I did a double-take when I read a newspaper headline today: British Man Murdered in the Bahamas, American Arrested on Drug Charges.
It wasn’t that the murder in the Bahamas surprised me. Murders in and around New Providence (Nassau) seem to be a daily occurrence in the Bahamas. Violent homicides and shootings are
The headlines in the Nassau, Bahamas newspapers over the last 24 hours are ominous – Man Shot Dead in Home Invasion, Shot Dead Defending Parents and Fatal Shooting in Fox Hill.
These murders take the number of homicides in the Bahamas to 96 and 97 for the year.
The Nassau newspapers
The Telegraph reports that Cruising Excursions, a company which operates tours exploring Roatan’s "fishing villages, mangroves, iguana farms and beaches," announced that it is canceling its tours on the island.
An excursion company representative said that “a string of reports of robberies, violence against visitors and now this horrific murder have forced us to suspend
Newspapers in Nassau continue to cover the bickering over whether Carnival Cruise Line should be warning its passengers about the high rate of crime in the Bahamas.
In an article last week, we pointed out the criticism leveled against Carnival by the Atlantis mega-resort that Carnival’s warning letter provided to cruise passengers had the
Yesterday Royal Caribbean and a couple of other cruise lines "voluntarily" posted a limited amount of data on their websites regarding cruise crimes and disappearances of people from cruise ships.
Of course there was nothing remotely "voluntary" about the cruise lines’ conduct.
Last week Senator Rockefeller convened a hearing where he introduced legislation intended to
Inconsistent information is emerging regarding the death of a passenger aboard the Liberty cruise ship operated by Carnival cruise line.
On November 20th we wrote about the Passenger Death On Carnival Liberty Cruise Ship based on information from a local news station in Miami – WSVN -7. After posting our article, we received a number of comments from passengers on the