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EXCLUSIVE: A look into improving the sex trade in the Caribbean

30 January 2004 Press Release Tourism News

Exclusive: By Marvin A. Hokstam.A tourism official from the Dominican Republic has called on Caribbean Governments to form a block against the portraying of the region as a place where prostitution is encouraged. Hans Dannenberg, Executive Director of the Puerto Plata Hotels Association mentioned the Netherlands Antilles explicitly in a list of countries where women from his country are lured to, to work in the sex industry.