It’s been about a week since cruise passengers Dongayla Dobson and Amber Shearer disembarked from the Carnival Elation and visited the Pirate’s Cove resort in Freeport, Bahamas where two Bahamian employees, at a beach resort advertised by Carnival, reportedly sexually assaulted them. You can read more about the facts of this terrible situation below:
The U.S. and Canada both started issuing travel warnings for cruise vacationers. The U.S. started issuing travel warning at the end of December 2018 and Canada began issuing travel advisories two weeks ago.
The U.S. State Department also recently began posting warnings on Twitter regarding certain dangers about cruise ships and ports of call. Its
Canada recently issued a new crime advisory for the Bahamas, warning its citizens to exercise a high degree of caution when traveling there due to high rates of crime, including a reported increase of sexual assaults against tourists.
Canada’s website advisory was updated last week to state that sexual assaults occur regularly, primarily in New
Today, I received a copy of an advisory which the staff of P&O’s Britannia distributed to passengers aboard the cruise ship, prior to disembarking in Bruges, advising them of the existence of a possible threat associated with "extremist activity in Belgium."
The advisory of today’s date, from the master of the cruise ship, says in
In what many believe to be a political game of backatcha’, the Bahamas on Friday issued a warning to its citizens planning to travel to the United States about the danger of interacting with police officers:
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken a note of the recent tensions in some American cities over
As reported in the Nassau Guardian yesterday, the United States Department of State again warned U.S. citizens about traveling to the Bahamas because of high crime.
A recent travel advisory posted on the Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) website warns visitors of an increase in armed robberies in tourist areas in New
"New Crime Warnings – Brits, Canadians Put Citizens on Alert" read the headlines of the Nassau Guardian yesterday.
The newspaper reports that the governments of Britain and Canada issued advisories to their citizens about the rising armed crimes in New Providence and Grand Bahama.
Britain updated its travel advisory to state that: "There
Two and a half months ago, I was on the front page of the Nassau Guardian warning cruise passengers about crime in Nassau Bahamas following a critical crime warning from the U.S. Embassy.
Yesterday the U.S. Embassy in Nassau issued another crime warning, advising U.S. citizens residing in and traveling to the Bahamas to be
The newspapers in Nassau continue to report the high rate of armed robberies and murder.
If you are thinking of taking a cruise to Nassau, don’t trust the U.S. based cruise lines or U.S. travel agents to be transparent with you. That would be a mistake. There are hundreds of millions of dollars to be
The news reports out of Mexico are shocking.
Six women from Spain vacationing in Acapulco were bound and raped by a gang of five men who burst into their holiday rental. Their male friends were gagged and bound by telephone cords and robbed.
One news source said the mayor of Acapulco did not help matters