Today (3) we have published in full an
article that appeared on the website of Attorney Jim Walker's “Cruise
Law News”. It is published under the title of “Carnival Cruise
Line, Not Jamaica or the Cayman Islands, Cancels Cruises to Those
Islands”. You can read the article at its source by going to:
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2020/03/articles/disease/carnival-cruise-line-not-jamaica-or-the-cayman-islands-cancels-cruises-to-those-islands/

The article relates “Last week,
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands blocked the MSC Meraviglia from
docking when the ship called on Ocho Rios, Jamaica and later when the
ship was scheduled to call on George Town, Grand Cayman due to
concerns with the coronavirus after a crew member apparently had
influenza. The MSC cruise ship later sailed on to Cozumel, Mexico
where authorities initially prohibited it from docking. Mexico later
reconsidered after health officials in Cozumel found no evidence that
any of the passengers or crew members had coronavirus.”

On monday, March 3rd Cruise
Law News reported that the Cayman Islands (and Jamaica) had informed
“two Carnival cruise ships that they are prohibited from calling on
ports in these countries over concerns with coronavirus.” Crew
members on the Carnival Freedom and Carnival Horizon had apparently
given this information to Cruise Law News.

“Carnival informed passengers on the
Carnival Horizon that they would not be permitted to go ashore in
Ocho Rios today. Passengers on the Carnival Freedom would not be
allowed to get off of the ship in Montego Bay. And passengers on both
ships would not be permitted ashore in George Town, Grand Cayman
later this week.”

In a letter to to their passengers
Carnival said they were “implementing some itinerary changes on
voyages scheduled to call on Grand Cayman and Jamaica this week.”
Carnival also stated it wanted to “avoid any possibility of a
visibility of a visit to a destination where there is uncertainty or
risk being turned away . . . To be clear, there is no health
situation to trigger this concern, but we are making this change to
avoid even the possibility of a disruption. We understand that some
guests will be disappointed and trust that they understand that this
decision is being made to protect their vacation and to maximize
their experience with us.”

Cruise Law News today reports the
Acting Port Director of the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands
contacted their Cruise Law News Facebook page “yesterday evening
and made it clear that it was Carnival that dropped the Cayman from a
port for these recent sailings:

“… we have not blocked any Carnival
Ship from calling the Cayman Islands … We were informed this
afternoon that Carnival had altered its itinerary for three of their
ships, Carnival Paradise, Carnival Horizon and Carnival Freedom. The
call from Carnival Paradise has been reinstated by them. However, I
can confidently state that we did not block any calls for any
Carnival ship.”

The question raised in the article is
whether “Carnival is putting these countries on notice. We're
taking our business elsewhere for irresponsible actions on their
[Jamaica and Cayman] part.”

In the Jamaica Gleaner today they
headline a story with “CRUISE CLASH - Late-Night Talks Appear To
Falter As Carnival Threatens To Pull Vessels Over Coronavirus
Protocols” See
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20200303/cruise-clash-late-night-talks-appear-falter-carnival-threatens-pull?fbclid=IwAR2K9p0sf6UndIyP9Ql9tk3SPmJiMA5viz4CupaGJ4WW-njUGkPBJREH4JM

Cruise Law News also quotes from the
above Gleaner article and also says” Several readers have suggested
that Carnival’s decision to prohibit these two ships from calling
on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands was in retaliation to these
countries’ decision to stop, at least temporarily, cruise ships
from calling at their ports. In my view, Carnival has always
traditionally considered itself the “big dog” on the block and
bristles and bullies when Caribbean ports of call make unilateral
decisions which Carnival disagrees with.”

And this is one of
the companies our government wants to go to bed with to finance our
cruise ship berthing facility?

I am making my
final appearance tonight in the First Assembly of God's production
of “Heaven's Gates & Hell's Flames”. Government could be
performing for many years in “Carnival's Gates to Hell”.