The numbers from the recent cruise ship season are in. And they aren’t good.
June 12, 2013
April 16, 2013
VG students get insider’s look at cruise ship (PHOTO GALLERY)
It was a bit like taking a holiday for a dozen class four students last week: They boarded a ferry from Virgin Gorda to Tortola before producing their passports first …
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March 21, 2013
Cruise developer blasts gov’t tender process (FULL LETTER)
A senior executive of the cruise line Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited has accused the Virgin Islands government of running an unfair, nontransparent bidding process to select a developer for proposed …
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January 8, 2013
Mock cruise ship disaster planned
The Department of Disaster Management is planning to test its capability to respond to a cruise ship in distress during a simulation between 6 a.m. and noon on Friday.
November 27, 2012
Reader proposes cruise ship alternatives for VI
Our government was obviously very impressed when a large cruise company approached them and said, “Hey, we are building bigger ships and you need to increase the size of your …
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August 3, 2012
Gov’t halts cruise pier project
Government has put the brakes on plans to extend the cruise ship pier
August 3, 2012
Gov’t halts cruise pier project
Government has put the brakes on plans to extend the cruise ship pier
August 3, 2012
UK asked to intervene on cruise pier project
The following is an open letter to Henry Bellingham, Parliamentary under secretary of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
July 9, 2012
Man punches cruise ship tourist in the face
A man pleaded guilty to common assault and damaging property in Magistrates’ Court Monday,
June 27, 2012
‘Cruise by Christine’ trial starts in High Court
It took a court clerk about 25 minutes to read through an indictment
June 26, 2012
Meeting on cruise ship pier set for Wednesday
The Ministry of Communications and Works is inviting the public
May 2, 2012
Cruise decline hits jewellery stores
When he visited the territory in March, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester
March 22, 2012
Minister: Cruise ship projections down
The territory has already heard that cruise ship visits are down this year.
February 22, 2012
VI officials attend Florida cruise ship meeting
A delegation headed by Communications and Works
February 1, 2012
Maritime Museum draws cruise ship tourists
On a recent Wednesday morning, three safari buses packed with cruise ship tourists drove into the parking lot of the Centre for Applied Marine Studies at H. Lavity Stoutt Community …
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April 21, 2011
UWI cruisers stop in VI
More than two dozen scholars, faculty members and alumni of the University of the West Indies visited the territory this week as part of the UWI Open Campus Scholar Ship …
