Belize's registry has poor ratings ... Of the 433 Belizean ships inspected in 2001 in European and North American ports, 104 were detained until problems on board were rectified.

Some 89 people - about 4 per cent of the cruise ship's 2,164 passengers - have reported being sick. Read more at straitstimes ...

About 90 passengers and crew on a Royal Caribbean cruise in the Gulf of Mexico have fallen sick with a gastrointestinal ...