A new culinary training center in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood celebrated its first class of graduates in December. Funded by Miami, Florida, hotels, the HEAT program helps prospective cooks land good jobs.
The year started out poorly for Cuba’s tourism industry, but the island is still expected to welcome a record 4.75 million visitors in 2018. Canada and the United States are the leading markets.
Royal Caribbean reported 20-year-old Arron Hough overboard on Harmony of the Seas on Christmas Day. The Coast Guard continued to search for him on Wednesday.
A man with autism who went overboard on the Carnival Fantasy ship has been identified by his family as 22-year-old Luke Renner of Johns Creek, Georgia. His family said he may have thought he was going swimming.
A passenger on a Carnival Cruise Line ship has been missing and likely went overboard. This passenger is the fourth person to go missing on a cruise ship in less than a month. In all three previous cases, they did not find the missing passengers.
A jury found Royal Caribbean was not responsible for the death of 22-year-old Nathan Skokan who went overboard on the Independence of the Seas in 2016 and was never found.
The cruise line company plans to offer BOLT, called "the first-ever roller coaster at sea" on its Mardi Gras ship. Mardi Gras is based in Port Canaveral, Florida.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen program proposes to consolidate flight paths in South Florida’s airspace, and critics are concerned the increased concentration of air traffic will lead to noise pollution.
