The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, has updated his Facebook page, indicating that he has traveled to Miami to meet with cruise line officials. He posted:
"Este día ha sido muy productivo, después de una reunión con 2 empresas de Cruceros en Miami, donde definimos incrementar el número de turistas a Honduras."
Translated, he
Our article listing the top 10 most dangerous cruise destinations in the world hit a raw nerve in the Bahamas.
The Nassau Guardian published two articles quoting government leaders’s responses to making the list. The Guardian first published Bahamas’ Spot on Crime List Causes Skepticism, Concern." Later, the Guardian published "Official: Most Dangerous
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Numerous sources are reporting that former baseball All-Star shortstop and manager Jim Fregosi suffered a stroke during a Major League Baseball alumni cruise and was taken to a hospital in the Cayman Islands.
MLB.com reports that Mr. Fregosi, age 71, suffered the stroke while the cruise ship was sailing in the Caribbean.
MSC Cruises advertises
A local news station in Houston is reporting that for the first time, a cruise ship has sailed from its home port at the Bayport Cruise Terminal in Houston. Princess Cruises’ Caribbean Princess set sail earlier this week for a four day cruise to Progresso, Mexico.
The remarkable part of the story is that the
Carnival Cruise Lines is dropping the British Virgin Islands port of Tortola next year.
Carnival intended to send five cruise ships to Tortola through April 2015.
The port is overhauling its cruise ship dock, and passengers may be required to tender from the ship to shore, Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz said.
The Carnival
The Nassau Guardian contains several articles this week about the high homicide rate in the Bahamas.
11 Murders in 12 Days blasts the headlines today. All victims of hand gun violence. 80 murders in the Bahamas this year alone. A substantially higher homicide rate than anywhere in the U.S.
The newspaper articles refer to "crime
The headline today in the Nassau Guardian newspaper blasted “Elderly Woman Shot at Home” during a robbery. Another front page story involved an unrelated but even more deadly title “Men Charged with Murder.”
These headlines are hardly rare. Two weeks ago, a U.S. crew member was shot dead during a robbery in downtown
Last month we wrote an article about the crime epidemic in Nassau, Bahamas.
A newspaper in the Bahamas published an article "Cruise Ships Warn on Crime," explaining that cruise executives from Miami met with Bahamian officials about the increasing crime levels in Nassau which are no longer safe for passengers. We have written several
Yesterday a U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, published an article "How Safe is the Caribbean?" following the armed robbery of 55 Celebrity Cruises cruise ship passengers from the Eclipse who were on a cruise-sponsored excursion in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
The robbery was terrifying with Canadian cruisers reporting that they were afraid
Yesterday it was announced at the marketing debut of Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, that one of the ports of the new cruise ship would be Nassau in the Bahamas when it was launched in 2014. My first reaction was that Nassau was a dangerous location to host the new Royal Caribbean cruise
Cruise Critic reports that 55 cruise passengers and two crew members from the Celebrity Eclipse were robbed at gunpoint by three men on Friday, April 12 2013 while in St. Lucia.
Celebrity Cruises issued a statement indicating that passengers were visiting the Botanical Gardens in Soufriere at the time of the robbery and were on
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Newspapers in the U.K. are reporting on a crime in Barbados yesterday where a couple cruising aboard a P&O cruise ship were shot during a daylight robbery as they were walking back to the cruise ship.
The Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, and BBC News have reported on the violent incident.
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I have been interested in the port town of Falmouth in Jamaica for the past many years after cruise giant Royal Caribbean convinced Jamaica to invest well over $200,000,000 (U.S.) to accommodate its Oasis class cruise ships, The project involved the dredging of the port’s waters, the destruction of mangroves, the dislocation of its fishing
A newspaper in the Cayman Islands reports that Carnival is threatening to pull out of the Cayman Islands after a tender boat operator, Cayman Marine Services, made a tiny increase in the price for transporting passengers to and from cruise ships in George Town.
The newspaper states that Cayman Islands Marine Services operates 16 tenders in the
A newspaper in Antiqua reports today about an altercation which allegedly occurred between two cruise passengers & their child and police officers in a souvenir shop in Antigua.
In an article entitled “Cruise Passengers and Police Come to Fisticuffs,” the Antigua Obeserver states that a souvenir shop in the touristy Heritage Quay section
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We returned to Miami from Jamaica last night after a three day trip where we visited crew member clients in Montego Bay, Falmouth and Ocho Rios. The weather was fantastic and the Jamaican people were warm and friendly, as usual. It is always delightful to travel to Montego Bay, which is an easy one and
The AP published an article today regarding the plight of Falmouth. The world’s biggest cruise ships are sucking most of the money out of the Jamaican port and leaving little behind except crushed expectations of the local community.
“World’s Biggest Cruise Ships Drop Anchor in Caribbean, But Ship-to-Shore Feud Brews Over Cash” takes
Jamaica’s Gleaner newspaper reports that the average amount of money spent by a cruise ship passenger in Jamaica has dropped to just $71.
The hardest hit Jamaican port has been Falmouth where Royal Caribbean convinced the county of Jamaica to spend over $160,000,000 so far to develop the port (at great destruction to
