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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 ...

Miami, Nov 4 (EFE).- Netflix’s offer of pay-per-view video and movie streaming via Internet is a threat to the $27 billion-a-year cable and satellite television business in Latin America, according to industry executives and insiders gathered in Miami. What is at stake, Dataxis Latin American Vice President Ariel Barlaro told Efe, is who will dominate a regional market that currently ...

Guyana’s President, Donald Ramotar Tuesday night announced that general and regional elections would be held soon if the opposition refuses to deal with important national issues on the parliamentary agenda when the National Assembly resumes sittings on Monday and instead pushes ahead with its no-confidence motion. “I disclose these, my intentions, on the assumption that the post recess sittings of ...

In the wake of mounting pressure for Guyana’s Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandall to resign over remarks he purportedly made in a telephone conversation, he Tuesday denied being aware of a planned armed attack on the privately-owned Kaieteur News newspaper. “I wish to state clearly and unequivocally, that I am unaware of any planned violence or ...

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 3 (EFE).- One person was killed and 13 others wounded in a shootout early Monday inside a nightclub in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, officials said. The shootout started when members of rival gangs encountered each other during a funk event at the popular Stuttgart Danceteria club in Porto Alegre, ...