Local July 8, 2022 | 8:15 am

Dominicans top missing migrants list

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic registers the highest number of deceased migrants in the Caribbean during 2021, according to the Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In the annual report on the Americas region, it was revealed that 67 Dominicans lost their lives while traveling through dangerous maritime routes in fragile vessels in the Caribbean region.

The country is followed by Cuba (61), Haiti (10), Ecuador (5), Guyana (3), Bahamas (2), Jamaica (1) and four are listed as undetermined. In the document, there is also a record of the death of nine Dominican migrants in Central America.

Deaths in the region
In total there were in 2021, in the Caribbean region, 180 deaths and disappearances of migrants. During the year 2020, 163 were registered in the year 2019 there were 160.

 

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Ramon Garcia
July 8, 2022 10:11 am

Spending 5000 on an illegal trip to PR is a really bad investment.

My Name Is Not Important
July 8, 2022 11:36 pm
Reply to  Ramon Garcia

Chasing the American dream is a worst idea if you’re poverty-struken. You either die trying, reach there and live enough to suffer and become a burden of society, or choose neither of them and stay in their area where it has no jobs, no security, and become a burden of society.