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Sao Paulo, Nov 5 (EFE).- Bus drivers protesting against the torching of their vehicles during street demonstrations left commuters stranded for several hours Wednesday here in Brazil’s largest city. Drivers halted work between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and used their vehicles to blockade Sao Paulo’s 29 bus stations, snarling traffic. The buses carry around 1 million passengers a day, ...

San Juan, Nov 5 (EFE).- Several Caribbean islands will share a 20-million-euro (US$25-million) grant from the European Union to strengthen their national disaster-management programs. The funding will be disbursed over the next five years, the Antigua and Barbuda Government said Wednesday in a statement. It is expected the EU aid will be used to strengthen critical infrastructure to make it ...

Dominicans will go to the polls on December 8, 2014. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt made the announcement Wednesday afternoon in address to the nation. He said that he has advised the President to dissolve the Parliament immediately. Nomination Day will be November 19. Skerrit’s Dominica Labour Party (DLP) will be coming up against the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) led by ...

Havana, Nov 4 (EFE).-Cuba is seeking to attract US$8.7 billion in foreign investment with a list of 246 already approved projects in sectors including energy, tourism, agriculture and industry.Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca opened the 32 Havana business fair with a presentation of the “portfolio of opportunities for foreign investment,” another step by the Communist-ruled island to attract foreign capital as ...

A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, made available online on Tuesday by the scientific journal Addiction, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men.    While the risk of injury is similar for both men and women up to three ‘standard’ drinks (containing 16 ml or 12.8 ...

A flood caused by torrential rains in northern Dominican Republic since Saturday has killed one person and forced the evacuation of hundreds of persons. Most affected is an agricultural area region named Cibao. Officials identified the dead man as Haitian, Nelton Pierre who was intoxicated. He drowned when he jumped into to the Arroyo Blanco Abajo River that overflowed its ...

Police there are continuing to probe the killing of a prominent Washington DC defence lawyer at his holiday home. The body of 55-year old Van Teasley was found bound, gagged and strangled to death in his apartment at the weekend. Officials said police were alerted by Teasley’s friend after no one answered his door bell or responded to phone calls. ...

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 4 (EFE).- Brazil’s Federal Police, in collaboration with security forces of Honduras, Colombia and the United States, dismantled Tuesday an international drug-trafficking and money-laundering ring operating out of Brazil, Venezuela and Honduras, officials said.The organization was based in Sinop, a municipality in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where most of the 24 arrest warrants ...

Guyanese are almost certain to go to the polls before year-end, now that the opposition has maintained that it would be going ahead with its no-confidence motion in the House when it convenes on Monday. Just three hours after President Donald Ramotar announced in an address to the nation that he would be dissolving or proroguing parliament if the opposition ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad , Oct 4 (CND).- Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) on Tuesday agreed to seek international funding and Cuban assistance for a Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) to stave off the deadly Ebola virus. After a more than three hour emergency summit in the capital of this oil-rich Caribbean nation, the regional leaders said the Caribbean Public Health ...