Today the Royal Gazette newspaper in Bermuda is reporting on the beginning of a criminal trial in Bermuda where a 40 year old crew member is accused of raping a female crew member on a cruise ship flagged in the Bermuda.
The newspaper reports that the case involves a crew member who is accused of raping a
Newspapers in India are reporting that a young man working as a crew member on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship disappeared at sea.
"Disappearances" at sea have been a regular occurrence on Royal Caribbean cruise ships over the past several years.
The Times of India ("Did ‘Missing’ Ship Staffer End Life?") and the Hindustan Times ("Chef Commits
This week we reported on a cruise bust on a cruise ship in the Cayman Islands involving a group of crew members from Jamaica and St. Vincent. It sounds like the drug busts we reported on involving Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas and the Enchantment of the Seas.
There is no question that drug smuggling on cruise ships
Today, we received the following statement from Senor Frog’s in Nassau, about our articles "Cruising To The Bahamas – Is It Safe?" and "Cruise Passenger Beaten and Raped in Nassau – Are Royal Caribbean and Senor Frog’s to Blame?
"We, at Senor Frogs, are deeply saddened, concerned and disturbed by this news.
Senor
This past week, the news has been filled with stories of cruise lines canceling calls to ports around the world because of concerns for their passengers’ safety.
Carnival, Disney and Holland America Lines announced that they would no longer sail to Mazatlan because of violence in this Mexican city. Carnival called the decision a "precautionary measure," noting
Cruise Law News was featured today in Attorney at Law Magazine in an article by legal marketing expert Paula Black.
In her article "The Right Results," Paula writes:
"Jim Walker of Miami firm Walker & O’Neill P.A. runs the popular Cruise Law News, a blog focused solely on "breaking news and legal commentary regarding cruise ship passengers and crew
Cayman News Service reports that three crew members were arrested for possession of two kilos of cocaine. The cruise employees were from St. Vincent and Jamaica.
As is often the case, the local police did not identify the name of the cruise ship or cruise line.
The three cruise ships in port at the time of the arrest were Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas
A horrific crime occurred in Nassau involving a twenty-four year old Canadian woman cruising to the Bahamas.
"Jane Doe" (whose name is being withheld to protect her confidentiality) cruised aboard Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas from Miami, leaving February 21st. Jane Doe sailed with her father and friends. The cruise ship docked in Nassau on February 23rd.
While ashore the
Cruise Law News (CLN)’s readership exploded last month. In February, our followers read 100,000 pages of CLN which remains the 10th most popular law blog in the U.S. Here is what people are recently saying about Jim Walker and CLN:
"Top Maritime Lawyer" – ABA Journal.
"Top Cruise Lawyer" – USA Today.
"Prominent Private Practice Maritime
The Jamaica Observer is reporting conflicting stories about a large drug bust on a cruise ship in Montego Bay yesterday. The cruise ship had sailed from Columbia.
In one article, the newspaper reports that 50 pounds of cocaine valued at over one million dollars (U.S.) was seized yesterday from a cruise ship in Montego Bay Jamaica. 22
ABC Nightline has posted the video of its program last night regarding the sexual assault of a 14 year old girl on the Carnival Freedom cruise ship. Carnival crew member Hery Krispiyanto raped the child during a cruise in 2009.
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf
A reader of our blog, Evelyn, left us a link to a short video of Monika Markiewicz playing the violin aboard the Allure of the Seas cruise ship shortly before her death in Cozumel. The reader left the short message: "I shot a short video on her playing . . . she was so sweet."’
The death of a
Tonight, ABC’s Nightline will cover the story of a 14 year old child who was sexually assaulted by a Carnival crew member aboard the Freedom cruise ship.
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This is a story which we covered last May:
Carnival Cruise Ship Bartender Arrested On Charges Of Raping 14 Year Old Passenger
Hery Krispiyanto, age 30, from Klitren, Yogykarta
"Why don’t you write something positive for a change?" is the number one criticism I hear from readers of Cruise Law News. Few people contact a maritime lawyer when they experience a wonderful time on a vacation cruise. So it was my good luck to be contacted by a passenger who ended up, after a couple of tries
We are approaching the five year anniversary of the March 2006 Congressional hearings into the issue of crimes on cruise ships. Due to the efforts of the newly formed International Cruise Victims (ICV) organization, Congress convened a hearing in March 2006 to investigate the disappearances of cruise passengers and the sexual assault of women during cruises.
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The cruise industry was caught flat footed. The ICV
One of the interesting things about having a blog is that there are programs which indicate how many viewers you have, how many pages they look at, and the countries where they are from.
For the first two weeks of this month alone, Cruise Law News (CLN) has been viewed over 62,000 times. We have been the tenth most
Every so often, I will read an article which reminds me why I practice maritime law and represent crew members from around the world. Here is an article from Miami’s New Times about several of our clients. Although it was published several years ago, it reveals how cruise lines today mistreat crew members to try
Its been a while since I awarded my monthly "Worst Cruise Line in the World" award.
But for one cruise line – Royal Caribbean – this year has been a such nightmare that it wins the first worst cruise line award for 2011 hands down.
Last week started off with the disappearance of a 32 year old musician
