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Havana, Nov 24 (EFE).- Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo has arrived on his first official visit toCubawhere he will discuss bilateral relations and regional and international issues with his hosts. Garcia-Margallo arrived on Sunday and is to begin his official agenda on Monday on the first visit toCubaby a Spanish foreign minister in four years. Most of the agenda ...

San Juan, Nov 24 (EFE).- The deputy director-general of the International Organization for Migration visited the Bahamas for talks with top officials on the nation’s controversial new immigration law, the government said Monday. The IOM’s Laura Thompson met with the minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Frederick Mitchell, as a follow-up to the memorandum of understanding signed by the two ...

San Juan, Nov 24 (EFE).- Jamaica’s Meteorological Service has urged island residents to “remain vigilant” and conserve water due to a shortage of rainfall in some regions of the country. “Southern parishes, in particular, are expected to continue to receive below normal rainfall and might plunge into drought conditions and some might remain into early next year when the dry ...

The St. Kitts and Nevis opposition has been weighing in on Canada’s decision to abolish visa-free entry of nationals of that twin-island federation. This follows concerns about St Kitts and Nevis’ Economic Citizenship Programme that has allowed Syrians and Iranians to enter Canada, although they possibly would not have been granted visas undr normal circumstances. Although St Kitts and Nevis ...

The body of a Maintenance Engineer at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was Sunday afternoon removed from a reservoir near the airport, shortly after he allegedly sexually molested a female. He has been identified as  Christopher Andrew Jacobs, 26, of Hauraruni Village, Linden Soesdyke Highway. A senior police officer said that investigations so far revealed that he allegedly had ...

(DOMINICA NEWS ONLINE)- A local Roman Catholic priest in Dominica has been “defrocked” by Rome almost two years after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against him. Msgr Reginald LaFleur, who has been a Roman Catholic priest for over 30 years, was issued the decree by Bishop of Roseau Gabriel Malzaire on November 6, 2014. The 60-year-old priest was put on ...

San Juan, Nov 21 (EFE).- Bill Cosby performed at a charity event in the Bahamas amid a media storm in the United States sparked by sexual assault accusations against the 77-year-old comedian and actor. Cosby offered a comedy show at the Atlantis resort in Nassau, with the proceeds going to the local chapter of women’s service organization The Links, Tribune242 newspaper said ...

By Natalia Bonilla San Juan, Nov 20 (EFE).- Protestantism has become the majority religion for Haitian immigrants in the Bahamas, where they make up 16 percent of the population, according to a forthcoming book by U.S. anthropologist Bertin Louis. “My Soul is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas,” due to be launched Nov. 28, explores the link between ...

San Juan, Nov 21 (EFE).- Puerto Rico has accumulated more than 18,000 suspected cases of chikungunya and five deaths linked to that virus, the U.S. commonwealth’s Department of Health said, citing figures for the week ended Oct. 28. Of those cases, 3,385 have been reconfirmed at laboratories of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while in only 31 of them ...

International Desk, Nov 21 (EFE).- Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, has reached Geneva for treatment at the Geneva University Hospital, Swiss public broadcaster RTS reported Friday. The 43-year-old Cuban medic, specialist in internal medicine, was a part of the ‘Henry Reeve’ International Contingent of Doctors and traveled to the African country in the beginning of October. ...