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San Juan, Nov 12 (EFE).- Jamaica’s government has granted permission to Ireland’s Tullow Oil to begin offshore oil exploration under the terms of an agreement whose value has not yet been disclosed. The agreement calls for the Irish oil company to carry out “low cost studies” in the Walton Basin and Moran Basin areas that cover 32,065 sq. kilometers (12,380 sq. ...

Montevideo, Nov 12 (EFE).- Forty-five percent of the scientific researchers in Latin America are women, the highest for any region of the world, the head of the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division of Unesco, Lidia Brito, said Wednesday.During a speech in Montevideo at the “Ecosystems of Innovation in Latin America: policies, institutions and impact,” which is being held through ...

Trinidad and Tobago has set up an elite multi-agency unit to combat gang violence in and around schools, in the wake of the murder of student in a troubled community of that twin-island nation. Gang violence in schools is a growing problem in many schoos across the Caribbean. Power 102 FM reports that the Ministries of Education and National Security ...

By John M. Annese in Staten Island Advance SILive.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.  — After a trial that included testimony from a killer with ties to a Guyanese death squad, a jury is now weighing the evidence against three brothers accused of killing a rival drug dealer outside the Park Hill Apartments in 1994. The two-week trial against Brian (Brawl) Gill, 46, David (Plot) ...

The Roman Catholic Church in Guyana on Tuesday broke its more than two-decade long silence on the political environment here by announcing that it woud re-establish a pressure group and calling on President Donald Ramotar to revoke the suspension of Parliament. “I, therefore, call on all Guyanese and their leaders to ensure that we navigate these uncertain times peacefully, honestly ...

Santiago, Nov 11 (EFE).- More than 28 million Latin American and Caribbean people – 4 percent of the region’s population – live outside the lands where they were born, according to a report released Tuesday by a U.N. panel. Seventy percent of those migrants reside in the United States, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, or ECLAC, ...

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 ...