Jamaica signs oil exploration agreement with Irish firm
San Juan, Nov 12 (EFE).- Jamaica's government has granted permission to Ireland's Tullow Oil to begin offshore oil exploration under the ...
Latin America has world’s highest rate of female researchers
Montevideo, Nov 12 (EFE).- Forty-five percent of the scientific researchers in Latin America are women, the highest for any region ...
Caribbean News Desk Radio prog: Trinidad and Tobago sets up “elite” group to tackle school gangs… No-confidence motions in St Kitts and Nevis, Guyana
Trinidad and Tobago has set up an elite multi-agency unit to combat gang violence in and around schools, in the ...
New York murder trial, which included witness with ties to Guyanese death squad, goes to federal jury
Crime scene tape runs across the entrance to a court yard across from 160 Park Hill Avenue in this 1996 ...
Roman Catholic Church calls for revocation of parliamentary suspension
Bishop Francis Alleyne (RC Diocese photo)The Roman Catholic Church in Guyana on Tuesday broke its more than two-decade long silence ...
4 Pct. of LatAm, Caribbean people live outside their homelands
Santiago, Nov 11 (EFE).- More than 28 million Latin American and Caribbean people - 4 percent of the region's population ...
Eight killed in two localities near Colombia-Venezuela border
Caracas, Nov 11 (EFE).- Eight men, including five Colombians, have been murdered in two Venezuelan towns bordering Colombia for reasons ...
Bill introduced in Argentine Congress would compensate jailed transsexuals
Buenos Aires, Nov 11 (EFE).- Argentine organizations that defend sexual diversity introduced Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies a bill ...
Pope Francis creates body to speed up hearing priests’ appeals
Pope FrancisRome, Nov 11 (EFE).- Pope Francis has convened a seven-member panel of bishops and cardinals with the aim of ...
Cubans to be allowed more than 1 wireless phone line
Havana, Nov 11 (EFE).- Cuban state telecoms company Etecsa said Tuesday it is relaxing its service restrictions and will allow ...
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