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  Mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot yesterday announced an international public tender for the dredging of the access canal (90 kilometers) of the Guayaquil Seaport and its private terminals. “This is to facilitate the tender and complementarity in all ports of Guayaquil...

  Everything indicates that the 94 kilometers of the cannal, from the sea buoy to the southern ports of Guayaquil, will be dredged a 9.75 meters deep at low tide. But in a second stage the dredging can be done up to 11 meters at low tide. High tide adds up two meters. All...

  The native digital media had no greater presence in Ecuador until 2012. Jose Rivera, in his study ‘Digital Media Map of Ecuador,’  could barely track just 34, mostly in Guayas and Pichincha. But the last record notices an increase. 49 media are listed in the...

    The Organic Code of Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation, better known as the Wits Code, waits for the second debate in the Assembly. Article 111 of the bill has raised concerns in some sectors dedicated to the creation of software in the country. In...

  Their visa request was denied. “We were told we do not comply with the conditions of humanitarian crisis,” told to daily ESPRESO Efrain Sanchez, new representative of the Cuban community in Ecuador. About 130 islanders camped on the street outside the embassy...

  Representatives of the National Federation of Cooperatives of Passenger Transport of Ecuador (Fenacotip) attended the Economic Development Commission of the Assembly to express their disagreement with the amendment to the Traffic Act that seeks to create a new mode of...

  Last Friday, former Assemblyman Clever Jimenez brough before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a complaint against President Rafael Correa. He is already back in the country to explain the contents of the document. He submitted more than 100 cases that,...

  President of the Assembly Gabriela Rivadeneira says that there is a legal loophole that prevents that the wage payment of her peer Esperanza Galvan is suspended, even though she has been imprisoned for more than a year ago and complies with a sentence for bribery.  ...

  The investigation of the Money Laundering Unit of the Attorney´s office confirms links between Spartan and Clearprocess and the so-called Panama Papers. The two Ecuadorean companies are identified by moving tons of gold apparently irregularly. That fact was corroborated by...

  The downward trend in real estate sales, which is felt since July 2015, has remained so far this year. Two factors have affected the construction sector since last year: the announcement of the Capital Gains and Inheritance bills, which were resumed this year, and the...