Martin Beaumont, 55, who was general manager of a private club in the Caribbean island’s capital St George’s, was declared dead at the scene. Mr Beaumont had been out snorkelling in the sea with a colleague who was being treated in hospital following the accident, which happened on Sunday. Read article
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Europapress.es reported that the Cuban government confirmed Monday that the blackout affecting 60 percent of the country, without clarifying the reasons that caused the power outage in nine provinces, the largest of blackouts give almost a decade. “There was an interruption in a transmission line of 220,000 volts between (provinces) Ciego de Avila and Santa […]
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Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba’s government declared Tuesday that health workers had eradicated a cholera outbreak that infected 417 people and killed three, according to a statement from the country’s Health Ministry. In early July, Cuba said the sometimes fatal water-borne illness had returned to the eastern part of the island. It was the first […]
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A tourist on vacation in Puerto Rico was killed after she fell into a river as she took photos near a waterfall at a tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico. According to GA Daily News, Kenah Huggins, from the Bronx, in New York, was on vacation in the area when the tragedy happened on Sunday. Read […]
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Travellers to Jamaica are being warned of the potentially devastating effects of Tropical Storm Isaac, which threatens to drench the island nation. A series of red alerts have been issued by the National Hurricane Center(NHC) and local governments in the Caribbean, predicting Isaac will evolve into a Category 1 or Category 2 Hurricane. Read article
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A Trinidadian serial rapist, 35, who is believed to have raped and robbed a British tourist, 54, on August 12, while she was on a two-month vacation in Trinidad, was arrested on Friday (August 24) in Cunupia. According to a news report in The Trinidad Guardian, the suspect, who is well-known to police, struck up […]
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Suspected cases of cholera continue to increase at hospitals in the northern Dominican province of Santiago, where at least 550 people have been treated in the past nine days for acute diarrhea. Residents of the city of Tamboril, where the greatest number of cases have occurred, are complaining that the supposedly potable water they have […]
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A Chinese businessman was killed five stab wounds last night in the kitchen of Pica Pollo Asia, in San Pedro de Macoris, police said. Mine Victim’s Chi Wu, 33, found his wife wounded by Xiao Ping Zhang at 10:30 pm, in the aforementioned restaurant, where he worked as a cook. Read Article
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A dengue outbreak in eastern Cuba has forced the authorities to make a vocational school in a hospital, according to reports from the area. In turn, a city already suffering from a cholera epidemic now facing an increase in the number of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. Medical staff in the city of Camagüey said the vocational school […]
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Tourist Killed due to electrocution. An autopsy conducted on the body of 20-year-old British national Hannah Defoe has revealed that the vacationing Englishwoman’s death in St Lucia was due to drowning secondary to electrocution. The freak accident that claimed the life of England footballer Jermain Defoe’s cousin has attracted international attention. Read Article
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