Bad news for our friends in the Bahamas and cruise passengers intending to vacation there.
The U.S. State Department’s 2012 "Crime and Safety Report" has labeled New Providence island’s (including Nassau) criminal threat level as "critical" with Grand Bahama’s island’s (including Freeport) level as "high."
"In previous years, most violent crimes involved mainly Bahamian
The alleged robbers of a bus load of Celebrity cruise passengers in St. Kitts are facing trial for a crime committed during an excursion in St. Kitts in November 2010.
We wrote about this incident in our article More Cruise Tourists Robbed, This Time In St. Kitts.
The robbery targeted 17 cruise passengers from
A reader of Cruise law News in Panama brought an article in the Panamanian newspaper Prensa, entitled “MP Abre Sumario a Capitán de Crucero” to my attention this morning.
As I predicted last week, Panama has decided to proceed with a criminal investigation into the conduct of the Master of the Princess Cruises
Yesterday, we reported on the case of Cunard cruise youth supervisor Paul Trotter who was arrested in February after police in England were tipped off that his home computer contained indecent images of children. When the police seized his computer, they realized that Trotter had filmed himself sexually abusing the children on the cruise ships.
Yesterday, Australia’s 60 Minutes aired a special program investigating crimes on cruise ships.
The program mentioned the disappearance of Rebecca Coriam (from the Disney Wonder) and Merrian Carver (from the Celebrity Mercury), the outrageous circumstances surrounding the death of Dianne Brimble on a P & O cruise ship, and the sexual assault of
"Please remove your tampon, I have a job to do."
I have heard some weird and outrageous cruise ship stories over the years, but if this one is true it takes the cake.
A lawsuit filed last month alleges that Carnival cruise employees suspected that a 17 year old girl on the Carnival Sensation
There is a lot of controversy today about the seizure of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship in Galveston. Lawyers in Mississippi and Texas who are representing the family of a German woman killed on the Costa Concordia filed a lawsuit against Carnival in Galveston. In addition to the lawsuit, they filed a motion to obtain
A member of Cruise Critic posted a photograph of some kind of device designed to prevent the insertion of a key card to unlock a passenger cabin door as well as to padlock the door handle from moving.
The passenger apparently sailed aboard an unidentified Royal Caribbean cruise ship last month, and invited the fellow
NBC Bay Area aired a cruise crime special last night regarding the problem of sexual assaults at sea. The program is called "Crime Onboard – The Dark Side of Cruising."
NBC reports that although cruising is one of the most popular ways to travel and vacation, passengers are often left in the dark
As part of its special investigation into the problem of crime on cruise ships, "Crimes Onboard – The Dark Side of Cruising," NBC Bay Area interviewed Congresswomen Doris Matsui (D-CA) who was instrumental in the passage of the Cruise Vessel Security & Safety Act.
Congresswoman Matsui’s constituent (and our client) Laurie Dishman called
In a weird ending to a weird cruise story, two California men who were arrested on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship while it was docked in Dominica pleaded guilty to indecent exposure at a hearing yesterday and were then ridiculed by a local magistrate.
Yesterday we mentioned the bizarre circumstances surround the Atlantis Events cruise:
Another Atlantis gay cruise resulted in public controversy yesterday when police in Dominica arrested two passengers on the Celebrity Summit on suspicion of indecent exposure and “buggery” (sodomy).
Someone on the dock supposedly observed the passengers having sex on the cruise ship. The two arrested passengers were men in their 40’s from California. Newspaper accounts
The Federal Bureau of Investigations ("FBI") arrested the assistant cruise director of the Norwegian Star cruise ship for engaging in sex with a 16 year old passenger and possessing child pornography.
29 year old Senad Djedovic, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, worked for Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) for six years for a number of different NCL
Australia’s popular television program Dateline aired a cruise special today about missing passengers & crewmembers and crime at sea.
The program starts with the case of missing Disney youth counselor Rebecca Coriam who disappeared from the Disney Wonder cruise ship last year. Her parents Mike and Ann Coriam were interviewed and express their thoughts about
Yesterday I talked about the recent armed robbery of 22 Carnival cruise passengers who were traveling in a bus back to the port in Puerto Vallarta during a Carnival sponsored excursion.
I mentioned that the cruise lines and tourism officials would quickly start a PR campaign to convince the public that robberies of large groups
The issue of the safety of cruise passengers in Mexico is again in the news with the armed robbery of twenty-two cruise passengers in Mexico on Thursday.
The passengers had sailed to Mexico on the Carnival Splendor and were on an excursion near Puerto Vallarta which was advertised and sponsored by the cruise line.
A Mexican
With cruise safety hearings coming up later this month in Washington, the debate will resume regarding how many crimes really occur on cruise ships.
The cruise lines will say that crime is rare but will not refer to any database to support their their self-serving conclusion. Cruise lines do not reveal their own internal crime
The U.S. House and Senate have scheduled hearings for February 29 and March 1, 2012 to address whether the cruise industry has taken adequate steps to protect cruise passengers and comply with newly enacted laws designed to make cruising safer.
A series of events prompted the Congressional hearings.
First, and most obvious, is the
