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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 ...

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 will be distributed to members of Parliament for disbursement to ...

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 leader Ancel Roget has previously said that his union disapproves ...

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 of legendary musician Bob Marley, was nominated for his album ...

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 but not without objections from both government and opposition senators. ...

The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the political impasse in Guyana, even as a group of civil society organisations called on President Donald Ramotar to lift the almost one-month old suspension of Parliament. The President prorogued the Parliament on November 10, the same day that the opposition had planned to debate and pass ...