Alex Ritson

I am spending hours every day talking to current clients who have trips booked, groups that are coming soon, prospective clients, and having to answer these same questions that you're asking me right now and let people know it's safe.

The government prioritizes the tourist areas.

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Places that we have you stay have backup generators.

My team have gasoline in their cars.

The buses have gasoline.

You're going to have a great itinerary and a great experience.

But if you're going somewhere and it's a trip and it's a leisure experience, just a little bit of fear can cause some people to make other plans or put things off.

At the end of the day, if this fuel siege continues for too long, it's definitely unsustainable.

Something has to give.

The reports are that Cuba can, from their own internal sources, supply 40% of their normal needs.

And at some point, something certainly would have to give or it could end up being some kind of a humanitarian crisis.

David Lee talking to my colleague Andrew Peach.

Still to come in this podcast, the return to Nigeria of some of the Benin bronzes, artwork by indigenous people looted during colonial times.

They were looted in 1897, so towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign, in an infamous so-called punitive expedition and the pillaging of all the treasures within its palace, what today we call the Benin bronzes.

Is there a way to train your brain to reduce the risk of getting dementia?

Scientists in the US believe it could be possible.

They spent two decades tracking thousands of older adults and found that exercises designed to sharpen the brain's processing speed had a significant impact in reducing the likelihood of being diagnosed with the condition.

Professor Marilyn S. Albert from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore co-authored the study.

Professor Marilyn S. Albert, head of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centre at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.