A week ago, we reported on the disappearance of a crew member from the MSC Musica on June 18, 2017 after the cruise ship left the port of Venice heading to Brindisi, Italy.
The crew member is from Brazil, named Simone Souza Scheuer.
Today, the Italian newspaper Venezia Today reports that a murder investigation was opened
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This morning, a driver of a minibus, reportedly operated by Stuart Cove Dive shop, was shot and killed in downtown Nassau, Bahamas. The Facebook page of Nassau resident Tellis Virgil’s Speak Up Bahamas discussed the incident and includes a photograph of the crime scene.
Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas is described as "Nassau’s leading full service
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Earlier today, I mentioned the recent disappearance of a young Chinese woman from the MSC Magnifica.
It appears that she may have been a murder victim, according to the police in Italy who are investigating the case.
If this is true, this is hardly the first time that a cruise passenger has been killed at
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Numerous newspapers are reporting that a woman cruising with her husband aboard the MSC Magnifica with their two young children (ages 4 and 6) on a Mediterranean cruise, starting in Civitavecchia, Italy, disappeared last week. The woman has been identified as Xing Lei Li. Her husband has been identified as Daniel Belling.
Italian police arrested the
Today, the United States embassy in Nassau issues a "Personal Security Awareness" security message about the crime problem in Nassau. The message says:
"This message is to remind U.S. Citizens resident and visiting New Providence Island (Nassau) and Paradise Island to be mindful of their surroundings at all times and employ practical personal security awareness when
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
Canada has issued another travel advisory, warning that travelers to the Bahamas "should exercise a high degree of caution (due to) high rates of crime, especially in Nassau."
The Canadian government said that "crime occurs mainly in Nassau and Freeport. There has been an increase in armed robberies targeting tourists in Nassau. Incidents take
Crime in the Bahamas remains critical, according to an annual report published by the U.S. Department of State.
The U.S. report comes at a time when the Bahamas continues with a high murder rate. The report says that "2015 was the most deadly year in Bahamian history." Today the Nassau Guardian reports in an
The Tribune newspaper in Nassau reports that the Bahamas leads the Caribbean in the number of recorded rapes, according to a report by the National Task Force for Gender Based Violence.
The Tribune says that "over a 10-year period, from 2003 to 2013, there were 1,109 reported rapes, according to police statistics. In addition, from 2008
The Tribune newspaper in Nassau, a newspaper anyone thinking of cruising into the Bahamas with your family should read, blasts the following headline today: Four In Hospital After New Year Shootings.
The Bahamas reached a record murder rate in 2015 of 148 homicides, reported by the Tribune. Putting this murder rate into perspective, the