BVI seeing more cruise cancellations
Three upcoming cruise ship calls to the BVI have been cancelled.
This is according to the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) who said those cancellations span two cruise lines.
“The BVIPA would like to announce the cancellation of cruise calls by Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Summit on 11 August 2021 and 26 August 2021 and Celebrity Equinox on 12 August 2021,” the Authority said in a media release on Monday.
It added: “Regarding the current warm lay-up, on 13 August 2021 Royal Caribbean International’s Grandeur of the Seas will be departing the territory. The public is reminded that the Cruise Pier area is a secured zone and persons are not permitted past the security gate.”
A number of cruise lines have cancelled calls to the BVI, which has been experience a major COVID-19 outbreak in the last few weeks. At its peak, the active positive cases in the territory was a little more than 1,600 persons. The BVI’s case count is now less than 200 persons.
The territory’s reported COVID death toll to date is 37.
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Perhaps the BVIPA could tell us the reasons why Celebrity cancelled their ship visits to the BVI.
Otherwise we can only assume that the BVI is just too dangerous a port to visit for their passengers.
Cuz we ain’t vaccinated. Duh
Until we are they will sail right on by. Or go to the USVI
Buh bye another season
The grammar in this report is appalling.
“ The BVIPA would like to announce the cancellation
of cruise calls ”
Wow! Surely they should not like to announce that?
They are supposed to be helping the industry.
Glad!!! keep um out because they are a set of vaccinated delta variant carriers.
Hope you’re vaccinated. If not prepare your will as you may die
Please do not divide,we are all one people.In life we make mistakes so we need to address them where possible.In the latest cruise news,there have been a covid-19 outbreak on a carnival cruise ship with all onboard fully vaccinated.It has spark some concerns about the vaccine so the WHO and The CDC are looking into this matter because science is changing.
Keep jumping on the bandwagon with brainwashed bulls**t while you miss the big picture. Some people can only reason as far as a dollar bill. These are the ones that are about to be caught out while they spew garbage about the unvaxxed who are fighting to save their lives in this evil agenda that is being perpetrated on the planet. There were many that warned about what was coming but they were ridiculed abused and made to suffer. Now we have gone full circle “Welcome to the New World Order.”
There was no new world order when the Spanish flu struck. There was no new world order when polio was destroying lives. There was no new world order when swine flu hit. Every time a new vaccine has come out, weird stories follow. The new world order story was started as a political tool to destroy an opponent in a major election. I have family members who are doctors and in research. They were vaccinated as was I and the rest of my family. Covid is real. When you see people you know dying, just think, the next one may be you or someone you love. Keep resisting the vaccine and the Cruise ships and charter boats will have no problem resisting the BVI. You are your own worst enemy. If the virus continues to produce variants, the scientists say that a new one could be totally resistant to the vaccines available now. God have us brains. Use yours.
Blame the present vaccine government. They pulled it off with the previous cruise ship visit and put the country in a terrible deficit!
Well there’s a surprise. Tourists paying good money don’t want to land in a country with a majority of stupid primitives who refuse to be vaccinated.
Hooda thunk?
Wonderful news. Now we can clean up and rehabilitate our coasts and reefs and concentrate on higher end, spending overnight tourists and sustainable tourism practices. This is where the value and the future is, We may as well catch up rather than fall back and let these things destroy our islands and not give a damn (such as being fined by Florida courts for polluting practices and just carry on regardless)
Please have your articles proofread. One of the shameful realities of all the local online journals is poor English. Once online, these publications showcase our literacy or lack thereof to the international arena. So, one of the mistakes above is that “which has been experience a major COVID-19” should have read “which has been experiencing a major COVID-19.”
1600 cases to 200 in several weeks????? Don’t believe it !!!