Tag: cruise ship passenger
Police investigate roundabout hit-and-run
(CNS): The RCIPS has now confirmed that it is investigating an incident that happened on 18 May involving a cruise ship visitor, who was hit by a car on the Butterfield roundabout in George Town earlier as she tried to cross the road. Police said they had tracked down the vehicle, which left the scene […]
Cruise ship visitor charged after leaving hospital
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have said that the 37-year-old man from the United States who was arrested on board a cruise ship before being rushed to hospital where he was in a critical condition has now been released and has been charged with assault, resisting arrest and possession of ganja. The police said that he was […]
Tourism sector breaking more records
(CNS): The Cayman Islands’ tourism sector continues to boom as official overnight visitor figures for January 2018 break more records. Having closed 2017 with the highest visitor numbers in history, the growth continued unabated, as 2018 began with January recording a near 24% increase in stay-over tourists and a 20% hike in cruise passengers. A […]
2½M visitors needed to make cruise port viable
(CNS): Cayman will need to attract between 2.3 and 2.5 million cruise passengers per year if the proposed cruise berthing facility in George Town is to be financially viable. The number comes from the latest, as yet unpublished, consultants’ report on how the controversial cruise port project can be financed. Such numbers, which represent a […]
Passenger falls off cruise ship in Caribbean
(CNS): A passenger travelling on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, was rescued by another cruise line after he fell overboard off the coast of Mexico last week. According to international reports, the American man, identified as 22-year-old Frank Jade by Disney Cruise Lines, had been in the water for five hours before […]
Elderly cruise tourist dies on 7MB
(CNS): The police have confirmed that while they are looking into the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a an elderly cruise ship passenger on Seven Mile Beach Monday morning, they do not believe there are any suspicious circumstances. The 88-year-old man, a Ukrainian national, was travelling aboard the Ruby Princess with his family. Emergency services were called […]
