1.13.2006

While the family’s case for damages and prejudice takes place this morning
Monday the Superior Court will deal with Joran v.d. Sloot’s appeal to obtain documents from the Public Prosecutor
Bon Dia Aruba
01/13/2006

ORANJESTAD – While this morning at 9 o’clock the court will deal with the case of damages and prejudice the v.d. Sloot family brought against the government, Monday, members of the Superior Court will deal with Joran v.d. Sloot’s appeal to obtain documents from the Public Prosecutor.

DAMAGES AND PREJUDICE

As Bon Dia Aruba has published, this morning Mr. Paul van der Sloot, accompanied by his lawyer, Mr. Swaen, will present himself in court to deal with the case of damages and prejudice against the government.

This week, the Superior Court handed down its judgment in the case of Mr. Paul van der Sloot and decided that not only Mr. Paul van der Sloot, but also his family, among others Joran van der Sloot, can bring a case of damages and prejudice.

It is Bon Dia Aruba’s understanding that this type of case is conducted behind closed doors. However, Bon Dia Aruba will undertake all efforts to obtain information about this case to be able to inform our readers.

JORAN’S CASE

Monday at 3.30 in the afternoon, the Superior Court will deal with the case of the appeal that attorney Carlo started against the Judge Commissioner’s decision, which rejected Mr. Carlo’s request to obtain documents from the Public Prosecutor related to the Holloway case.

Among the documents, Mr. Carlo wants to obtain the report from the forensic institute of Holland NFI, which observed that there was a manipulation in the recording which aired on the Dr. Phil show in the U.S. It is Bon Dia Aruba’s understanding that members of Curacao Court will deal with this case and that the case will take place behind closed doors.

1.12.2006

Plea to the ‘jogger’ and the ‘cab driver’ to contact police
DIARIO Aruba
01/12/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): The case of Natalee clearly indicates that the investigators are maintaining the case alive, given that they want to bring clarity to what exactly happened to the young student during her stay on the island.

As it is known, this case has been ongoing since the 30 of May and there is no clue about her disappearance. Police are putting out a plea to the person who was jogging and called police related to Natalee’s case. The jogger is one of those key persons in the case, and this is why police are asking him to get in touch with authorities.

In the meantime, there is also a cab driver of initial M. who spoke to the police related to the case of Natalee, and investigators also ask if he could get in touch with authorities. The jogger and the cab driver can call xxx-xxxx, Commissioner Dompig will deal with them directly.
Now Friday
Texas Equusearch comes back to Aruba
DIARIO Aruba
01/12/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): The KPRC-TV channel from Houston reported that the founder of Texas EquuSearch, Tim Miller, is heading to Aruba along with a diving team from Florida after a report from the island reached them, that they could know where the body of Natalee Holloway could be.

The search team will concentrate in an area of 3 to 5 miles off the coast of Aruba, which has a depth of 800 to 1000 feet.
Tim Miller told the Houston TV channel that the Comissioner from Aruba said that the feel that Natalee could be in a fish trap which was thrown very deep in the sea.

“The night she disappeared, is the same night that a theft took place at the fisherman’s huts, and one gigantic trap was stolen, as well as a big knife and none of these were ever found”, Miller said.

If by any chance Natalee is in this trap, the possibility exists that they could find her with the team they are bringing.

Tim Miller also told KPRC-TV that the last time that he was in Aruba he was threatened to be arrested because he was working without a permit. Miller answered to the Aruba authorities that he was not working for anyone, and that he was a volunteer.

1.11.2006

The Superior Court has now given a reason
Friday Paul van der Sloot and family start case of damages and prejudice
Bon Dia Aruba
01/11/2006

ORANJESTAD – Now that the Superior Court has handed down the judgment in favour of Paul van der Sloot, he and his family are bringing a case of damages and prejudice against the Government.

An investigation Bon Dia Aruba is conducting shows that yesterday the Superior Court in CuraƧao handed down the judgment in the appeal of Paul van der Sloot which was dealt with on December 19, 2005.

JUDGMENT APPEALED

In an exclusive interview Bon Dia Aruba had with attorney Swaen, who represents Paul van der Sloot, he explained that the judgment that the Superior Court gave yesterday is about the appeal which took place December 19, 2005.

Mr. Swaen explained that the appeal was about the decision of the Court of First Instance on the case of Paul van der Sloot to be able to bring a case of damages and prejudice against the government.

In the case, Paul van der Sloot asked for him and his family to bring a case of damages and prejudice.

The Court of First Instance decided that only Paul van der Sloot could bring a case of damages and prejudice, not his family.

SUPERIOR COURT JUDGMENT

Yesterday, the Superior Court handed down the decision on the appeals case, where the three judges declared that they do not share the opinion of the Court of First Instance.

The Superior Court showed that according to article 179 lid 3 Sv, it is possible for the family of Paul van der Sloot to also sue for damages and prejudice.

CASE IN COURT

Friday, January 13 2006, Paul van der Sloot and his family will start a case of damages and prejudice against the government. Paul van der Sloot is represented by Mr. Swaen, who is the attorney who assisted him from the beginning.

As it is known, Swaen was able to get the judge to set Paul van der Sloot free when he was detained related to the Holloway case. Afterwards, Mr. Swaen brought the case where it was noted that Paul van der Sloot has nothing to do with the penal case in what relates to Holloway and that he can now bring the case of damages and prejudice.

Finally, Mr. Swaen achieved that not only Paul van der Sloot, but that also all his family, Joran van der Sloot included, can bring a case of damages and prejudice against the government.

This is how this case will be deal with in the Court here in Aruba for the members of the Justice Court of Aruba. The handling of the case will take place behind closed doors, that is to say that the press will not be able to cover the handling of this case. Given that it is the whole family that is suing, it can be expected that the lawsuit will be very high.
Amongst all the rumours that have circulated there is one that says that Natalee was buried twice!
Anonymous telephone call claims to know what happened with Natalee Holloway and where she is buried!
On the first night she was first buried once and two nights later she was buried at another location
www.solodipueblo.com
01/11/2006

STA. CRUZ – It was on the 31st of December that at the Rumba 91.5 FM studios came a telephone call from a man who did not indentify himself, who claimed to know where Natalee Holloway is and that he had to get in touch with Carlos & Charlies urgently.

This call came in via the Rumba number at xxx-xxxx while Rumba 91 FM was presenting the 91 biggest songs of the year.

The DJ was busy at that moment, and called management for them to deal with the case and when the management took over the telephone the man only wanted to get the number of Carlos & Charlies. They recommended at that time that the man call 118-Setar to ask for the number due to the fact that the man sounded quite strange.

It is Solo di Pueblo’s understanding that it is true that the man tried to get in touch with the management of Carlos & Charlies and here he divulged certain information. We understand also that Carlos & Charlies called authorities at once to inform them of the details that they got via telephone. Authorities did not waiver and followed these details closely and also took a few other preventive actions in this case.

It must be mentioned that when the end of the year arrives, this creates certain emotional moments in people’s lives and they can take certain decisions that they would not normally take. Perhaps the date of the 31st of December could play a role in this anonymous call?

The call which came in to Rumba 91.5 FM claimed that he knew exactly what happened with Natalee and also where Natalee is buried. It could be the case of a drug addict who was mentioned that he contributed and helped dig a whole to bury Natalee? And after a few days, they took Natalee out of this whole and went another way? Stories that circulated were many but among these there was a version that Natalee was in the company of 3 young men at the Hyatt beach. One security guard who passed on that side took note of strange movements and went to look for a colleague to accompany him and take a look, and at his return, he did not find anyone anymore?

It is also said that in the Hyatt beach surroundings they tried to dig a hole on the beach but that this resulted to be difficult. It was said that they took Natalee behind the Lighthouse where she was buried for a day and afterwards taken out and taken another way.

These are a few of the speculations which have been commented. The Public Prosecutor said that they have reasons to believe that Natalee Holloway is dead. The question remains: Are there still people who can find where she is buried? The call to Rumba 91 FM came in the afternoon hours. SDP has information that the call was also received at Carlos & Charlies.
Destruction of Beach Cemetery
DIARIO Aruba
01/11/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN) --- In the afternoon hours, citizens reported to DIARIO to check what happened at the Beach Cemetery, due to some destruction that took place.

When our photographer arrived, he truly met a situation which was not very good. At the location, he met with the person who is in charge of the Cemetery and according to him he comes every day to check on the cemetery.

By chance, he came at noon and encountered 5 graves completely broken. The perpetrators broke everything that they could from these 5 graves.

DIARIO does not know if the rage was against the deceased, but this is not a way to do things. Principally in the cemetery, as it is said, that if when one is dead one does not find peace that is when you die.

DIARIO pleads for all those who could have seen something to call police to inform then about this case. Additionally, it’s good to inform that the case is under investigation.
Everett Clay Associates are proud
Jamaican tourism had record growth for 2005
DIARIO Aruba
01/11/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): The news that shook up the Caribbean on Tuesday was when the government of Kingston indicated that the island of Jamaica received a record number of tourists for 2005, some 2.6 million. This is an increase of more than 4% compared with 2004.

It is more than clear that Jamaica is happy with this. In the happiness DIARIO noted the American promotion company, Everett Clay Associates. They are doing the promotion for Jamaica now, and this success made them very happy.

In the past, Aruba was also represented by Everett Clay Associates, who did a very professional work to promote Aruba.

However, when the MEP government took power, Minister Briesen dropped this group and selected another one for reasons that are not yet very clear.

Many observers believe that if Aruba was with Everett Clay Associates as partners during the dark months of the missing Alabama student, they would have surely done a better job of defending Aruba. It can still be recalled the questions of many people during June and July 2005, who wanted to know where were those in the U.S. to defend Aruba.

After Minister Briesen dropped Everett Clay Associates, they went to do promotion work for Jamaica. Now the fruits of their success can be seen.

Jamaica is also happy with the aggressive work of Everett Clay Associates and also of their Tourism Agency. For the month of November alone, Jamaica experienced an increase of 25.4%
The American press also reported on this extensively on Tuesday, and it could also be seen on CNN.

As for Aruba? Apparently, the government is so shocked at the statistics of the second half of 2005 that there are still no ‘official’ statistics produced by the Aruba Tourism Authority, and this even started to receive criticism from different local institutions. Perhaps MEP has thought to come out with the ‘statistic eating virus’ joke again?
High Commissioner Mr. Ronny Bernadina explained why
“Year 2005 was not a good year for the police force of Aruba”
DIARIO Aruba
01/11/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN) – Diario approached High Commissioner Mr. Ronny Bernadina to find out about what 2005 signified for the police force, what they achieved and what didn’t go well.

High Commissioner Bernadina explained that the year 2005 was not good for KPA. Although they still don’t have all the details, when the statistics are out, they will publish these in detail, but in what relates to his own experience, he considers 2005 as a very troublesome year.

In regards to traffic accidents, Mr. Bernadina let it be known that in Oranjestad there were 3.172 accidents and very regrettably there were fatal cases, with a total of 9 killed in traffic, where three of these were motorcyclists, 4 were drivers of the cars, and 1 was a passenger. Compared with 2004, this decreased a little, from 14 to 9, but according to the Commissioner, this is nothing to brag about either.

High Commissioner Bernadina underlined that traffic is still unsafe, and this is due to high speeds (racing?) and this increased more in the year 2005. The forecast he has is that in 2006 also, drivers will try this, but police have measure for this situation.

Additionally, motorcyclists are using a lot of civil disobedience by not using their helmets and this too will have police’s attention this year. They will start a verbal process, and at a certain time they will take the license of the motorcyclists in question if it should get to this.

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The High Commissioner indicated that quad racers were also a growing problem last year, where at certain times they had to be stopped for speeding, and there was even a case where a person passed away in an accident due to not being able to operate the vehicle properly.

Personally, if it were in his hands, High Commissioner Mr. Ronny Bernadina would eliminate all quad racers from the public streets and would not give permission to operate these on public streets, but would allow them to run where they would not disturb our environment, and it isn’t an obstacle at the national park or other places.

According to the High Commissioner, in the U.S. and other countries, all these vehicles are regulated, but in Aruba they only have one door open to them. In any case, police will control them and especially in the general traffic there will be a lot of control this year.

Last year there were funds destined for control, but due to unforeseen circumstances, such as the case of Natalee and other unplanned activities, there was not enough in KPA’s budget to be able to implement this.
Paul van der Sloot makes a request to be sworn in as an attorney
DIARIO Aruba
01/11/2005

ORANJESTAD (AAN) – Paul van der Sloot recently made a request to the Common Court of Justice of the Antilles and Aruba to be sworn in as an attorney. Van der Sloot will now work as a lawyer in the law firm of Mr. A.A.D.A. Carlo N.V.

This release was sent to lawyers of Aruba via the association of attorneys of Aruba, Orde van Advocaten. If there is one or more lawyers who could have another reason to go against this petition, for van der Sloot to be sworn in as a lawyer to work in Aruba, then they have to send their reaction before January 11, 2005, according to a copy of the letter from the Orde van Advocaten, but in this case the case should be January 11, 2006, not 2005.
Public Prosecutor
Petition to the public related to Holloway case

DIARIO Aruba
01/11/2006

ORANJESTAD(AAN): Tuesday, the Public Prosecutor send a press release to all media, with a request for those who know something in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway to come forward with information.

The release said that the team in charge of the investigation in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has a strong suspicion that the young woman in question lost her life as a consequence of a punishable offence committed against her.

It is also the team’s opinion that there could be people who have not gone to police with possible information on the case, due to the massive attention the case has received. It could be that because of this, people have doubted whether they have to give a declaration or not.

By means of this release, the investigative team is making a petition for all people who could have information related to this case to contact police at xxx-xxxx [number in article].

The team guarantees that all persons who call will be communicated directly with Commissioner Dompig and that they will remain anonymous.