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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 ...

In The Netherlands… The  Amsterdam District Court has ordered Suriname Airways (SLM) to pay 7,800 Euros to twelve passengers for the delay of a flight two years ago. The SLM had invoked exceptional circumstances, but the court rejected it. The twelve passengers had tightened the process through the EU-claim organization. The airline had asked the district judge to stay the ...

The Clerk of Guyana’s National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs looks set to refuse an instruction by the Speaker, Raphael Trotman to re-convene the National Assembly next Thursday.  The House has not met since July 10 when government moved for an adjournment to a date to be fixed.   Eventually, the two-month parliamentary recess came and ended on October 10 with no idea ...

Miami, Oct 28 (EFE).- U.S. Coast Guard and Miami search and rescue teams continued Tuesday looking for two men at sea after 11 Cuban migrants where picked up a day earlier from a rickety boat in Biscayne Bay. The air and sea mission includes the Miami Fire Department and the Miami-Dade County Police Police Department, along with Coast Guard units. “We are still searching for two ...

San Juan, Oct 28 (EFE).- The government of Barbados plans to reduce its budget deficit to 6.6 percent of gross domestic product by March 2015, the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs said Tuesday.The government is moving ahead with the implementation of “its fiscal stabilization and growth program,” Christopher Sinckler said in a statement.“Following the explosion of our deficit at ...