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Nineteen people have died in Costa Rica from drinking tainted alcohol in the last couple of months, according to the Ministry of Health. Officials with the Ministry of Health confirmed that 14 men and five women ranging in age from 32 to 72 have died due to suspected methanol poisoning in the span of five weeks,…

Another person has died after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Khalid Adkins died on June 25, 2019, before he got a chance to catch a flight back to his hometown, Denver, Colorado. According to KDVR, Adkins was visiting the Carribean island over the weekend with his daughter Mia Adkins when he became ill after a…

TV mogul Steve Harvey is far from the only person spurning the Dominican Republic for more appealing locales to host his vacation getaway. As a result of the inexplicable spate of sudden deaths and violent illnesses reported at luxury resorts in the Dominican Republic, the island nation’s tourism industry has taken a catastrophic hit. According…

Another tragedy has struck an American family as a Louisiana woman returning from her honeymoon in the Dominican Republic has become the 10th tourist to die since 2018. Susan Simoneaux and her newlywed husband, Keith Williams, had just gotten back from their stay at a resort in Punta Canta to their hometown of Luling, Louisiana,…

Two large groups of vacationers from Oklahoma that took recent trips to the Dominican Republic became violently ill, according to Yahoo Lifestyle and Yahoo Entertainment. Yahoo Lifestyle reported that Deer High School graduates in Oklahoma, along with some of their parents, took their senior class trip on June 8. At least six of them became…

As David Ortiz continues to recover under heavy guard and sedation at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s ICU in Boston, the media has learned the identity of the man who allegedly hired the assassins to shoot Ortiz. CNN reports the Dominican National Police and prosecutors say the suspected mastermind behind the “complex” assassination plot is still…

As the Dominican Republic continues to reel from an inexplicable rash of deaths at its luxury resorts, the media has learned that a New Jersey man has become the ninth person to die suddenly and mysteriously there since June 2018. A hotel maid discovered the body of Joseph Allen, 55, on the floor by his…

Someone allegedly put out a contract to kill retired Major League Baseball legend David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic, according to law enforcement officials and multiple media reports. According to CNN, by Friday, June 14, 2019, police had arrested nine people — eight men and one woman — and charged them in a failed conspiracy…

The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Public Health reportedly has enlisted assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice in its multipronged investigation of several mysterious and sudden deaths at two of the island’s most popular vacation resorts. The Justice Department dispatched investigators from the FBI to the island to help officials conduct a series of tests…

It is getting harder by the day for the Dominican Republic government to continue to hold onto the “isolated deaths” explanation for the rash of tourists suddenly dying at their luxury resorts. A seventh body has been discovered in one of the Dominican Republic hotels, this one being John Corcoran, the brother of multimillionaire celebrity…

As the FBI investigates the mysterious deaths of several American tourists in the Dominican Republic, who reportedly arrived in seemingly good health only to turn up dead days later, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also landed to conduct tests. According to the Fox News and CNN, the CDC and other international…

The shooting of baseball legend David Ortiz shocked fans and former teammates of the Red Sox slugger. Ortiz was shot at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, June 9, 2019. Now more details are emerging regarding the motivation behind the attack as police have a suspect in…

About a month before the rash of deaths at one Dominican Republic resort, a California man reportedly died after sipping a drink from his room’s minibar at a different resort on the Caribbean island nation. According to Fox News, Robert B. Wallace, 67, died in April 2019 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in…

Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz was shot in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Sunday, June 9 in what authorities say was a botched robbery attempt. According to ESPN, the three-time Major League Baseball champion was enjoying retirement in his hometown when a man rode in on a motorcycle and ambushed Ortiz while he was…

The resort company where three Americans died within days of each other in May 2019, and where a Colorado couple claimed they were poisoned, is fighting back after their employees have allegedly received “threats” and “insults.” The Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts said in a statement obtained by ABC News they are “collaborating completely” with…

Just as the nation comes to grip with three Americans dying at the same Dominican Republic hotel within days of each other — and another couple announcing they were poisoned there but survived — we learn that a fourth American was found dead at another hotel owned by the same company last year. Philadelphia’s Yvette…

A Colorado couple said they were poisoned at the same vacation hotel in the Dominican Republic last year where three tourists died within five days of each other late last month. CNN reports that Kaylynn Knull, 29, and her boyfriend Tom Schwander, 33, told authorities that they became violently ill with what they believe were…

Alarm bells are going off after a second Black couple died under mysterious circumstances in the Dominican Republic in the last two months. According to NBC Washington, the bodies of Nathaniel Edward Holmes, 63, and his fiancee Cynthia Ann Day, 50, were found inside their rooms at the Baha Principe hotel in Playa Nueva Romana on…

A police manhunt for a missing New York couple who had been vacationing in the Dominican Republic may be over. Police say Orlando Moore, 43, and Portia Ravenelle, 32, were supposed to fly back to the United States on March 27, 2019, but never arrived for their flight. Dominican law enforcement officials have now revealed that…

2nd Largest Island in the Caribbean: Hispaniola My trip to the Dominican Republic and Haiti was something I had been looking forward to for some time as I arrived on the island Hispaniola, formerly Española, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago, now divided by these two republics in the Caribbean region. European nations competed for control of…