(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett is expressing regret at the passing of an Argentinean tourist who died in St. Ann on Wednesday night in the aftermath of a suspected case of food poisoning, which also left several other visitors and Jamaicans hospitalised.
The deceased was a member of a group which was vacationing at a villa in St. Mary.
Preliminary investigations indicate that members of the group had purchased fish at a supermarket in the parish only hours earlier, but later fell ill after partaking in a meal of fish and potato salad they had prepared.
Members of the group were rushed to the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital where a male tourist was pronounced dead on arrival while ten other persons, including Jamaicans were admitted in critical condition.
