east of Havana), the AIN news agency said.Four men died in the crash, ...

Santiago, Dominican Republic, Oct 29 (EFE).- One person died and at least seven were arrested during protests held Wednesday in communities in the northern and northeastern Dominican Republic to demand social projects, police said.The fatality was identified as Apolinar Diaz, 36, a customs inspector who was hit by a bullet as he was going to work in the Esperanza free-trade ...

Miami, Oct 29 (EFE).- The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 33 migrants Wednesday from the sea near Boca Raton, north of Miami, after their boat sank, officials told Efe.“We recovered the 33 migrants some nine kilometers (six miles) east of Boca Raton” in Palm Beach County, a Coast Guard spokesman said, adding that all of the boat people, whose nationality has ...

San Juan, Oct 28 (EFE).- The U.S. Virgin Islands announced that Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and Hess Corp have reached a tentative agreement to sell the now-idle Hovensa refinery to Atlantic Basin Refining.Located on the south shore of Saint Croix, Hovensa has the capacity to process 500,000 barrels per day, but PDVSA and Hess shut it down in 2012 ...