This year we have been reporting on the high number of arrests by the Bermuda customs officials of cruise ship passengers for small amounts of marijuana.
A Pattern of Invading Cruise Cabins and Shaking U.S. Passengers Down for Money
All of the cases fit into a pattern.
After the cruise ship arrives in port, the passenger leave their
A number of newspapers in the U.K. are reporting that 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers were forced to endure seven hours of immigration checks when their cruise ship docked at the port of Los Angeles.
The U.K.’s Telegraph and the Mail Online have rather sensationalized accounts of how things went wrong once when passengers aboard the luxury P&O cruise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas as the first cruise ship in 2011 to suffer gastrointestinal illness affecting more than 2% of the vessel’s passengers.
The CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program website has indicated that 150 of 2336 (6.42%) of the Royal Caribbean passengers reported being ill during the
NBC New York has a nice video of the spirited reaction of passengers, who were aboard the disabled Carnival Splendor cruise ship, after returning home. The video is from NBC New York’s "The Show Must Go On, Even if the Ship Couldn’t" by Tim Minton.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn8FQwaaVII%3Ffs%3D1%26hl%3Den_US%26rel%3D0
A Korean television station is reporting that more than 30 Chinese tourists remain missing in Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju after 44 of them abandoned a tour group from a cruise ship.
The Chinese passengers arrived on the Italian cruise ship Costa Classica Sunday in Jeju from Shanghai and went to visit tourist sites on the island but did not return
TIME Magazine just published an article entitled Cruise Ship Port Call: Gauging Crime on the Bahamas.
Time addresses the November 2009 armed robbery of cruise ship passengers during Segway shore excursions in Nassau, Bahamas. Cruise Law News was the first one in the U.S. to report on the robbery in our article – 18 Passengers From Royal Caribbean &
The U.S. Department of State has issued a warning of dangers while traveling to the Bahamas, including sexual assaults on cruise ships in the port in Nassau:
"CRIME: The Bahamas has a high crime rate . . . the U.S. Embassy has received reports of assaults, including sexual assaults, in diverse areas such as in casinos, outside hotels
Celebrity Cruises is again reporting that at least 55 passengers have fallen ill on its Mercury cruise ship with norovirus-like symptoms.
In a prior article we questioned: Will the Celebrity Mercury Infect Another Round of Passengers?
Here We Go Again
A local news source in South Carolina, the Palmetto Scoop, reports on the latest cruise 
ship sickness in
Nassau’s venerable newspaper, the Nassau Guardian, published two interesting headlines in its weekend edition.
The first headline was "Oasis Makes Grand Arrival."
The second? "Record-Breaking Murder Count."
The newspaper reports that the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s new mega-ship Oasis of the Seas brought out the Government of the Bahamas in great display. 200 government
The Tribune newspaper in the Bahamas reports that 2 "vicious robbers" held a group of 11 terrified tourists at gunpoint and robbed them of cash and their possessions.
The victims are reported to be U. S. citizens from from a cruise ship which docked at at Prince Charles Wharf.
The cruise passengers took taxis for a tour of what is called the "old Bahamas"
Paul Ash, who writes columns for the Times Live in Johannesburg under the name “The Wanderer,” addresses the issue of violence by cruise passengers in an interesting article entitled “Punch-Ups and Brawls on Cruise Ships: Whose Fault is it Anyway?”
The article mentions what is described as a “mini-rampage” on the P&O cruise
