Authorities in the Dominican Republic have confirmed that an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Caribbean island to neighboring Puerto Rico overturned early Saturday morning killing at least 10 people. The small wooden boat carrying 60 people left the northeast town of Nagua before dawn Saturday morning. As of press time, 10 bodies (4 women [...]

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A 30-year-old British man on a seven-day cruise from Florida to Cozumel is said to have fallen overboard in the waters near Mexico early Friday afternoon. The man, who has not been identified, was seen falling over the railings of the Allure of the Seas by another passenger.  The incident was also captured on  CCTV. [...]

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Flamboyant reggae singer Elephant Man is accused of raping a woman at his home in Jamaica. The dancehall DJ, whose real name is Oniel Bryan, was taken into police custody on Monday after a 31-year-old woman told police that he raped her at his Hillcrest Avenue, St. Andrew home last month. The “Jook Girl” singer [...]

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Authorities in the Bahamas are investigating the death of a North Carolina man whose body was found on the lower deck of a Carnival cruise liner. It is believed that the 26-year-old unnamed man was intoxicated when he fell from the upper level of the ship’s atrium to the lobby level late Friday night when [...]

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Bahamian officials are searching for a 72-year-old Canadian man whose boat was discovered abandoned off the island of Grand Bahama. A spokesperson for the Royal Bahamas Police Force said the 27foot sailboat had been left sitting in the same spot for several days with no sign of owner, John William Batchelor, of Ontario. When police [...]

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