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Cuba, sixty Colombian tourists stranded at airport in Havana

A group of 60 Colombians were stranded for 30 hours in Havana because of failure to schedule a Cubana Airlines flight that should come out this Saturday at 5 am from the Jose Marti Airport in Havana. One of the passengers is Juan Pablo Calvo, news director of Radio Nacional de Colombia, who also was threatened by airport officials. Read Article

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Margarita Island, French tourists assaulted on yacht

French sailing assault and injure one of its crew in Venezuela. Five armed men hijacked a French yacht moored in the tourist island of Margarita, in northeastern Venezuela and injured one of his two crewmen, said on Wednesday told AFP the commander of a water rescue organization. “We got the call for help by a […]

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Puerto Rico, shark attack

When planning a surf trip to Puerto Rico the hazards that come to mind are sea urchins, shallow reefs, the annoying little “pichu-pichu”, or “sea lice”, the local Sticky fingers, and local attitudes… Sharks, well you don’t pay ‘em any mind because “there’s never been a shark attack on a surfer”. The general understanding is […]

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Cartagena, Colombia, three tourists dead in two weeks

On Friday August 5, at about 8 pm, managers of a hotel in Cartagena Center reported him to police the death of an American tourist, registered as Blake Wesley Jones, 34, in the bathroom one of its rooms. Three days later, on Monday August 8, was a Norwegian who died by jumping from the third […]

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Jamaica, four British and Canadian tourists die in road crash

Three members of a British family and their friend have been killed in a fatal road crash in Jamaica.Three others were injured when the group’s minibus collided head-on with a pick-up truck, according to police. Read Article

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Antigua, killers of Welsh tourists could face hanging

ANTIGUA’S Attorney General has refused to rule out the death penalty for the killers of Welsh honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany. Kaniel “Sample Dan” Martin, 23, and accomplice Avie Howell, 20, could face the hangman’s noose after being found guilty of the killings on Wednesday. Read Article

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Dominican Republic, Dead American Tourist found in Boca Chica

A North American tourist, later identified as Larry Keith Zimmerman, was found dead in his hotel room in the tourist area of Boca Chica according to Dominicanshoy.com. Zimmerman was last seen Monday the 18th, until employees found him in his room two days later. An investigation has launched to determine whether the incident was a […]

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Grenada, British tourist feared drowned

Police on the Caribbean holiday isle of Grenada are searching for the body of a British tourist who is feared to have drowned. Stephen Sassao, 32, of London, had gone swimming with a group of other tourists at Bathway Beach in the northern St Patrick parish, said police. Witnesses said a big wave crashed onto […]

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U.S. couple killed in Dominican Republic

Dominican authorities reported on Thursday were returned to their families the bodies of the pair of Hialeah brutally murdered in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Novoa Milagros Caridad and her husband, Augustine Novoa, were shot in the chest and abdomen at the hands of two men who entered his summer home in the tourist area […]

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