Boat Accidents Cuba

A federal appeals court Friday upheld an emergency restraining order that has stopped the Bush Administration from repatriating thousands of Haitians who have fled their impoverished land in sailboats. The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta also ruled that attorneys for the Haitians could interview the refugees, being held at sea on 15 Coast Guard cutters and at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A federal appeals court Friday upheld an emergency restraining order that has stopped the Bush Administration from repatriating thousands of Haitians who have fled their impoverished land in sailboats. The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta also ruled that attorneys for the Haitians could interview the refugees, being held at sea on 15 Coast Guard cutters and at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Twenty-three people drowned as a Haitian boat headed for the United States capsized off the coast of Cuba, Prensa Latina news agency reported in Havana. The Cuban agency said that the vessel was carrying 166 when it left Haiti but that many survived the wreck because of the fast response of police and frontier guard rescuers. There was no immediate word on the cause of the capsize. Each year, dozens of U.S.

Twenty-three Haitian refugees died and 119 others were missing and presumed dead after their sailboat capsized in strong winds and high seas off the eastern tip of Cuba, the official Cuban news agency reported Thursday. Prensa Latina said 60 people had survived the Tuesday night shipwreck and that Cuban rescuers were conducting an air, land and sea search, "although the missing are presumed dead."

Twenty-three Haitian refugees died and 119 others were missing and presumed dead after their sailboat capsized in strong winds and high seas off the eastern tip of Cuba, the official Cuban news agency reported Thursday. Prensa Latina said 60 people had survived the Tuesday night shipwreck and that Cuban rescuers were conducting an air, land and sea search, "although the missing are presumed dead."

Twenty-three people drowned as a Haitian boat headed for the United States capsized off the coast of Cuba, Prensa Latina news agency reported in Havana. The Cuban agency said that the vessel was carrying 166 when it left Haiti but that many survived the wreck because of the fast response of police and frontier guard rescuers. There was no immediate word on the cause of the capsize. Each year, dozens of U.S.