Published 07.12.2015 at category «Asia Cruise »
Lawyers involved in a trial are not suppose to make comments during trial which are likely to affect the jury or trier of fact. What Carnival doesn't say, however, is that the cruise line made a business decision last year not to pay a dime to any passengers who elected to file suit. To add salt into the wound, at the end of the year, Carnival Chairman Micky Arison (already worth close to $6,000,000,000) paid himself a $90,000,000 bonus. The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely on advertisements. The newspaper also contacted the police department which would not comment whether a rape occurred on the unidentified cruise ship or not.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that an act of sexual assault may have been perpetrated against one of the cruise passengers by one of the vessel’s crew members. The Police Force’s Press and Public Relations Officer Inspector Lyndon David - when contacted by this publication and questioned about this issue - declared that he could not confirm or deny at that moment. The Observer understands the individual was charged with the offense over the weekend following the arrest on a Friday.
The newspaper also says that it is "not known if the alleged offence was committed while the vessel was docked, however the Royal St. Tags: #carnival, Caribbean Islands, Crime, assault, carnival, cruise, cruise rape, cruise", nevis, port, port zante, sexual, ship, st.
The Business Insider article contains a link to the NTSB report of the fire, which is interesting reading. I was disappointed that the article did not mention the deadly Star Princess cruise ship fire in 2006.
The theory is that trials are suppose to be decided based on the testimony and exhibits introduced into evidence, and not by PR statements which are not subject to the rules of evidence and which may be designed to sway the jury. This is the same company which owns the Costa Concordia which capsized with over 4,000 passengers and crew on board, killing 32 souls. They have tens of millions in salary and bonuses to reward their CEO's even when their ships catch fire or sink. Walker of Walker & O'Neill Law Firm, offering services related to injuries, sexual assaults, fires, negligence, rapes & disappearances on cruise ships, pirate & terrorist attacks, missing passengers, shore excursions, wrongful death and the Jones Act, serving cruise passengers, crew members, cabin attendants, utility workers, waiters, bar tenders, ship doctors and cleaners on cruise ships worldwide. Before you make this important decision, ask us to send you written information about our qualifications and experience. Both were stranded by engine fires, though the Splendor was left floating in the Pacific Ocean. The pirates fired on it with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades before the captain changed course and got away. The virus caused widespread vomiting and other gastrointestinal ills on the ship, which left from Charleston, S. C. About 300 of the ship's passengers disembarked early, in Charleston, after the storm had passed. The ship's on-board system did not suppress the fire, which charred the entire stern of the ship. But press releases like this from the Carnival PR team are obviously not released to the public until after they are vetted by Carnival's in-house lawyers. Any other cruise line would have resolved this type of case on a reasonable basis long ago.
After three days the Splendor and its 4,500 passengers were towed back to the San Diego Bay. None of the ship's 300 passengers were hurt, and the ship made it to the Seychelles where the rocket damage was repaired. Kitts has finally acknowledged that a crew member from the Carnival Valor was arrested on charges of raping a cruise passenger while the cruise ship was in territorial waters of the island. But for the nice people who boarded the dangerously neglected and unseaworthy Triumph cruise ship last year, Carnival doesn't have a penny. Christopher and Nevis Police Force is making investigations into an incident of assault that occurred on a cruise vessel which was berthed at Porte Zante yesterday (Jun.
Kitts police took a crew member into custody the day of the report of the sexual assault and that the Valor left port later than its scheduled time due to the incident. It would rather pay its defense lawyers a few million dollars to try and squash the Triumph passengers who decided to seek compensation. If the fire had occurred just an hour or two later on the high seas and away from the fire boats, the Ecstasy would have burned down to the hull.