Counterfeit booze made with methanol is a problem for tourists south of the border. Maybe Fiji, too.
That doesn’t explain medical staff dying.
A Colorado couple got sick last year at the same resort where the tourists recently died. The Colorado couple booked a flight home immediately and their doctor diagnosed them with organophosphate poisoning (likely insecticide). Then there was that Delaware family, 3 of 4 whom were left paralyzed and brain damaged by pesticide exposure in the Virgin Islands.
The tourists in the DR had all had a drink from the mini bar. Very suspicious, in my opinion. A Colorado couple is also saying they got violently ill from what they learned later after tests was a pesticide sprayed on plants at the same resort (the Grand Bahia Principe La Romana). I can’t imagine anyone actually going to the DR much less to this specific resort after the news reports.