off

Judicial Council will renew seven judges of the Court

The Council of the Judiciary (CJ) will renew seven judges of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym) next July. This is because of the regulations approval for the selection of judges, since last month. This was determined by the Organic Code of the Judiciary...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Adjustment in funds cause critics from Majors

Last Saturday, President Rafael Correa announced that the government will not continue funding competences assigned to Autonomous Decentralized Governments.(GAD for its Spanish acronym). These declarations generated reactions from different Mayors, who criticize the measure...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Terrorist attack in Pakistan airport leaves 28 dead

On Monday the authorities announced the end of the attack to the Karachi International Airport, the largest in Pakistan, after a 12-hour Taliban assault that left at least 28 people dead, ten of them Taliban members. This attack, which ended this morning with the death of the...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Correa plans to renegotiate the use of 4G technology with telephone companies

Rafael Correa said on Saturday that the grant of the 4G broadband will be renegotiated with the mobile phone companies of the country. “We will renegotiate the 4G broadband and we will look after the interests of the country”, Correa said during his Weekly Address to...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Chevron was sued in the U.S.

On Thursday in a court in the capital of Vermont, Montpelier, Attorney General William Sorrell, sued two dozen U.S. companies, including Chevron Corp for polluting groundwater with a gasoline additive. According to Sorrel, the refineries promoted, distributed and marketed...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Jennifer Lopez will not sing at the opening ceremony of the World Cup Brazil 2014

A few days before the World Cup Brazil 2014 starts, FIFA, the event organizer, said that Puerto Rican singer Jennifer Lopez will not participate in the opening ceremony at the new Arena Corinthians stadium in the city of Sao Paulo, as originally planned. The official song of this...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Galo Lara is arrested by authorities in Panama

The State Attorney General, Galo Chiriboga, confirmed this morning on his Twitter account, the arrest of former Assemblyman Galo Lara by units of the National Police of Panama in the province of Veraguas, at the request of Ecuador’s justice, according to Jose Nelson Brandao,...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
off

Santos and Zuluaga closed election campaign in Colombia

Last Sunday the Colombian candidate-president Juan Manuel Santos and his rival Oscar Ivan Zuluaga disputed the last votes in the closure of the campaign for the presidential elections to be held next Sunday. Both culminated in Tunja, Boyacá department capital, a major...
Posted On 09 Jun 2014
, By
12