USA Today reports that Star Clippers is returning to Antigua. This is less than five months after it dropped Antigua as a port of call following the murder of passenger Nina Elisabeth Nilssen.
We have written many articles about crime in Antigua and Ms. Nilssen’s untimely death.
The newspaper quotes Star Clippers’ president Jack Chatham saying:
"Star Clippers has
The Antigua Sun reports that two cruise passengers were attacked and robbed while ashore in Antigua yesterday after getting off a cruise ship.
The passengers were not identified but were described as a "British couple" who arrived in St. Johns yesterday. They are sailing aboard the Fred Olsen cruise ship, Boudicca.
The newspaper reports that the "daring daylight incident" occurred around 10:45 a.m.
The Antigua Sun newspaper in Antigua reports on the preliminary arraignment of Tishara Daniel who is charged with the murder of Nina Elizabeth Nilssen in Antigua.
The Antigua Sun contains the first photograph of Mr. Daniel.
The article contains rather bizarre details of the suspect’s clothing and shoes and what is described as nervous fidgeting by the defendant.
Mr. Daniel was held without
The following is the statement of the Nilssen family, issued today:
We, the family of Nina Elizabeth Nilssen, welcome the news that the police force in St. George, Antigua Barbuda led by Corporal Marlon Proctor have arrested and charged Tishara Daniel of Sweets Village, Antigua with the murder of our daughter. We are thankful for
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The Taos News reports that memorial services were held this weekend for Nina Nilssen.
The newspaper states that "donations will provide resources for the Q’eros people and other indigenous communities to establish Vilcanota, the world’s first spiritual national park, to protect their land, traditions and the sacred beauty of the high Andes — a place of
The police in Antigua arrested a suspect for the murder of Nina Nilssen who died January 19, 2010 after taking a tender from the Star Clippers’ Royal Clipper cruise ship to Pigeon Point Beach.
According to a newspaper in Dominica, the police arrested a 24 year-old Dominican man, Tishara Daniel. The Washington Post reports that the suspect was carrying Ms. Nilssen’s camera when
A controversy has emerged whether the officers of Star Clippers’ Royal Clipper cruise ship acted appropriately following the death of passenger Nina Nilssen ashore in Antigua.
A travel writer who was sailing aboard the Royal Clipper criticized the handling of the tragedy in her 
blog entitled: "We spend tranquil days in Antigua and St. Kitts but these are overshadowed by
The U.S. national media has begun covering the sad story of 29 year old Nina Nilssen, who was killed in Antigua following the wedding of her sister a few days earlier aboard the Royal Clipper.
This is about the saddest story imaginable where Ms. Nilssen was murdered during a once in a lifetime wedding cruise involving her extended
Cruise Law News was the first in the U.S. to report on the death of Nina Elizabeth Nilssen in Antigua on January 19, 2010. The story was then quickly picked up by our followers on Twitter, such as CruiseCritic and CruiseLog.
Stories about crimes against tourists in Caribbean ports, as sad as they may be, serve an important
The newspapers in the Caribbean are reporting that a U.S. citizen from what is described as a "wedding yacht" was murdered in Antigua.
The Antigua Observer reports that U.S. citizen Nina Elizabeth Nilssen, age 30, had been found in a desolate area of "Pigeon Point Beach" near the English Harbour / Falmouth area on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
Another newspaper