Today the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper published an article about our trip this week to Jamaica entitled "Know Your Rights!" The article is below:
"CRUISE-SHIP workers are being urged to empower themselves by obtaining knowledge about their rights to benefits from their employers.
Several cruise-ship workers turned up on Wednesday at the Hibiscus Lodge
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s interview with disgraced Captain Schettino airs tonight in a program entitled the "Captain’s Tale" produced by the CBC’s Fifth Estate.
The Costa captain states that he doesn’t understand why the disaster is being treated like a crime. He blames others for striking the rocks, explains that he delayed the evacuation
Some of the critics of Cruise Law News say that I unnecessarily include sensationalist information in my blog. My response is that it’s hard to report on developments in the world of cruising and not sound sensational when cruise ships are on fire, sinking and being chased by pirates.
But today, I read a few
I’m not always right.
Despite the ego that I have grown to compete in the dog-eat-dog world of cruise line litigation against Fortune 200 cruise corporations in Miami Florida, every day I realize that I, too, make errors of perception, of judgment, and of acknowledgment.
Last year, I wrote an article about what I thought
Early this Monday morning I reported on an outbreak of meningitis aboard the MSC Orchestra cruise ship. Four MSC crew members were hospitalized yesterday in Livorno, Italy once the cruise ship reached this Italian port. Newspapers in Italy, France, Germany and Spain mentioned the disease outbreak.
But no one in the U.S. mentioned the story.
Cruise List broke a story today about a power outage which occurred on Holland America Line’s Statendam cruise ship last Thursday.
The Cruise List blog explains that last Thursday evening his proprietary application which searches for cruise information on Twitter picked up a tweet about a “fuel pump explosion” that caused a “two hour Power Outage
This morning two news articles caught my eye. The first one from an Australian newspaper – "Cruising Boom: 20 Million Take to the Sea" – and the second one from one of my favorite newspapers, the LA Times – "Cruise Industry Rebounding from Ship Accident, Woes in Europe."
These headlines seem
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CruiseMates recently ran an article by its editor Paul Motter entitled "Most Ridiculous Cruise Ship Lawsuits." One of the lawsuits was filed by a 50 year old lady passenger aboard a P&O cruise ship who attended a talent show dressed in a leopard skin dress who sang a Tina Turner song River Deep Mountain
The Costa Concordia in January disaster set off a seemingly endless avalanche of stories on cable news this year about ship fires, sinkings and other cruise disasters, as well as a steady stream of articles and videos about sexual assaults during cruises, drunken brawling passengers, and the disappearance of women at sea.
I’m just one of
Today the cruise Industry trade organization, Cruise Line International Association ("CLIA"), sent out a press release announcing that its CEO, Christine Duffy, now has a Twitter account: @CLIACEO
I could not help but think, oh boy is this going to be fun.
Ms. Duffy began her tenure at the helm of CLIA in January
Last week I mentioned a compensation claim filed in the U.K. at London’s High Court following the death of a doctor, Michael Bedford, age 70, who lost his life while cruising as a passenger aboard the MV Athena. Dr. Bedford fell down a flight of stairs on the cruise ship as it sailed to North America
This year has been a public relations mess for the cruise industry.
2012 started off with the January Costa Concordia disaster, followed by a series of articles and TV specials about cruise ship engine failures, fires, sexual assaults and controversy over the cruise industry’s manipulation of the new cruise safety law.
Just the other week
Today, Newsweek magazine and its online edition – The Daily Beast – weighs in on the 6 month anniversary of the Costa Concordia disaster with a far reaching article looking at all aspects of today’s cruise industry.
Cheap cruise fares? Certainly. But at what cost? Long working hours, low pay, and exploitative working conditions. An
Friday the 13th was the 6 month anniversary of the January the 13th Costa Concordia disaster.
This weekend, I read through several dozen articles which looked back over the last 6 months since the Costa cruise ship killed 32 people and terrorized thousands. I watched the recent specials on NBC and CNN about dangers inherent
The big news coming our of Italy as we approach the 6 month anniversary of the Costa Concordia disaster is an interview the infamous Francesco Schettino gave to an Italian television channel.
Now that an Italian court has released Captain Schettino from house release and lifted the gag order imposed on him in January, we
Yesterday I blogged about a near collision which allegedly occurred between Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas and a small Italian fishing boat, the Angela II, which is based in Civitavecchia.
You can read my article: Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas Nearly Runs Over Italian Fishing Boat. The article was based on
Every once in a while a story comes along which blows the lid off of the status quo.
Such a story broke yesterday when Salon Magazine published a blockbuster article "Erasing Cruise Ship Crime." Written by Matthew Harwood, the Salon article tackles the ugly spectacle of our nation’s FBI sabotaging the efforts of
