Let me make one thing clear, I am not stalking any of Britain’s royal family, and I’m not a royal family gossip monger. However, I read Yahoo! News, and I can’t help but notice when article after article on Charles and Camilla’s tour through the Caribbean keeps popping up.
At first I was intrigued. Are they in their swimsuits sunning on a beach?
The thought of Camilla in a swimsuit was not thrilling (or Charles for that matter). I admit my curiosity reached an all-time high when it said they were in Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. Why those islands, as opposed to say some fancy private one or even a posher Caribbean island selection, and what are they doing there?
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| The reggae jammin’ Charles and Camilla |
They’re apparently doing a lot of royal ambassadorish cultural things. For instance, in Jamaica they visited the museum dedicated to Bob Marley, where they listened to some reggae tunes performed by a group of Rastafarian drummers, and they also tried their hand at drumming along.
In Trinidad they visited the oldest nature park in the West Indies, the Asa Wright Nature Center. In St Lucia, the biggest news was that Camilla wore a bright purple dress. It must be a bummer to not get to wear shorts on the royal tour, I hope back at the resort they are chilling out in a nice frayed tee and some cutoffs sipping planters punches.
So all in all, if you leave out having to wear a suit everyday and the official meetings about drug trafficking and crime, it sounds like a nice trip itinerary. And frankly, a pretty inexpensive one too. Though Charles and Camilla are traveling via luxury yacht, I am sure there’s a cheaper way to travel between these islands if one were so inclined. And all the things they did? You can book all those on Viator, at a guaranteed lowest price. The only thing we don’t sell is the red carpet (you’ll just feel like its there).
May 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Dear friends,
PETA is encouraging all tourists to join companies like Holiday Systems International and Green Earth Travel in boycotting St. Kitts due to the growing controversy over the killing of animals at the Caribbean island’s Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, which is owned by the American DeVry University, and the government’s refusal to enforce its own anti-cruelty laws.
We are asking for your support in this international boycott because PETA has received complaints from students heart-broken over being forced to conduct unnecessary surgeries on animals. Healthy dogs had their stomachs, intestines, and urinary bladders needlessly cut open. After pressure from PETA, these unnecessary dog surgeries were voluntarily stopped by the school. However, sheep still have tissue removed and suffer from infected wounds because skin flaps are improperly sutured. Donkeys still have the nerves in their toes severed, their ligaments cut, plastic tubes inserted through their noses to their stomachs, their abdomens punctured, their tracheas (windpipes) cut, and fluid removed from their joints—after which they are killed so that students can practice amputating animals’ bones and drilling into their skulls. Other veterinary schools throughout the world ended this practice long ago.
Holiday Systems Insternational (HSI) President and CEO Craig Morganson wrote to PETA: “[T]he apparent willingness of the St. Kitts government to allow Ross University to needlessly harm animals when the island’s animal protection law prohibits ‘unnecessary suffering’ of animals is unacceptable. Please be assured that HSI … will no longer allow our more than 300,000 clients the option of booking St. Kitts through HSI until such time their government demonstrates a more civilized respect for animal welfare, and Ross University builds a veterinary teaching hospital and adopts the recommendations outlined by PETA.”
Your decision to boycott St. Kitts could help to spare hundreds of healthy animals from going under the knife unnecessarily. For more information, please visit http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/island_veterinary_school. Thank you for all that you do for animals!
Sean Conner
PETA
August 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM
This Reminds me of the other day when I was watching the Olympics on tv and China was playing the US in basketball….and then the camera pans over to President George Bush and Barbara just sitting (slouching) in the stands enjoying the game like everyone else.