(BERNAMA.com) — The Health Ministers of Haiti and the Dominican Republic met on Monday to discuss epidemiological control strategies, mainly related to the cholera epidemic affecting both nations.Objectives of the meeting include the identification of public health-related priority issues, plans to mobilise technical and human resources and the drafting of a road map to put cholera under control, said an official communique. Read article
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Nathan Clarke, 30, mysteriously vanished on the evening of February 25 while out for a few drinks with his fiancée and friends. The teaching assistant, originally from Cheltenham, was last seen walking down towards the sea from a beach bar on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman in his swimming shorts. Read article
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The past weekend was particularly violent. Three persons were murdered from north to west but another brutal incident at high seas has the attention of the police department. A massive criminal investigation is underway over the rape of a sixty-one year old tourist and the stabbing of two others. There has been no official confirmation, […]
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with winter officially beginning later today, it is high season for vacations in the caribbean . but be warned, the region’s high rate of crime is spilling over into the tourist areas on many islands. michelle kosinski is in miami. reporter: you just think paradise, right? but would you believe that as a region, the […]
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There has been another attack on tourists, according to a visiting couple from Britain. A tourist has been telling local radio station Q95, that his wife and himself were attacked by an unknown assailant, as they returned from dinner and were heading back to a guest house at Goodwill where they have been for the […]
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A BRITISH mum of two was found dead on a beach hours after arriving in the Caribbean for her father’s wedding. Nicola Raybone went missing after being briefly left alone by friends at their hotel bar while they went to order food. Read Article
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The consul of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Dominican Republic, Jose Luis Rangel, reported yesterday that the Venezuelan consul in Port-au-Prince was the victim of a robbery in the country on Monday night.Rangel confirmed to Diario Libre that Marcos Villegas was assaulted on the Sanchez Highway in the area near Yaguate in the […]
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Diseases transmitted by insects or animals Arthropod-borne diseases, especially dengue fever, are common in the Bahamas. The country is not affected by malaria. Diseases transmitted by food, water or environment In the Bahamas, gastric diseases are common among tourists who are not accustomed to local food or who do not take precautions. Due to the […]
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A man died yesterday morning after falling from the eighth floor of the Ambassador Hotel in the County, at about 11:10 am. The deceased was identified as John H. Donald, 53, and police categorized the incident as a suicide, though the research itself had not yet completed. It was reported that in room 825, which […]
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A judge in Aruba has ruled authorities can continue to detain a U.S. man while they investigate the presumed death of his travel companion. The examining magistrate extended the detention of Gary V. Giordano at the request of prosecutors after a closed hearing Wednesday at the Dutch Caribbean island’s prison. Read Article
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