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The Alliance For Change (AFC) says that it will not approve Guyana’s 2015 National Budget even if it contains hefty salary increases for government employees. AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan told a news conference that his party, which holds seven seats in the National Assembly, will instead re-table the no-confidence motion should President Donald Ramotar end the suspension of Parliament. Mr. ...

Santiago, Nov 12 (EFE).- An aging population will characterize the Latin American and Caribbean region in the 21st century, a phenomenon attributable to lower fertility rates and longer life expectancy, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a study released here Wednesday.Life expectancy in the region has climbed from 55.7 years in the 1950-1955 period, which ...

Brasilia, Nov 12 (EFE).- Four Brazilian cabinet officials on Wednesday announced their resignations to ease the way for President Dilma Rousseff to restructure her administration after her reelection last October.On Tuesday, Culture Minister Marta Suplicy had resigned and on Wednesday Labor Minister Manoel Dias; Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Minister Mauro Borges; Strategic Affairs Minister Marcelo Neri and cabinet chief ...

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 ...

San Juan, Nov 12 (EFE).- Dominica’s government has signed an agreement with Range Developments for the construction of a luxury hotel on the Caribbean island, the first approved real-estate project under a program that offers citizenship to investors. The Cabrits Resort Kempinski Dominica will be a 101-room hotel on Douglas Bay, on the island nation’s north shore, Kempinski Hotels said in a press ...

Beijing, Nov 12 (EFE).- Chinese President Xi Jingping and his Peruvian counterpart, Ollanta Humala, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding to create a trilateral working group for bi-oceanic railway project between Peru and Brazil. This is one of the seven agreements reached between both countries during Humala’s official visit to China after attending Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Besides participating in railroad project, China ...

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) ...