WESTERN BUREAU:
FOUR CUBANS who were rescued at sea on Wednesday by fishermen from Westmoreland, were released from the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital at noon yesterday.
The three men and a woman had been admitted to the hospital suffering from dehydration.
The four: Vladimir Nunez, 33; German Mendoza, 36, both fishermen; Cirilo Berta, 43, and Indilmis Sotomayr, 27, housewife, all of Santa Cruz, Cuba had been at sea for six days.
The Westmoreland police told The Gleaner yesterday that the Cubans were being housed at the Savanna-la-Mar police station.
The four were travelling in a dinghy and were spotted some 15 miles south of the Pedro Banks, by four Jamaican fishermen who were travelling in the "Silver Dollar", their 40-foot fibreglass boat.
Mr. Everton Taylor, the boat's captain, and his crew, all from Whitehouse, Westmoreland, gave the Cubans food and water at sea and radioed Mr. Leighton Buchanan, owner of the "Silver Dollar", who then contacted the White House police. The police arranged with Dr. Mappala Raghu and Det. Cons. Vincent Brown of the Little London CIB, to meet the Cubans when they landed.
