News

Roseau, Dec 8 (EFE).- Dominicans go to the polls Monday to elect a new Parliament with the ruling Dominica Labor Party facing a formidable challenge from its main rival, the United Workers Party.The UWP, fighting its first election under the new leadership of Lennox Linton, is urging voters to oust the DLP administration of Roosevelt Skerrit, which it has accused ...

San Francisco, Dec 8 (EFE).- Ralph Baer, the engineer popularly known as the “father of video games,” died at home in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, on the weekend, his family said. He was 92.Baer thought up the idea of designing a “box” that would allow Americans to play games on their televisions in 1966 while he was waiting ...

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) is proposing the building of a transportation system with Cuba to maximize trade across the region. The idea was placed on the table of the one-day summit of Cuban President Raoul Castro and his Caricom counterparts. The two sides are examining, among other issues how to make the 14-year old Caricom-Cuba Trade agreement more effective. ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday announced that it was ready to “lead” a broad pro-democracy coalition including A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to remove the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) from government, but President Donald Ramotar expressed confidence of regaining a parliamentary majority. AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan made the announcement in an address to his party’s delegates’ ...

Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar on Saturday ditched local and international calls to lift the suspension of Parliament and instead opted to call early elections in the New Year, quite possibly before the April 30 deadline for the passage of a National Budget. Addressing a news briefing at State House, his official residence, the Guyanese leader said he opted to decide ...

A top al-Qaida operative, of Guyanese parentage, was killed by Pakistani  soldiers Saturday. He was indicted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement in a plot to bomb New York’s subway system, the military said in a statement. The Associated Press reported that the death of Adnan Shukrijumah is the latest blow to the terror organization still reeling from the ...

The proposed formula by Guyana’s Private Sector Commission (PSC) to break the political deadlock caused by the almost one-month old suspension of Parliament appears set to flop because one of the opposition parties Friday remained adamant that there would be no talks with government. The Alliance For Change (AFC), whose no-confidence motion the government has been dodging to avoid going ...

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 cases of 326,279 of the 438,421 people removed from the ...

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 “inescapable humanitarian reasons.”Media reports said Friday the Guantanamo prisoners would ...

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 deputy spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, Marie Harf, made ...