Posted on 01/19/2010 2:49:07 PM PST by alabama_heart
Don’t know if this is good or bad. Sounds creepy to me.
Link?
Yes, the cruise lines should immediately suspend all operations in Haiti, thus bringing an instant halt to the influx of cash that goes into the local economy.
Ummmm rum cocktails.
Can’t ya hide all those piling up dead bodies?
I’m trying to enjoy my vacation here.
This is really sick.
I’m kinda torn on this but stopping some of what little revenue Haiti is making really shouldn’t be an option.
Oh it would be so much better for Haiti if we just shut down their entire economy by stopping cruises from going there.
Seems to me that Haiti could use all of the cruises docking there that they can get.
I think its great they dropped of pallets of food supplies and income from touris’s win win win
How DARE those people have a good time while there is so much suffering in the world. </sarc>
There is nothing wrong with Royal Caribbean doing this. In fact, they are helping the local Haitian economy and maintaining jobs for the local people.
What, are people supposed to pay hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for a cruise and they miss a port? The port was not damaged and this allows local people to keep their jobs and support their families.
There is nothing unethical about what Royal Caribbean is doing.
It’s just an excuse for liberals (who detest private industry from the bottom of their hearts) to go after another company.
It’s all about feeeelings, instead of thinking things through.
I doubt if this infuses much cash into the local economy. The passengers are in a closed leased area. The only people making any $$$$ are the probably corrupt Haitian officials who made the deal.
Labadee is 80 miles from the island of Haiti. Cuba sucks, should we stop partying in Florida ?
Get a grip. Labadee is beautiful, and, the Haitians that work there need the income. DBADA.
Quite a dicotomy. Judging by the images of roving bands with machetes, I’d say Haiti’s economy was non-existant even in better times.
I hear machine gun toting guards guard the high fence keeping the riff raff out. I’m OK in the theory, but the money is going to the corrupt gov’t.
But why create a special port? Aren’t there enough other ports of call in the Caribbean?
When I first read the headline I got a weird feeling that it might be inappropriate given the circumstances, but after a few more seconds of deliberation it’s probably a good thing. Cruise lines and the tourism industry employ local people and bring in needed cash to a devastated economy. I think that outweighs any appearance of “insensitivity”.
Bill Clinton just said they have to think about how to get Haiti going again - this cruise line is providing employment right now. They should be asking other cruise ships to stop there in order to give the Haitian economy some help.
Uh, maybe Labadee is not so nice... Here’s a vacation video from a week or two before the quake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmWMFDvEeD0
For sightseeing? Maybe the local flair? Help cremate piles of corpses?
Now is, most definitely, NOT the time to take a little vacation jaunt to Haiti.
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