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A Bahamas resort where two Kentucky mothers claim they were drugged and raped by two employees said that the women’s account of what happened does not match its security footage. Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson said they were assaulted in broad daylight by staffers at Pirate’s Cove while relaxing on the beach while their Carnival Cruise ship was docked on the Grand Island in the Bahamas. The longtime friends said they were offered a drink special by an employee, but after just 15 minutes, began to feel incredibly intoxicated. They were ushered by a staff member into a secluded area...

Two moms from Kentucky are speaking out after they were drugged and raped in the Bahamas after the US issued a travel warning for the vacation hotspot. Longtime friends Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson said their first kid-free vacation ended with a traumatic, broad-daylight assault when they decided to go to the beach after the Carnival cruise ship they were on docked at the island country. Now they’re warning other women. The moms were relaxing on a Grand Bahama beach when a resort staffer offered them a two-for-one drink deal ... they soon felt like the drinks were much stronger...

London’s annual multicultural Notting Hill Carnival was once again marred by violence, with eight men suffering stab wounds and hundreds of people arrested for various offences including assaults on police officers, sexual assaults, and possession of drugs and weapons. The two-day Afro-Caribbean Notting Hill Carnival, which has been a staple of the summer in the Central London district since the 1960s, saw 275 people arrested and eight men stabbed this year, including a 29-year-old who was left critically injured after being attacked Monday evening on Warfield Road. Another 19-year-old man was left in serious but stable condition after being stabbed...

A Carnival Cruise passenger is missing after he jumped off the ship heading towards Florida, authorities said. The 30-year-old missing man’s relatives told staffers that he had vanished Sunday, leading security personnel to check video cameras to track his movements. A clip showed the 30-year-old man jumping off the side of the boat about 95 miles off the coast of Melbourne. “The crew was notified by his traveling companion late (Sunday) afternoon about his missing status after he had not been seen all day,” the cruise line said. “Sadly, after an exhaustive on-board search and a review of security camera...

Carnival Corporation stock trends higher on analyst upgrade, travel outlookScroll back up to restore default view. CCL Carnival Corporation +9.18% Shares of Carnival Corporation are on the rise after Jefferies upgraded the stock to a 'buy', raising the price target from $9 to $25. Yahoo Finance Live breaks down the story.

A "flash mob" of about 400 teenagers descended on a suburb outside of Chicago during the Armed Forces Carnival on Saturday and began fighting with each other, forcing the event’s cancellation, officials said. The mayhem broke out in suburban Tinley Park after the hundreds of teenagers responded to a call on social media to gather at the carnival at the 80th Avenue train station and began running around the parking lot fighting with each other to "cause chaos and disrupt the event," town officials said. A Facebook post from the village on Sunday said the last day of the event...

Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago, canceled its annual Armed Forces Carnival after a "flash mob" of 400 teenagers disrupted the event, fighting with each other.

A violent mob of 400 Chicago teenagers shut down the Armed Forces Carnival in the Tinley Park suburb Saturday, Fox News reports. After the teens fought with each other, organizers were forced to cancel the event. Town officials said the teens responded to a call on social media to “cause chaos and disrupt the event.” WATCH THE CLIP BELOW: https://twitter.com/Mr_Bogus0007/status/1660489339766177792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1660489339766177792%7Ctwgr%5E813e9a7140b2e5962f7fe40c8ef73f5536cfa51e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toddstarnes.com%2Fus%2F400-teens-riot-in-chicago-suburb%2F

All hell broke loose poolside on board a Carnival Cruise ship earlier this month. A shocking new video has emerged showing two groups involved in a verbal altercation by the Tides Bar beside the swimming pool on board the Carnival Sunrise ship. The verbal dispute, that involved some pushing and shoving, eventually turns extremely violent.

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Ten people, including five children, were critically injured after the amusement ride came crashing down, the Hindustan Times reported. The scary moment was captured on video and shared with KTLA by Nikhil Choudhary. It shows the ride spinning for several seconds before dropping uncontrolled to the ground. The screaming passengers bounced several feet into the air following the impact at the base of the ride. Most suffered back and jaw injuries but all of the riders were expected to survive...

Carnival Corporation succeeded in rolling over some short-term debt this week -- at "no upfront cost." That's good news for Carnival, reducing the short-term risk of bankruptcy. What is the risk that Carnival's debt load will prevent it from earning a profit? On a modestly green day for the stock market, with the S&P 500 just dipping its toe into positive territory as of 10 a.m. ET, shares of cruise stock company Carnival Corporation (CCL 2.34%) (CUK 1.89%) are doing better than most, up 2.8%. Carnival announced last night that it has closed a previously announced debt exchange, and this...

(Bloomberg) -- Carnival Corp. is leading peers lower on Thursday after pricing one of the year’s largest equity sales at a steeper discount than usual. The world’s largest cruise line fell 13% after the sale priced 102 million of shares at $9.95 each overnight, according to a statement. The deal raised about $1 billion that Carnival says it might use to address 2023 debt maturities. The offering price reflects slightly more than a 10% discount to Wednesday’s close, the steepest awarded across at least five Carnival stock offerings conducted since the start of the pandemic. “This equity raise will cause...

Dramatic videos emerged on social media Thursday, showing flames and thick black smoke pouring out of the smokestack of a Carnival Cruise ship in the Turks and Caicos. The cruise line confirmed that a part of Carnival Freedom caught fire after the ship docked at Grand Turk. “Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk,” company spokesperson Matt Lupoli told The Post in a statement. “All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore.”

The main suspects, who were arrested, were born in 1988 and 1990, he said, adding that terrorism was not at this stage considered a motive. Verheyen said the two came from La Louviere, a town near the French border in Belgium's rust belt, and are not known to authorities for similar acts. Belgian towns and villages host many street carnivals around the season of Lent, with the parades in Binche and Aalst the best known internationally. Strepy-Bracquegnies involves participants dressed up as "Gilles", extravagantly attired comical figures who are "called out" to the parade in the early hours. La Louvriere...

Carnival Cruise Line plans to make masks optional for its guests from March 1 after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eased its warnings for cruise ships, the company said in a statement late on Friday. The company said masks would be recommended but not required.

A second consecutive plunge in revenues and a multibillion-dollar loss are hardly a surprise but the last two years leave the balance sheet looking very stretched, so stretched the valuation is less attractive and the risks are higher now that they were in 2019. As such it is time to admit that a chunk of the money sunk into the shares at nearly £36 a pop is gone and move on. This may seem perverse at a time when travel restrictions are easing, the prospects for improved bookings for the key summer season are improving and this column continues to...

Since the beginning of our fiscal year, [and Carnival's presumably speaking of fiscal 2022 here, so pay attention if you want to know how this current year is going], we have experienced an impact on bookings for our near-term sailings, including higher cancellations resulting from an increase in pre-travel positive test results and challenges in the availability of timely pre-travel tests. In addition, in the last few weeks we have seen a dampening of the booking activity for the second half of 2022 relative to 2019. In other words, customers are canceling trips in the first half of the year,...

Cruise with 55 COVID cases will remain at sea until this weekend Ship set to return to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday after skipping stops in Curaçao and Aruba Published: December 23, 2021, 9:06 AM Updated: December 23, 2021, 9:12 AM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A cruise out of South Florida will skip two ports after 55 people onboard tested positive for COVID-19. Royal Caribbean International confirmed Thursday that its Odyssey of the Seas ship will not stop in Curaçao or Aruba as planned. “The decision was made together with the islands out of an abundance of caution due to the...

Specifically the cruise lines have the toughest predicament. They are dealing with it, but there are giant storms to wade through before clear sailing. Management so far has survived the Covid-19 disaster but they are still on life support. It is hard to instill confidence on Wall Street if you can’t land the sales on Main street. The same risks still face Carnival as cruising has not yet gone back to normal. They can rebuild but there are no guarantees. Mutations are unpredictable therefore this sector will have headline risk for a long while. Perhaps of all the travel and...