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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct 22 (EFE).-A U.S. federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by several homosexual couples claiming their marriages contracted in other states of the United States should be recognized in Puerto Rico. Judge Juan Perez Gimenez dismissed the lawsuit which was initially filed by activist Ada Conde and her spouse, Ivonne Alvarez, and was later joined ...

San Juan, Oct 21 (EFE).- Several Caribbean islands have recently barred entry by people coming from West African countries affected by Ebola as a measure of “economic survival,” an expert told Efe on Tuesday. Tourism is “the backbone of the Caribbean economies,” Ivan Ogando Lora, director of the Dominican Republic’s Latin American College of Social Sciences, pointed out during a visit to Puerto Rico. ...

Jamaica’s National Security Minister, Peter Bunting, has defended the country’s right to deny entry to Trinidadian Yasin Abu Bakr and  sought to justify the cost of  his deportation. Nearly 36 thousand US dollars was spent on a hiring a plane. The Jamaat al Muslimeen leader arrived in the country late last week and claimed to be visiting his daughter who ...

Fearing the deadly Ebola virus, workers at Trinidad and Tobago’s state-owned oil company, Petrotrin, were up to late Tuesday resisting efforts to berth an oil tanker that arrived there. The tanker, Overseas Yellowstone, arrived at Point-a-Pierre arrived last Thursday, but since then has been unable to offload its consignment of imported crude oil to operate its refinery. You can download ...

The St. Lucia-based Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation (CARILEC) is dispatching teams from power companies across the region to assist hurricane-hit Anguilla and Bermuda. Dutch Sint Maarten residents are also grappling with limited water or no electricity supply in parts of that territory. In all three territories, residents and authorities said life was gradually returning to normal- the major problem ...

An Electrical Engineer at Edward B. Beharry Group of Companies was early Sunday morning gunned down outside his Prashad Nagar home moments after exiting a car. Neighbours, relatives and police sources said Abdool Salim,24, was shot several times as he ran away from his attackers who were on cycles. The incident occurred on Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown about 4 ...

A Guyanese Muslim, who was on his way to Jamaica to participate in Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Monday, said he was ordered off a flight in Antigua because authorities in Jamaica have refused him permission to land. Gerald Perreira, who is the Chairman of the little known Black Consciousness Movement Guyana (BCMG), hinted that ...

Miami, Oct 18 (EFE).- Hurricane Gonzalo has begun to weaken rapidly after causing severe flooding in coastal areas of Bermuda and leaving that affluent British overseas territory largely without power.Gonzalo, which struck the mid-Atlantic island Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane and still has maximum sustained winds of 100 mph with higher gusts, is quickly moving away from Bermuda, the Miami-based National ...

(BBC ).-Hurricane Gonzalo has hit Bermuda with winds of about 175km/h (110mph). The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned of high winds and “life-threatening storm surge” the after the eye of the hurricane passed the British Atlantic territory. Eighty per cent of the island chain has lost power because of the hurricane, Reuters quotes Bermuda Electric Light Company as ...

Caracas,(EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday his government can withstand a continued drop in oil prices and recalled that the South American country has requested an urgent OPEC meeting to address the issue. “A revolutionary government with economic power like the one I preside over, we have plans, I have plans, to get through any situation, no matter how ...