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DIARIO Aruba
4/5/2006

ORANJESTAD(AAN): What is happening was a question to which we wanted an answer.

In the afternoon hours of Tuesday, DIARIO was able to obtain confirmation of the news on which Monday, DIARIO reporters asked the High Commissioner about, but he refused [to answer] or didn’t want to say anything.

We continued to look for information and it results that Commissioner Gerold Dompig is not at the head of the investigation into the case of Natalee Holloway. Neither is the substitute High Commissioner, now that Mr. Ronny Bernadina is no longer there.

Although it has been heard that there is discontent with Commissioner Gerold Dompig’s handing [of the case], on the other hand it has been heard that there are changes underway in the whole system of districts and commissioners because it’s not good the way it is now.

The way it is, four islands have them [?], and this has not worked. Now, each commissioner will be in charge of one task which they will obtain from the High Commissioner and the Minister also has to be aware of this.

Aside that the case of the young Holloway has brought enough problems within the Public Prosecution, it has also brought problems within the core of the police department.

How sane it is for Aruba to put and removed commissioners on the Natalee Holloway case is not yet known, but the perception is that it is not very good.

This coming Monday, the changes that High Commissioner Bernadina introduced will officially be enacted, but already as of yesterday, they started working on the basis of these changes.

Soon each commissioner will have one task and the issue that each one manages a district will be a thing of the past.

The reorganization did not take a good turn in the police force and now High Commissioner Ronny Bernadina is adapting this in his way.