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Mayor Jaime Nebot, yesterday morning, ratified an intention that was published in July of the last year: to ask the Charity Board of Guayaquil (JBG) to stop charging the tax to public entertainment, in exchange that the Municipality delivers the value of that tribute.   To do so,...

Multinational companies signed agreements with the Ministry of industries in which they are committed to increase their exports from Ecuador, and to buy local products for their production, said yesterday the director of the Ecuadorian Institute for Standardisation (INEN)...

Ecuador’s capital is home to the first company dedicated to the production of handmade and custom-design candies, called “Rock Candy,” which promises to innovate the domestic candy market. The owner and chef, Pedro Cruz, revealed that the idea was born when his...

Last Tuesday, attorney Steven Donziger, representative of Ecuador in the U.S., appealed the verdict of Judge Lewis Kaplan, which indicated that the attorney would have engaged in fraud in order to win a $ 9,500 million trial over the pollution left by Chevron Corp in Ecuador....

The Organic Law draft of the Public Electricity Service came to the Assembly and will be analyzed since this week. The initiative came from the Vice Presidency of the Government. Among the various changes that the Economic Development Commission raises, there is the creation of...

Last Tuesday, President Rafael Correa inspected the rehabilitation of the railroad being built in Milagro, Guayas Province, and took the opportunity to get inside of one of the locomotives along with dozens of followers akin to his government. After the tour, Jorge Carrera,...

Last Tuesday organizations and leaders across the country attended a press conference held by the Amazonía Vive organization, which belongs to the Amazonian mayors in favor of oil extraction in Yasuní National Park. At the press conference several topics such as technical...

Manufacturers, distributors and toy importers, along with the Chamber of industries of Guayaquil,launched yesterday the fair Play Ecuador, which seeks that 70 local artisans and about 20 entrepreneurs dedicated to the manufacture of toys, expose their offer and become providers...

The Communication Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, said yesterday that the date for the second round of negotiations between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) to finalize an agreement for development is not yet defined. Through dealings, the entity seeks to define...

The agriculture, breeding, floriculture, fishing and construction sectors have new standards since past thursday 13, that regulate work schedules,the employees hiring and their affiliation to the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security. Workers in the fields of flowers will work...