As of today Government opens applications for new government spokesperson
Bon Dia Aruba
10/03/2005

ORANJESTAD – As of today, the government has taken the steps to search for a new spokesperson. Although the government still has its ‘perschef’ officially on paper, Sr. Manolo Giel, during the four years of the Oduber Cabinet’s government, Mr. Ruben Trappenberg operated as government spokesperson or often called ‘perschef’. The latter is moving on to a new endeavor, one that he himself chose and applied to, and after an analysis he applied to the airport, Mr. Ruben Trappenberg succeeded in being accepted as the airport’s spokesperson, which at this company has another title.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Trappenberg assumed his post at the airport today, which means that automatically the government has no official spokesperson to speak to us anymore. During the course of the last four years, Trappenberg led the direction of the promotion and projects of the government.

He did this by working in the press department, independent of the Bureau Voorlicthing, which is BUVO. In his functions he worked on new and creative programs which gave the government a totally different image. Today, Mr. Trappenberg assumed his post at the airport to step aside and open up the post of government spokesperson to another person.

There is still no candidate to fill that post and it is not known what will happen to it, perhaps the function will be filled in the coming days.

The fact is that they have a person who is officially government spokesperson, but during the last four years he never really assumed the post, since Trappenberg did the job.

This issue awaits Prime Minister’s Oduber return to Aruba, since the spokesperson falls directly under his command, in this way he will find the next government spokesperson who will assume the charge for the next four years of MEP rule, or perhaps for another party.

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