Natalee Holloway case stressfully continues
Dutch experts conclude ‘Dr. Phil’ tape ‘doctored’
Aruba Today
11/25/2005
ORANJESTAD – The island of Aruba continues to grieve with the mother and family of the missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
The most recent update includes forensic investigators in Holland having found that someone altered a taped interview in which a Surinamese man allegedly claimed to have had sex with a U.S. teen who disappeared while visiting Aruba, the island’s police chief said Wednesday.
The tape was an interview with Deepak Kalpoe in July of this year by an investigator Jamie Skeeters hired by the U.S. television program, the “Dr. Phil” show. In it, Deepak allegedly claimed to have had sex with Natalee Holloway,
an Alabama honors student, before she disappeared in May.
The findings of the investigator were never revealed to the Aruban authorities until after Dr. Phil had the missing teen’s mother Beth Twitty on his program 2 months after the alleged confession.
The Aruban Authorities stated after hearing of the Dr. Phil show in early September of this year, that none of the suspects had admitted at any time of having sex with the missing teen and that this confession collected by Dr.
Phil’s team would be a critical piece of information to the investigation. The Aruban Authorities were surprised that such an important piece of evidence could be withheld for 2 months, and then presented on a talk show before turning
it in as evidence to the case.
It took a month to receive the original DVDs from the investigator and then were sent to Holland for verification. “The tapes played on U.S. television appear to have been altered to suggest Deepak admitted to a sexual act, our forensic investigators tell us, the original tape did not say that,” Gerald Dompig, the chief of police for this Dutch Caribbean island, said in a statement.
On the tape, Deepak allegedly says Holloway “dressed like a slut,” and that he, his brother, Satish, and Dutch national Joran van der Sloot had sex with Holloway, who would have turned 19 in October.
“I have reviewed the findings of the Forensic Institute in Holland ... those results state that the tapes were not authentic in regard to statement made by Deepak
Kalpoe,” Dompig said.
A spokesman for the “Dr. Phil” show had no immediate comment.
“We have asked the FBI to review the same tapes to corroborate the conclusion reached by our Dutch forensic investigators,” the statement said.
Holloway was last seen early on May 30 leaving a bar with van der Sloot and Surinamese Kalpoe brothers. They were arrested on June 9 but released after a court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold them.
Island-wide Searches of the island failed to find the missing teenager.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley has called for a travel boycott of the island because of how the case was handled.
Holloway’s family accuse the island’s government of not fully cooperating with the investigation into her disappearance.
Aruban officials have criticized the boycott, disputing charges the case was mishandled.
Gov. Riley has sent letters to his fellow governors across the country, urging them to support his boycott of Aruba on behalf of the family of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
In the letters, Riley blames the Aruban government for what he called “missteps, miscommunication and inconsistencies” plaguing the investigation into the 18-yearold’s disappearance.
Holloway, of suburban Birmingham, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men from Aruba during a high school graduation trip to the island May 30. Each of the three was later taken into custody but has since been released.
Riley, in his letter sent last Friday, said Aruban authorities are no longer communicating with Holloway’s family and are not providing information about the status of the investigation.
Holloway’s family initially praised Aruban authorities for their work on the case, but they recently turned critical, alleging incompetence and conflicts of interest.
The boycott has failed to get support from the U.S. State Department.
Jeff Emerson, Riley’s communications director, said this week that the governor had not yet received any feedback from the other governors.
[English language original text]
11.26.2005
Official release of Strategic Communications Task Force
A.M. Digital
11/26/2005
Referring to the support proposal of mrs. Lisa Chiafullo, an American citizen, in which she asks to boycott mrs. Beth Twitty in the US communication media; and considering that mrs. Chiafullo’s initiative became known in Aruba, the Strategic Communications Task Force (SCTF) wishes to clarify its positions by means of this release.
SCTF appreciates all those that provide support to safeguard the good name of Aruba. Although we support the intention behind some of mrs. Chiafullo’s expressions of the last few days, we maintain our position that the focus must remain on the investigation efforts that are done in an orderly manner and according to the legal process which is based on real facts. We trust fully that justice will prevail and that it will serve the interests of our island. We prefer to have this position instead of calls for equal time in the media or calls for boycotting Natalee’s family.
Since the beginning SCTF has maintained its objective to assure that the truth, based on solid information, is distributed to all that are involved and/or interested in the case of disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We feel that it is imperative that the Investigation Team can continue with their investigations, that are still ongoing, in order to solve this case.
[English language original text]
A.M. Digital
11/26/2005
Referring to the support proposal of mrs. Lisa Chiafullo, an American citizen, in which she asks to boycott mrs. Beth Twitty in the US communication media; and considering that mrs. Chiafullo’s initiative became known in Aruba, the Strategic Communications Task Force (SCTF) wishes to clarify its positions by means of this release.
SCTF appreciates all those that provide support to safeguard the good name of Aruba. Although we support the intention behind some of mrs. Chiafullo’s expressions of the last few days, we maintain our position that the focus must remain on the investigation efforts that are done in an orderly manner and according to the legal process which is based on real facts. We trust fully that justice will prevail and that it will serve the interests of our island. We prefer to have this position instead of calls for equal time in the media or calls for boycotting Natalee’s family.
Since the beginning SCTF has maintained its objective to assure that the truth, based on solid information, is distributed to all that are involved and/or interested in the case of disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We feel that it is imperative that the Investigation Team can continue with their investigations, that are still ongoing, in order to solve this case.
[English language original text]
11.25.2005
According to ATIA release
Dr. Phil was accused of sexual abuse
DIARIO Aruba
11/24/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, Aruba Trade & Industry Association (ATIA) put out a press released about the Governor of Alabama.
Bob Riley asked for a boycott against Aruba, were he said that we in Aruba understand the pain of Natalee Holloway’s mother, however, the Governor in this way took a decision that will affect the lives of millions of people, cannot take decisions on the basis of a sad mother’s emotions.
He has to better inform himself, before threatening the livelihoods of 100,000 people in Aruba.
The release also says that ATIA strongly condemns the irresponsible and unprofessional declarations made by Bob Riley.
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, also followed the petition of the Governor and asked for a boycott of Aruba.
His show only portrayed one side of the story of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, without trying to find out the correct facts.
The former therapist stopped giving therapy in 1989, after the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists publicly pulled his attention.
This was due to the fact that he was under accusations of sexual abuse.
[ed. false allegations - read the real story here]
The accusation was on the part of a former patient of Dr. Phil, after which Dr. Phil was placed under supervision. He had to undergo physical and psychological tests, as well as follow ethics lessons.
Dr. Phil also found himself under cases of damages and prejudice against his person by the unjust imprisonment [ed. case dismissed without prejudice] of Laurie Bembenek [ed. convicted killer], while he also owed private jet bills of $132,962.
ATIA continues to say that while they don’t give much value to Dr. Phil’s opinions, all this has a negative effect for Aruba, given that millions of people watch his show.
They also say that doing harm to Aruba will not help solve this case.
ATIA also said in its release that they have full confidence in the police corps and the prosecution’s office that are working on the case, given that our legal system has showed for long years that it is the best in the world.
[translated by Getagrip]
Dr. Phil was accused of sexual abuse
DIARIO Aruba
11/24/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, Aruba Trade & Industry Association (ATIA) put out a press released about the Governor of Alabama.
Bob Riley asked for a boycott against Aruba, were he said that we in Aruba understand the pain of Natalee Holloway’s mother, however, the Governor in this way took a decision that will affect the lives of millions of people, cannot take decisions on the basis of a sad mother’s emotions.
He has to better inform himself, before threatening the livelihoods of 100,000 people in Aruba.
The release also says that ATIA strongly condemns the irresponsible and unprofessional declarations made by Bob Riley.
Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, also followed the petition of the Governor and asked for a boycott of Aruba.
His show only portrayed one side of the story of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, without trying to find out the correct facts.
The former therapist stopped giving therapy in 1989, after the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists publicly pulled his attention.
This was due to the fact that he was under accusations of sexual abuse.
[ed. false allegations - read the real story here]
The accusation was on the part of a former patient of Dr. Phil, after which Dr. Phil was placed under supervision. He had to undergo physical and psychological tests, as well as follow ethics lessons.
Dr. Phil also found himself under cases of damages and prejudice against his person by the unjust imprisonment [ed. case dismissed without prejudice] of Laurie Bembenek [ed. convicted killer], while he also owed private jet bills of $132,962.
ATIA continues to say that while they don’t give much value to Dr. Phil’s opinions, all this has a negative effect for Aruba, given that millions of people watch his show.
They also say that doing harm to Aruba will not help solve this case.
ATIA also said in its release that they have full confidence in the police corps and the prosecution’s office that are working on the case, given that our legal system has showed for long years that it is the best in the world.
[translated by Getagrip]
FBI recording was not the correct one
Dr. Phil manipulated the recording used in his program
DIARIO Aruba
11/24/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): In the afternoon hours of yesterday, authorities in Aruba received the results of the investigation authorities in Holland conducted on two tapes recorded in an illegal manner where one of the Kalpoe brothers gave one or more declarations.
These declarations arrived to the hands of Dr. Phil who took these and played with them so that declarations are such that they implicate the Kalpoe suspect in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Everything started when a private detective by the last name of Skeeters was able to convince one of the Kalpoe brothers to go to his hotel room where they had everything prepared with a hidden camera in such a way that they did an illegal recording which afterwards was aired on the Dr. Phil show.
On the basis of telling one of the Kalpoe brothers that he wanted to do a movie on the whole case, where the Kalpoe brother will become famous, the trap was set because the latter didn’t know that he was dealing with a private detective paid for by Natalee’s family.
After the recording was passed, the FBI obtained a copy of what was aired on the Dr. Phil show, whuile local authorities obtained the original recording that private detective Skeeters gave to Dr. Phil and no one touched.
Both were sent to Holland, when yesterday in the afternoon hours the results came that the tape used on the Dr. Phil show was manipulated.
This will surely become something which will lower Dr. Phil’s credibility and worse still that now there is an action by an American citizen who has decided to boycott Beth Twitty, is showing the other side of the coin related to the whole case of Natalee that Beth is using for another objective.
[translated by Getagrip]
Dr. Phil manipulated the recording used in his program
DIARIO Aruba
11/24/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): In the afternoon hours of yesterday, authorities in Aruba received the results of the investigation authorities in Holland conducted on two tapes recorded in an illegal manner where one of the Kalpoe brothers gave one or more declarations.
These declarations arrived to the hands of Dr. Phil who took these and played with them so that declarations are such that they implicate the Kalpoe suspect in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Everything started when a private detective by the last name of Skeeters was able to convince one of the Kalpoe brothers to go to his hotel room where they had everything prepared with a hidden camera in such a way that they did an illegal recording which afterwards was aired on the Dr. Phil show.
On the basis of telling one of the Kalpoe brothers that he wanted to do a movie on the whole case, where the Kalpoe brother will become famous, the trap was set because the latter didn’t know that he was dealing with a private detective paid for by Natalee’s family.
After the recording was passed, the FBI obtained a copy of what was aired on the Dr. Phil show, whuile local authorities obtained the original recording that private detective Skeeters gave to Dr. Phil and no one touched.
Both were sent to Holland, when yesterday in the afternoon hours the results came that the tape used on the Dr. Phil show was manipulated.
This will surely become something which will lower Dr. Phil’s credibility and worse still that now there is an action by an American citizen who has decided to boycott Beth Twitty, is showing the other side of the coin related to the whole case of Natalee that Beth is using for another objective.
[translated by Getagrip]
Dr. Phil showed altered video tape
A.M. Digital
11/25/2005
In this press release the Public Prosecutor’s Office provides the official results of the investigation done by the Dutch Forensic Institute. This Institute investigated the tapes in which a suspect in the N. Holloway case talks with a private investigator on tape. This interview was later shown in a couple of television programmes.
The Dutch Forensic Institute analyzed and compared a video-cd of the private investigator and a tape provided by the FBI which had the interview with the suspect on it with the interview with the suspect that was shown in the programmes of Dr Phil and Rita Cosby.
The results of this investigation are as follows. There are no differences between the interview with the suspect D.K. as shown in the video-cd of the private investigator and the tape provided by the FBI. There are also no indications that manipulation of the images took place.
The Dutch Forensic Institute also concluded that in the case of the interview shown in the programmes of Dr. Phil and Rita Cosby the images were manipulated. These images differ from the ones in the video-cd and tape provided by the FBI.
Editor’s note: The conclusion obviously is that the interview with Depak Kalpoe that was aired on the Dr. Phil show recently, with Beth Twitty present, was not the original interview as Dr. Phil and his investigator Skeeters pretended it to be. The tape was tampered with and altered to let it appear that Kalpoe said something that in reality he did not. How low can you go, Dr. Phil? And…..was Beth Twitty aware of this violation of privacy?
[English language original text]
A.M. Digital
11/25/2005
In this press release the Public Prosecutor’s Office provides the official results of the investigation done by the Dutch Forensic Institute. This Institute investigated the tapes in which a suspect in the N. Holloway case talks with a private investigator on tape. This interview was later shown in a couple of television programmes.
The Dutch Forensic Institute analyzed and compared a video-cd of the private investigator and a tape provided by the FBI which had the interview with the suspect on it with the interview with the suspect that was shown in the programmes of Dr Phil and Rita Cosby.
The results of this investigation are as follows. There are no differences between the interview with the suspect D.K. as shown in the video-cd of the private investigator and the tape provided by the FBI. There are also no indications that manipulation of the images took place.
The Dutch Forensic Institute also concluded that in the case of the interview shown in the programmes of Dr. Phil and Rita Cosby the images were manipulated. These images differ from the ones in the video-cd and tape provided by the FBI.
Editor’s note: The conclusion obviously is that the interview with Depak Kalpoe that was aired on the Dr. Phil show recently, with Beth Twitty present, was not the original interview as Dr. Phil and his investigator Skeeters pretended it to be. The tape was tampered with and altered to let it appear that Kalpoe said something that in reality he did not. How low can you go, Dr. Phil? And…..was Beth Twitty aware of this violation of privacy?
[English language original text]
11.24.2005
Behold the “bla bla bla they are speaking about Jossy” which was published November 17 2005...in Birmingham, Alabama
Solo di Pueblo
11/23/2005
STA. CRUZ – When we said that sooner or later things would backfire on certain Arubans who are greatly cooperating with Beth and Jug, we knew that God was dressed in pajamas but He wasn’t asleep. An article that was published in an Alabama newspaper didn’t speak too well about Aruba. The newspaper in question received a note from the B&W Travel Guide which didn’t see the necessity of traveling to Aruba. Not because there was a boycott called, but for the simple fact that Aruba has nothing to offer.
The B&W Travel Guide called Aruba all sorts of things e.g. banana republic, a corrupt island, a pollution filled environment, a second image of Haiti and so on. What is most highlighted in this article is a summary of a CIA report that doesn’t paint Aruba in a good light where TNI researchers speak about it between the years of 1997 and 2000.
The B&W Travel Guide also spoke of an Aruban who has appeared on American TV screens, and “guess who” they spoke of…ladies and gentlemen, no other than Jossy “bla bla bla” Mansur…behold the proof…
Many of us are remember still that between the years 1997 and 2000, National Security under the direction of Martin Ras, sent a scream to Holland when he took notice of the corrupt and disastrous issues for Aruba at the highest levels of government. More still when Aruba was put on the list of High Risk Regions by U.S. president Bill Clinton.
Names were mentioned and Mansur was among these. Now that Jossy believes that Americans have forgotten, they see the issue against Aruba in its totality and not only against Jossy Mansur.
The B&W Travel Guide expanded a lot on the CIA report which was published by the TNI researchers for Tom Blinkman. A name that Jossy never risks to contradict for his communications.
Today behold Jossy’s same shameful face because the newspaper of Birmingham Alabama, Naked Birmingham, where Beth and Jug Twitty live, did not hesitate to show the fantastic history of Aruba where Jossy’s name appears.
Even Naked Birmigham is of the opinion that Jossy is doing this via international media to spit his vengeance on local authorities and justice officials. If ‘bla bla bla’ Jossy wants to call this then start thinking what they think of him every time that he appears on TV programs. What stands out most is that this article was published on websites where the same Jossy Mansur let his Diario articles be translated. One of them is scaredmonkeys.com.
Check it out. By the way, Jossy, your editorial seemed like whining!!
Congratulations on your achievement, Jossy!
[translated by Getagrip]
Solo di Pueblo
11/23/2005
STA. CRUZ – When we said that sooner or later things would backfire on certain Arubans who are greatly cooperating with Beth and Jug, we knew that God was dressed in pajamas but He wasn’t asleep. An article that was published in an Alabama newspaper didn’t speak too well about Aruba. The newspaper in question received a note from the B&W Travel Guide which didn’t see the necessity of traveling to Aruba. Not because there was a boycott called, but for the simple fact that Aruba has nothing to offer.
The B&W Travel Guide called Aruba all sorts of things e.g. banana republic, a corrupt island, a pollution filled environment, a second image of Haiti and so on. What is most highlighted in this article is a summary of a CIA report that doesn’t paint Aruba in a good light where TNI researchers speak about it between the years of 1997 and 2000.
The B&W Travel Guide also spoke of an Aruban who has appeared on American TV screens, and “guess who” they spoke of…ladies and gentlemen, no other than Jossy “bla bla bla” Mansur…behold the proof…
Publishers Notebook
By Chuck Geiss
November 17, 2005
Boycott Aruba? As much as our community aches for the parents, relatives, and friends of Natalee Holloway, the decision to have Governor Bob Riley call for a national boycott of the Caribbean island places the state of Alabama in an unnecessary and rather embarrassing spotlight.
First, the decision appears to be politically rooted; Riley will soon be running for reelection in 2006. Secondly, there are approximately 1,000 missing persons in our state, almost 40 percent of them adolescents, and crime rates in our own cities and towns make Riley’s grandstanding hypocritical.
Third, his hopes to attract enough attention for a national boycott will not happen.
The State Department immediately rebuffed his proposal for an official statement, and it is uncertain if any number of his fellow governors will follow suit. Plus, most boycotts simply don’t work.
Today, the Mansur family is considered to be the largest player on the island.
Many people I spoke to during my visit agree that few things happen on the island without their approval. Jossy Mansur, the editor of the island’s daily newspaper, Diario, has been a familiar face on cable news channels for the last six months despite the fact that his newspaper prints sensational stories about the Holloway case based on sketchy “inside” information that is less than credible. In fact, much of the information printed in his newspaper regarding
Holloway’s disappearance has simply not been factual.
Many believe, as I do, that Mansur is taking advantage of the Holloway case by utilizing the international media to drive his own personal political agenda against local officials. Up to now, Greta Van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera, and others have foolishly played into his game.
Many of us are remember still that between the years 1997 and 2000, National Security under the direction of Martin Ras, sent a scream to Holland when he took notice of the corrupt and disastrous issues for Aruba at the highest levels of government. More still when Aruba was put on the list of High Risk Regions by U.S. president Bill Clinton.
Names were mentioned and Mansur was among these. Now that Jossy believes that Americans have forgotten, they see the issue against Aruba in its totality and not only against Jossy Mansur.
The B&W Travel Guide expanded a lot on the CIA report which was published by the TNI researchers for Tom Blinkman. A name that Jossy never risks to contradict for his communications.
Today behold Jossy’s same shameful face because the newspaper of Birmingham Alabama, Naked Birmingham, where Beth and Jug Twitty live, did not hesitate to show the fantastic history of Aruba where Jossy’s name appears.
Even Naked Birmigham is of the opinion that Jossy is doing this via international media to spit his vengeance on local authorities and justice officials. If ‘bla bla bla’ Jossy wants to call this then start thinking what they think of him every time that he appears on TV programs. What stands out most is that this article was published on websites where the same Jossy Mansur let his Diario articles be translated. One of them is scaredmonkeys.com.
Check it out. By the way, Jossy, your editorial seemed like whining!!
Congratulations on your achievement, Jossy!
[translated by Getagrip]
11.23.2005
No solid data on damage yet
According to Minister of Tourism effects of Holloway case on Aruba have to be measured
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) – DIARIO interviewed Minister of Tourism and Public Transport Edison Briesen, related to the boycott called against Aruba by Governor of Alabama and Mrs. Beth Twitty, and asked him if our country is feeling its effects. Minister Briesen’s reply was that to deny this is a reality would be dishonest to us.
“Because we have a Task Force that was set up from the beginning of this matter, they started with the case of the disappearance of this young lady. We set up a group on this side for us to evaluate the damage of this, and little by little we have seen that this came upon us, and we have also seen that Mrs. Twitty asked the Governor of Alabama Mr. Bob Riley to go ahead with a boycott. We also mobilized our colleagues in Holland so that they also work on our behalf on a political and diplomatic level”, the mandatory indicated.
Given that there was another governor who also wanted a boycott and postponed this, according to the mandatory the Task Force is doing a good job but they remain with the lack of confidence in the team which has investigated from the beginning the disappearance of Natalee, and this is a difficult position that the government and the people of Aruba cannot change their minds about.
“Even in the last visit of the lady, she sent a letter where she requested that if we could modify or change the group who is conducting the investigation and try to bring forth another investigative group. We told her that the Office of the Attorney General is autonomous and they put in place the team who will investigate, because she asked for people who she believes can assist in this case, according to the mandatory.
Also, the dignitary said that he can see that also in Parliament the petition was made by a member of State, if the government can support the petition of Mrs. Twitty, given that the many people think that here in Aruba there were perhaps things that were not taken care of, like many other people outside of the Prosecutorial Corps believe how the investigation had to take place.
The government still hasn’t done a survey of room occupancy and flights to Aruba, and this is research that they are going to do. But a little time ago, the government had its annual meeting with the top agencies that sell Aruba in America and in what deals with the traditional market that produces tourists to Aruba, they said that they have not felt any effect and that perhaps Aruba is little promotion or none at all in other states that don’t know Aruba in the same way a big group who comes to Aruba annually do and that perhaps with them the matter has had an effect.
The dignitary indicated that the government is taking care of this matter with all diligence, and is not waiting for results to come to Aruba with its hands crossed, to correct the damage that this situation could cause, but has to be prevented for this matter not to escalate.
How big the effect will be, the government doesn’t know still and according the Minister, AHATA will do a survey of its members to see if this case truly will have consequences for Aruba, in what pertains of the influx of tourism from December until the end of high season.
[translated by Getagrip]
According to Minister of Tourism effects of Holloway case on Aruba have to be measured
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) – DIARIO interviewed Minister of Tourism and Public Transport Edison Briesen, related to the boycott called against Aruba by Governor of Alabama and Mrs. Beth Twitty, and asked him if our country is feeling its effects. Minister Briesen’s reply was that to deny this is a reality would be dishonest to us.
“Because we have a Task Force that was set up from the beginning of this matter, they started with the case of the disappearance of this young lady. We set up a group on this side for us to evaluate the damage of this, and little by little we have seen that this came upon us, and we have also seen that Mrs. Twitty asked the Governor of Alabama Mr. Bob Riley to go ahead with a boycott. We also mobilized our colleagues in Holland so that they also work on our behalf on a political and diplomatic level”, the mandatory indicated.
Given that there was another governor who also wanted a boycott and postponed this, according to the mandatory the Task Force is doing a good job but they remain with the lack of confidence in the team which has investigated from the beginning the disappearance of Natalee, and this is a difficult position that the government and the people of Aruba cannot change their minds about.
“Even in the last visit of the lady, she sent a letter where she requested that if we could modify or change the group who is conducting the investigation and try to bring forth another investigative group. We told her that the Office of the Attorney General is autonomous and they put in place the team who will investigate, because she asked for people who she believes can assist in this case, according to the mandatory.
Also, the dignitary said that he can see that also in Parliament the petition was made by a member of State, if the government can support the petition of Mrs. Twitty, given that the many people think that here in Aruba there were perhaps things that were not taken care of, like many other people outside of the Prosecutorial Corps believe how the investigation had to take place.
The government still hasn’t done a survey of room occupancy and flights to Aruba, and this is research that they are going to do. But a little time ago, the government had its annual meeting with the top agencies that sell Aruba in America and in what deals with the traditional market that produces tourists to Aruba, they said that they have not felt any effect and that perhaps Aruba is little promotion or none at all in other states that don’t know Aruba in the same way a big group who comes to Aruba annually do and that perhaps with them the matter has had an effect.
The dignitary indicated that the government is taking care of this matter with all diligence, and is not waiting for results to come to Aruba with its hands crossed, to correct the damage that this situation could cause, but has to be prevented for this matter not to escalate.
How big the effect will be, the government doesn’t know still and according the Minister, AHATA will do a survey of its members to see if this case truly will have consequences for Aruba, in what pertains of the influx of tourism from December until the end of high season.
[translated by Getagrip]
Rainbow Warriors International proposes campaing
Stop the boycott against Aruba with lawsuits in the U.S.
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, a possibly boycott by the environmental organization was cancelled by a contract signed by Bouldin and Lawson.
Contrary to what Minister Wever insinuated, Rainbow Warriors International is working in the general interest of Aruba and the rest of the world. This is what Milton Ponson declared last Tuesday night to DIARIO.
The word was that organizations from abroad with the contract of Bouldin an Lawson will be dealt with in House of Commons in Holland and that they will use country regulation publicity of governing board in Aruba and Law publicity of governing board in Holland to bring out ALL documents to the public.
Contrary to what Minister President Nel Oduber wants, giving only ‘for inspection’ document, our organization is of the opinion that the members of parliament of Aruba have every right to demand and obtain copies of ALL documents so that they can control the executive power.
Otherwise, it is then MEP and Minister President Nel Oduber and his cabinet that are rightly managing a banana republic and are giving all the American media who are supporting the boycott called by Governor Riley and Beth Twitty, good reason to call our country corrupt.
According to Ponson, their organization supports a conversation with Mr. Jaap Baujon, member of the Strategic Communication Task Force and offers their services free of charge to help disarm the boycott called against Aruba.
Rainbow Warriors International has ample experience on the topic of boycotts and contrary to what the human rights expert Mrs. Henriquez, the lawyer incorrectly said that any person, group or organization can call a boycott, which in essence is a call for consumers to NOT purchase certain products or services, in the case of Aruba the product is the trip and stay in Aruba.
An economic sanction IS what the United Nations General Assembly can enact against a country. Because of this, any attempt on the part of the Aruban community to let the United Nations intervene is useless, given that we are dealing with a ‘consumer boycott’.
We are in agreement with Mr. Bob DiLella, political consultant of the MEP party, who declared in an article published on November 21, 2005 in Amigoe, that we have to become more aggressive.
To take away Beth Twitty’s strength, her defamation campaign has to be attacked as much as the media who support it as with elected officials, for example governor Bob Riley of Alabama.
Litigation is underway now, where a lawsuit has been initiated, given that among others, Dr. Phil indicated that he is NOT interested in giving the opportunity for ‘rebuttal’, and he isn’t either interested in ‘fair and accurate news coverage’.
It would be good for everyone to realize who Phillip McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is.
He is co-founder of Courtroom Sciences Inc., a company of litigation consultants which helps big companies that appear on the famous Fortune 500 list, to win cases in court.
It is Dr. Phil’s company who saved Exxon Mobil from paying an insurance claim of more than USD$600 million for the biggest petroleum leak in Alaska’s history with its Exxon Valdez.
It was Dr. Phil who saved Oprah Winfrey’s skin, when she had a multi-million dollar lawsuit against her, after Oprah Winfrey proposed to stop eating beef, due to the risk of mad cow disease.
Undoubtedly, Dr. Phil’s company is assisting Mrs. Twitty in the background. The time has come to grab the bull by the horns and stop pretending that this issue will disappear.
Our opinion as an organization with experience in the boycott arena is to declare that all signs point to this being simply the ‘warm-up phase’. If the MEP government and others want to be political ostriches (with their heads in the sand) ALL in Aruba end up harmed.
Enough with pretty letters to Minister Bot, protests at the Plaza Betico Croes and Open Letters in the press. It is time to act!!! Ponson proposes lawsuits against the media who do not want to provide us with rebuttals and/or fair and accurate news coverage.
[translated by Getagrip]
Stop the boycott against Aruba with lawsuits in the U.S.
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, a possibly boycott by the environmental organization was cancelled by a contract signed by Bouldin and Lawson.
Contrary to what Minister Wever insinuated, Rainbow Warriors International is working in the general interest of Aruba and the rest of the world. This is what Milton Ponson declared last Tuesday night to DIARIO.
The word was that organizations from abroad with the contract of Bouldin an Lawson will be dealt with in House of Commons in Holland and that they will use country regulation publicity of governing board in Aruba and Law publicity of governing board in Holland to bring out ALL documents to the public.
Contrary to what Minister President Nel Oduber wants, giving only ‘for inspection’ document, our organization is of the opinion that the members of parliament of Aruba have every right to demand and obtain copies of ALL documents so that they can control the executive power.
Otherwise, it is then MEP and Minister President Nel Oduber and his cabinet that are rightly managing a banana republic and are giving all the American media who are supporting the boycott called by Governor Riley and Beth Twitty, good reason to call our country corrupt.
According to Ponson, their organization supports a conversation with Mr. Jaap Baujon, member of the Strategic Communication Task Force and offers their services free of charge to help disarm the boycott called against Aruba.
Rainbow Warriors International has ample experience on the topic of boycotts and contrary to what the human rights expert Mrs. Henriquez, the lawyer incorrectly said that any person, group or organization can call a boycott, which in essence is a call for consumers to NOT purchase certain products or services, in the case of Aruba the product is the trip and stay in Aruba.
An economic sanction IS what the United Nations General Assembly can enact against a country. Because of this, any attempt on the part of the Aruban community to let the United Nations intervene is useless, given that we are dealing with a ‘consumer boycott’.
We are in agreement with Mr. Bob DiLella, political consultant of the MEP party, who declared in an article published on November 21, 2005 in Amigoe, that we have to become more aggressive.
To take away Beth Twitty’s strength, her defamation campaign has to be attacked as much as the media who support it as with elected officials, for example governor Bob Riley of Alabama.
Litigation is underway now, where a lawsuit has been initiated, given that among others, Dr. Phil indicated that he is NOT interested in giving the opportunity for ‘rebuttal’, and he isn’t either interested in ‘fair and accurate news coverage’.
It would be good for everyone to realize who Phillip McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is.
He is co-founder of Courtroom Sciences Inc., a company of litigation consultants which helps big companies that appear on the famous Fortune 500 list, to win cases in court.
It is Dr. Phil’s company who saved Exxon Mobil from paying an insurance claim of more than USD$600 million for the biggest petroleum leak in Alaska’s history with its Exxon Valdez.
It was Dr. Phil who saved Oprah Winfrey’s skin, when she had a multi-million dollar lawsuit against her, after Oprah Winfrey proposed to stop eating beef, due to the risk of mad cow disease.
Undoubtedly, Dr. Phil’s company is assisting Mrs. Twitty in the background. The time has come to grab the bull by the horns and stop pretending that this issue will disappear.
Our opinion as an organization with experience in the boycott arena is to declare that all signs point to this being simply the ‘warm-up phase’. If the MEP government and others want to be political ostriches (with their heads in the sand) ALL in Aruba end up harmed.
Enough with pretty letters to Minister Bot, protests at the Plaza Betico Croes and Open Letters in the press. It is time to act!!! Ponson proposes lawsuits against the media who do not want to provide us with rebuttals and/or fair and accurate news coverage.
[translated by Getagrip]
American lady gets angry and starts a boycott against Beth Twitty
Lisa was engaged to a known movie actor
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): On Tuesday, DIARIO received an email directly from a lady, who showed that she has already started a boycott against Beth Twitty.
The lady is called Lisa, and in an interview with the local radio broadcaster Magic F.M. she explained that she was engaged to the well-known actor Jean Michael Vincent and she was mistreated by the actor until she lost her child.
After this it resulted that due to the mistreatment and the mistreatment that she received from the well known singer Billy Idol, she can no longer have children.
She explained that she endured much sadness due to this and she understands Beth Twitty’s sadness, however, she finds it ridiculous that Beth Twitty and all those who support her have started a boycott against Aruba.
Because of this, Lisa decided to start a boycott against Beth Twitty, and sent a press release and email messages to ask for all people around to the world to boycott Mrs. Twitty.
Lisa said that she laments what Twitty is trying to do with Aruba, after everything Aruba did for her. She said that Mrs. Twitty has to stop interfering in the investigation into the case.
Lisa explains that she finds it very ridiculous and irritating that every night Beth Twitty says the same on TV channels, where she has become good friends with all the hosts of these programs, such as Dr. Phil and Greta van Susteren, who she calls by their first names.
Lisa explains that it is very strange that Mrs. Twitty does not shed any tears and this is very noticeable when comparing Mrs. Twitty to the mother of Amy Bradley, who was along on the Dr. Phil program, where Mrs. Bradley after so many years still cries, while Beth Twitty was sitting as nothing had happened.
Lisa explains that she feels that Beth Twitty wants to profit from this whole ordeal.
Lisa also said that she dares Beth Twitty to start a case against her, given that she has the funds to defend herself if necessary.
[translated by Getagrip]
Requests to boycott Aruba
A.M. Digital
11/23/2005
The Aruba Trade & Industry Association (ATIA) was unpleasantly surprised by Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s call for a boycott against Aruba. Granted, the former real estate agent’s influence on the opinions of people beyond the state’s borders is negligible, but even a small negative impact on our island’s small and vulnerable economy would be most regrettable, especially if this might cause financial hardship on hard working Aruba families.
We understand that the mother of Natalee Holloway cannot help but be emotional. Any mother of a missing girl would be overcome by emotion. We consider this perfectly acceptable. What does disturb us is that a Governor of a state, whose decisions affect the lives of millions of people, allows himself to make decisions based on the emotions felt by a grieving mother.
People in positions of power and authority should hold themselves to higher standards and should base their decisions on facts and logic. Governor Riley should have made serious attempts to get complete and correct information before threatening the livelihood of 100,000 good and hard-working people.
The fact that Birmingham, Alabama was just ranked the 10th most dangerous city in the entire USA, underscores the fact that Governor Riley is trying to divert attention away from his obvious failures in serving his constituency.
ATIA strongly condemns Governor Riley’s irresponsible and unprofessional declarations. We feel that it is most regrettable that a person who is supposed to govern his passions and practice virtue would allow himself to use a small and vulnerable island as a pawn in his bid for reelection.
The call by Governor Riley was followed by another such call by Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, alias “Dr. Phil”. Dr. Phil’s show, which caters to the daytime TV audience, presented a flawed and biased picture of the events surrounding Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. The show also failed to make any efforts whatsoever to get the facts.
Lawsuits over unlawful imprisonment (by Laurie Bembenek) [ed. convicted killer Laurie Bembenek] and unpaid corporate jet bills (US$135,962 worth!) only serve to further undermine the credibility of this “holier-than-thou” individual.
While we do not hold “Dr’ Phil’s” opinions in high regard, we do recognize that his daytime talk show is watched by millions of people around the World, some of which might actually pay heed to his call for a boycott against our beautiful and safe island.
It should be obvious to any intelligent person that hurting the people of Aruba will not help in solving this case.
ATIA has complete confidence in our police department and our prosecution department in the handling of this case. We are proud of our justice system which, over the years, has proven itself to be second to none.
We are also proud of the Aruba people for continuing to support Natalee Holloway’s family in their efforts to find out what happened, and to see justice done in case a crime was indeed committed. We must all continue to be courteous and show the famous Aruba hospitality to all of our guests from abroad, especially to our American guests that choose to visit our island in spite of calls for a boycott.
[English language original text]
A.M. Digital
11/23/2005
The Aruba Trade & Industry Association (ATIA) was unpleasantly surprised by Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s call for a boycott against Aruba. Granted, the former real estate agent’s influence on the opinions of people beyond the state’s borders is negligible, but even a small negative impact on our island’s small and vulnerable economy would be most regrettable, especially if this might cause financial hardship on hard working Aruba families.
We understand that the mother of Natalee Holloway cannot help but be emotional. Any mother of a missing girl would be overcome by emotion. We consider this perfectly acceptable. What does disturb us is that a Governor of a state, whose decisions affect the lives of millions of people, allows himself to make decisions based on the emotions felt by a grieving mother.
People in positions of power and authority should hold themselves to higher standards and should base their decisions on facts and logic. Governor Riley should have made serious attempts to get complete and correct information before threatening the livelihood of 100,000 good and hard-working people.
The fact that Birmingham, Alabama was just ranked the 10th most dangerous city in the entire USA, underscores the fact that Governor Riley is trying to divert attention away from his obvious failures in serving his constituency.
ATIA strongly condemns Governor Riley’s irresponsible and unprofessional declarations. We feel that it is most regrettable that a person who is supposed to govern his passions and practice virtue would allow himself to use a small and vulnerable island as a pawn in his bid for reelection.
The call by Governor Riley was followed by another such call by Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, alias “Dr. Phil”. Dr. Phil’s show, which caters to the daytime TV audience, presented a flawed and biased picture of the events surrounding Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. The show also failed to make any efforts whatsoever to get the facts.
The former therapist quit his practice in 1989, shortly after being publicly reprimanded by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, a move not taken lightly by that supervisory body. The reprimand was a result of an accusation of sexual abuse by a former patient [ed. false: reprimand was for employing a former client], and as a result Mr. McGraw was placed under a year of supervision by a licensed psychologist. In addition he had to complete physical and psychological exams as well as an ethics class.
Lawsuits over unlawful imprisonment (by Laurie Bembenek) [ed. convicted killer Laurie Bembenek] and unpaid corporate jet bills (US$135,962 worth!) only serve to further undermine the credibility of this “holier-than-thou” individual.
While we do not hold “Dr’ Phil’s” opinions in high regard, we do recognize that his daytime talk show is watched by millions of people around the World, some of which might actually pay heed to his call for a boycott against our beautiful and safe island.
It should be obvious to any intelligent person that hurting the people of Aruba will not help in solving this case.
ATIA has complete confidence in our police department and our prosecution department in the handling of this case. We are proud of our justice system which, over the years, has proven itself to be second to none.
We are also proud of the Aruba people for continuing to support Natalee Holloway’s family in their efforts to find out what happened, and to see justice done in case a crime was indeed committed. We must all continue to be courteous and show the famous Aruba hospitality to all of our guests from abroad, especially to our American guests that choose to visit our island in spite of calls for a boycott.
[English language original text]
11.21.2005
Editorial: Natalee and the bla bla bla professors
by Jossy Mansur
DIARIO Aruba
11/21/2005
I didn’t know that in Aruba there were so many professionals who are specialized in bla bla bla, that is to say, those who express their baseless opinions, but what is revealed is their ignorance. There are some media in Aruba who are somewhat politically inclined which have lost notion of reality and which hide the word ‘truth’ behind their forgetfulness.
They can very well continue to wait for a reply from me that will never come, because I am not going to waste time tending to some fanatic blindingly tied to their negative habits of twisting everything and interpreting in their own way what they can’t express or write.
Their sick focus on the case of Natalee has become a pathetic aspect, not because it is difficult to solve, but because of the errors committed and the sentences dictated are obvious to everyone around the world who is aware of them.
It has nothing to do with whether Natalee is alive or not, but with the judge who came from Curaçao who preferred to ignore all the good work that the Aruban police did and the solid presentation of the prosecutor. Are the three suspects guilty or innocent? This will come out because you cannot hide this truth for very long, but sooner or later, it will come to light. On my part, they are innocent if Natalee turns out to be alive!
Some media, addicted to the government of the day converted the case of Natalee into a political circus. We, on the other hand, maintained a posture of looking at the case for what it is, and indicated the factors which came out of the many admissions of the three principal suspects: Joran, Deepak and Satish.
No one has accused them of murder, but they themselves admitted to police during interrogations that something bad happened to Natalee while she was with them, without specifying what ‘something bad’ was! That they admitted to committing sexual abuse against her, is in the admissions they made to the police, also confirmed by the latest videotape by Jamie Skeeters with Deepak, who made important revelations which incriminated all three.
I do not share the opinion that our police agents acted indifferently, or that they intentionally covered up certain details, but I do agree that there were strange things which happened at the beginning of the case that have to be deeply investigated to determine how one or another agent could have diverted, covered or twisted some details which ended up complicating the case more than necessary. My confidence in our agents continues as firm as ever.
It is not extensive that the judge who presided over the case and decided that some things were inadmissible. He could be the best judge in the world, but in this case, he made light of and greatly neglected to pay attention to the three suspects’ admissions, since he didn’t even interrogate them about what was left hanging in the air, such as the declaration of Joran at the beach that he believes that Deepak raped and killed Natalee! How did this matter end there? How were the other accusations and counter-accusations among the three suspects not evaluated for their just content? To say that they are chronic liars is not sufficient; it has to be determined where and how they lied to be able to arrive at the truth.
That Joran is in Holland thanks to the judge? I don’t have a problem with this; where I have a problem is with the official explanation sent to DIARIO from the Justice department specifying that the judge decided to se him free because he expressed his wish to continue with his studies. What will happen if another person in KIA also decides that they want to continue with their studies?
And about the matter of the boycott against Aruba. I have explained on various occasions and on American national media that I am not in agreement with any sort of boycott against our island for any reason.
I have explained to those with a sufficiently open mind to be able to understand, that Aruba has nothing to do with the case, that it is simply the place where it happened, nothing else! Justice is being handled by the Dutch, not by Arubans!
The boycott will be avoided by avoiding crazy statements, imprudent and mismanaged protests and by trying to engage in a dialogue instead of confrontations. We are known around the world as people who are sensible, hospitable and thankful to those who invest in our island and want nothing but good.
Additionally, I am certain that in Aruba we have enough sensible people to intervene and solve the matter in a way that is acceptable for all involved. If we permit that the intention of the boycott continue to grow, then it can become very serious and we all end up losing.
I will let the bla bla bla speakers continue with their subject matter. They exert no influence on me, no matter how many unfounded and unjust attacks are launched against my way of looking at the case, but there is one thing that I will not accept, and that is to tolerate any indirect comment that I could be against the interests of our island.
I have fought a lot and against great forces to defend Aruba; I have confronted countries and contrary interests in our fight for Status Aparte; I have run all sorts of personal risks during the time I fought against the communist current that arrived to Aruba from Grenada and Cuba, propagated by some cell that is still active on our island.
And I continue to be vigilant, now against the current intention to introduce in Aruba a totalitarian way of thinking and acting, in the creation of a sort of government whose negative alliances with neighboring countries, because it will destroy the peace and tranquility which reign on our island.
That I have an enormous respect for Holland? That is categorical! It is not for nothing that I am fighting for us to preserve our Dutch nationality, for us to become part of Europe on our terms, and for us to continue simply rectifying what is wrong in the justice system, which itself is good.
There are some that interpret the system who are deserving of my criticism; not the system itself, which I have categorized on American television as one of the best in the world.
I maintain my opinion, despite that the judge who came from Curaçao to complicate the case and threw it to the wolves. It is through the action of the Dutch judge that the serious problems started for Aruba and it is driving the American national sentiment in a negative direction toward our island.
Look at the problem for what it is, not for what you want to turn it into! It is the sentence of the judge who came from Curaçao which gave rise to the impression that the Dutch justice system is full of holes and open to partial interpretations! And they want to attribute this to Aruba, instead of placing the blame where it should be: in Holland!
[translated by Getagrip]
by Jossy Mansur
DIARIO Aruba
11/21/2005
I didn’t know that in Aruba there were so many professionals who are specialized in bla bla bla, that is to say, those who express their baseless opinions, but what is revealed is their ignorance. There are some media in Aruba who are somewhat politically inclined which have lost notion of reality and which hide the word ‘truth’ behind their forgetfulness.
They can very well continue to wait for a reply from me that will never come, because I am not going to waste time tending to some fanatic blindingly tied to their negative habits of twisting everything and interpreting in their own way what they can’t express or write.
Their sick focus on the case of Natalee has become a pathetic aspect, not because it is difficult to solve, but because of the errors committed and the sentences dictated are obvious to everyone around the world who is aware of them.
It has nothing to do with whether Natalee is alive or not, but with the judge who came from Curaçao who preferred to ignore all the good work that the Aruban police did and the solid presentation of the prosecutor. Are the three suspects guilty or innocent? This will come out because you cannot hide this truth for very long, but sooner or later, it will come to light. On my part, they are innocent if Natalee turns out to be alive!
Some media, addicted to the government of the day converted the case of Natalee into a political circus. We, on the other hand, maintained a posture of looking at the case for what it is, and indicated the factors which came out of the many admissions of the three principal suspects: Joran, Deepak and Satish.
No one has accused them of murder, but they themselves admitted to police during interrogations that something bad happened to Natalee while she was with them, without specifying what ‘something bad’ was! That they admitted to committing sexual abuse against her, is in the admissions they made to the police, also confirmed by the latest videotape by Jamie Skeeters with Deepak, who made important revelations which incriminated all three.
I do not share the opinion that our police agents acted indifferently, or that they intentionally covered up certain details, but I do agree that there were strange things which happened at the beginning of the case that have to be deeply investigated to determine how one or another agent could have diverted, covered or twisted some details which ended up complicating the case more than necessary. My confidence in our agents continues as firm as ever.
It is not extensive that the judge who presided over the case and decided that some things were inadmissible. He could be the best judge in the world, but in this case, he made light of and greatly neglected to pay attention to the three suspects’ admissions, since he didn’t even interrogate them about what was left hanging in the air, such as the declaration of Joran at the beach that he believes that Deepak raped and killed Natalee! How did this matter end there? How were the other accusations and counter-accusations among the three suspects not evaluated for their just content? To say that they are chronic liars is not sufficient; it has to be determined where and how they lied to be able to arrive at the truth.
That Joran is in Holland thanks to the judge? I don’t have a problem with this; where I have a problem is with the official explanation sent to DIARIO from the Justice department specifying that the judge decided to se him free because he expressed his wish to continue with his studies. What will happen if another person in KIA also decides that they want to continue with their studies?
And about the matter of the boycott against Aruba. I have explained on various occasions and on American national media that I am not in agreement with any sort of boycott against our island for any reason.
I have explained to those with a sufficiently open mind to be able to understand, that Aruba has nothing to do with the case, that it is simply the place where it happened, nothing else! Justice is being handled by the Dutch, not by Arubans!
The boycott will be avoided by avoiding crazy statements, imprudent and mismanaged protests and by trying to engage in a dialogue instead of confrontations. We are known around the world as people who are sensible, hospitable and thankful to those who invest in our island and want nothing but good.
Additionally, I am certain that in Aruba we have enough sensible people to intervene and solve the matter in a way that is acceptable for all involved. If we permit that the intention of the boycott continue to grow, then it can become very serious and we all end up losing.
I will let the bla bla bla speakers continue with their subject matter. They exert no influence on me, no matter how many unfounded and unjust attacks are launched against my way of looking at the case, but there is one thing that I will not accept, and that is to tolerate any indirect comment that I could be against the interests of our island.
I have fought a lot and against great forces to defend Aruba; I have confronted countries and contrary interests in our fight for Status Aparte; I have run all sorts of personal risks during the time I fought against the communist current that arrived to Aruba from Grenada and Cuba, propagated by some cell that is still active on our island.
And I continue to be vigilant, now against the current intention to introduce in Aruba a totalitarian way of thinking and acting, in the creation of a sort of government whose negative alliances with neighboring countries, because it will destroy the peace and tranquility which reign on our island.
That I have an enormous respect for Holland? That is categorical! It is not for nothing that I am fighting for us to preserve our Dutch nationality, for us to become part of Europe on our terms, and for us to continue simply rectifying what is wrong in the justice system, which itself is good.
There are some that interpret the system who are deserving of my criticism; not the system itself, which I have categorized on American television as one of the best in the world.
I maintain my opinion, despite that the judge who came from Curaçao to complicate the case and threw it to the wolves. It is through the action of the Dutch judge that the serious problems started for Aruba and it is driving the American national sentiment in a negative direction toward our island.
Look at the problem for what it is, not for what you want to turn it into! It is the sentence of the judge who came from Curaçao which gave rise to the impression that the Dutch justice system is full of holes and open to partial interpretations! And they want to attribute this to Aruba, instead of placing the blame where it should be: in Holland!
[translated by Getagrip]
Aruban casino owner with criminal past goes to America
Joe Mammana is not permitted to enter Aruba due to his past but how did we end up with Mike Posner?
DIARIO Aruba
11/21/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) The case of Natalee is taking other unexpected twists and very negative ones that are going to tarnish Aruba’s image as a safe destination for tourists and investors.
Joe Mammana has a very impressive criminal past in the U.S. but for one reason or another he has found publicity with different cases which have set his image straight and in the case of Natalee, he is trying to find national attention in the US by using sensationalism via the American media.
The government of Aruba recently declared that they will not permit Joe Mammana to enter Aruba.
Related to his past and criminal record, the government took the decision via the Minister of Justice that they cannot let such a person enter Aruba and about this there was information circulating that this Joe person sent a threatening letter to those who were detained in Aruba related to the case of Natalee.
The government’s actions in this case were correct because they cannot let this type of person come to Aruba and believe that they can come do what they see fit on our island, and to boot, Mammana is one of those who is trying, body and soul, to organize an unjust and unjustifiable boycott against Aruba.
What is strange is that the government refuses to let this ex-criminal enter Aruba, but on the other hand, permits another ex-criminal, Mike Posner who is going soon to the U.S. for cases of law violations, to be able to have a business in Aruba, and enter and leave Aruba whenever he wants.
To make matters worse, the person in question, Mike Posner, has been able to obtain a permit to operate a casino, where anyone who wants to have a casino in Aruba and the majority of other countries in the world have to have a clean criminal record.
Recently, this information has started to circulate in the U.S. as well, and seeing that it hasn’t been many days since via the American media false information was given that Aruba is a sort of den for criminals and even terrorists, the matter of the Aruba casino owner with a criminal past in the US, is going to help those who want to implement a total boycott against Aruba.
Wasn’t it in Mike Posner’s casino that the principal suspect in Natalee’s case, Joran van der Sloot, was sitting gambling, despite the fact that he was underage and that never should he have been permitted to enter the casino?
Some weeks back, other media in Aruba came out in vanguard of the ex-criminal Mike Posner and wrote and article that praised Mike Posner for his supposed achievements in Aruba and what interest they had with him, nobody knows.
Now that the government refuses an American ex-criminal entry to Aruba, the government has to justify the reason why until today they continue to permit a person with such a police record such as Mike Posner, can come to set up a business in Aruba, continue to operate his business in Aruba and come and go whenever he wants.
What sort of handling of Justice is there in Aruba and what impact will this case have in the US when the American media start to question the government of Aruba about this matter?
This matter is pending because there are more questionable things here and also the role that certain politicians in Aruba play and continue to play in this matter.
[translated by Getagrip]
Joe Mammana is not permitted to enter Aruba due to his past but how did we end up with Mike Posner?
DIARIO Aruba
11/21/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) The case of Natalee is taking other unexpected twists and very negative ones that are going to tarnish Aruba’s image as a safe destination for tourists and investors.
Joe Mammana has a very impressive criminal past in the U.S. but for one reason or another he has found publicity with different cases which have set his image straight and in the case of Natalee, he is trying to find national attention in the US by using sensationalism via the American media.
The government of Aruba recently declared that they will not permit Joe Mammana to enter Aruba.
Related to his past and criminal record, the government took the decision via the Minister of Justice that they cannot let such a person enter Aruba and about this there was information circulating that this Joe person sent a threatening letter to those who were detained in Aruba related to the case of Natalee.
The government’s actions in this case were correct because they cannot let this type of person come to Aruba and believe that they can come do what they see fit on our island, and to boot, Mammana is one of those who is trying, body and soul, to organize an unjust and unjustifiable boycott against Aruba.
What is strange is that the government refuses to let this ex-criminal enter Aruba, but on the other hand, permits another ex-criminal, Mike Posner who is going soon to the U.S. for cases of law violations, to be able to have a business in Aruba, and enter and leave Aruba whenever he wants.
To make matters worse, the person in question, Mike Posner, has been able to obtain a permit to operate a casino, where anyone who wants to have a casino in Aruba and the majority of other countries in the world have to have a clean criminal record.
Recently, this information has started to circulate in the U.S. as well, and seeing that it hasn’t been many days since via the American media false information was given that Aruba is a sort of den for criminals and even terrorists, the matter of the Aruba casino owner with a criminal past in the US, is going to help those who want to implement a total boycott against Aruba.
Wasn’t it in Mike Posner’s casino that the principal suspect in Natalee’s case, Joran van der Sloot, was sitting gambling, despite the fact that he was underage and that never should he have been permitted to enter the casino?
Some weeks back, other media in Aruba came out in vanguard of the ex-criminal Mike Posner and wrote and article that praised Mike Posner for his supposed achievements in Aruba and what interest they had with him, nobody knows.
Now that the government refuses an American ex-criminal entry to Aruba, the government has to justify the reason why until today they continue to permit a person with such a police record such as Mike Posner, can come to set up a business in Aruba, continue to operate his business in Aruba and come and go whenever he wants.
What sort of handling of Justice is there in Aruba and what impact will this case have in the US when the American media start to question the government of Aruba about this matter?
This matter is pending because there are more questionable things here and also the role that certain politicians in Aruba play and continue to play in this matter.
[translated by Getagrip]
11.19.2005
Due to the Natalee matter
More Arubans encountering difficulties to conduct business abroad
DIARIO Aruba
11/18/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): As DIARIO presented last month, the ‘anti-Aruban’ sentiment continues to grow in the U.S. We showed how in Miami and Las Vegas, there was very ugly treatment against Arubans who are traveling for vacation or for business.
More and more Arubans are starting to identify themselves as “Bonerians” or “Curasoleños” when visiting an American city, because they don’t want to lose time discussing the matter.
DIARIO showed how some persons were not able to get assistance at a store because they said that they were from Aruba. It has also happened that citizens who pay with their credit cards, when showing a piece of ID or passport, and the cashiers, upon seeing that they are from Aruba, refuse to process the transaction.
The Prime Minister of Aruba has gotten details about this from Aruban students who are coming across problems.
There is confirmation of similar cases that are happening not only in America, but also with Aruban merchants traveling to Panama and also in Hong Kong.
One of those in the U.S. who are helping in the boycott, Joe Mammana, even said that he will find any way to force American shipping companies from sending merchandise to Aruba.
This week it became known that an American distributor decided to stop its years-long business relationship in Aruba, as a protest of the manner in which the government handled the matter of Natalee Holloway.
It seems as if the whole world is of the opinion that the government of Aruba, as well as the Justice system of Aruba is good for nothing. They want a change to take place, otherwise this ‘anti-Aruba movement’ will continue.
A repeat visitor to Aruba explained recently in an email, that he went to his travel agent to purchase his vacation ticket for next year, and encountered an anti-Aruban attitude at the agency. They didn’t want to sell the travel ticket either and he had to leave the place and look for another travel agency to purchase it.
This repeat visitor indicated that they have a timeshare, and they like Aruba very much and will continue to come to the island no matter what. However, they ask for the government of Aruba to do something about the investigation because what has been done does not seem right. He hopes that something happens soon in Aruba to show the whole world what the island is doing, otherwise it'll get worse.
[translated by Getagrip]
More Arubans encountering difficulties to conduct business abroad
DIARIO Aruba
11/18/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): As DIARIO presented last month, the ‘anti-Aruban’ sentiment continues to grow in the U.S. We showed how in Miami and Las Vegas, there was very ugly treatment against Arubans who are traveling for vacation or for business.
More and more Arubans are starting to identify themselves as “Bonerians” or “Curasoleños” when visiting an American city, because they don’t want to lose time discussing the matter.
DIARIO showed how some persons were not able to get assistance at a store because they said that they were from Aruba. It has also happened that citizens who pay with their credit cards, when showing a piece of ID or passport, and the cashiers, upon seeing that they are from Aruba, refuse to process the transaction.
The Prime Minister of Aruba has gotten details about this from Aruban students who are coming across problems.
There is confirmation of similar cases that are happening not only in America, but also with Aruban merchants traveling to Panama and also in Hong Kong.
One of those in the U.S. who are helping in the boycott, Joe Mammana, even said that he will find any way to force American shipping companies from sending merchandise to Aruba.
This week it became known that an American distributor decided to stop its years-long business relationship in Aruba, as a protest of the manner in which the government handled the matter of Natalee Holloway.
It seems as if the whole world is of the opinion that the government of Aruba, as well as the Justice system of Aruba is good for nothing. They want a change to take place, otherwise this ‘anti-Aruba movement’ will continue.
A repeat visitor to Aruba explained recently in an email, that he went to his travel agent to purchase his vacation ticket for next year, and encountered an anti-Aruban attitude at the agency. They didn’t want to sell the travel ticket either and he had to leave the place and look for another travel agency to purchase it.
This repeat visitor indicated that they have a timeshare, and they like Aruba very much and will continue to come to the island no matter what. However, they ask for the government of Aruba to do something about the investigation because what has been done does not seem right. He hopes that something happens soon in Aruba to show the whole world what the island is doing, otherwise it'll get worse.
[translated by Getagrip]
Merchants in Aruba are upset
Arubans considering taking Dr. Phil to court in the U.S.
Want to sue for damaging our island’s name
DIARIO Aruba
11/18/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): Thursday, on the Dr. Phil show, presented around the U.S. via syndication distributed by King World, the theme was “Sex Slaves”.
In the beginning, as well as at the end of the show, Dr. Phil repeated his message for everyone to stop traveling to Aruba.
Although the probability is great that the Alabama student is no longer of this world, a small percentage exists that they wanted to check out the probability that she is still alive.
DIARIO also had taken this into account from the beginning and on the basis of various ‘leads’ we have received, checked all corners for this story. In the background, DIARIO continues to investigate and check all details received. Only some of this investigation is made public, but no all.
It is true that a DIARIO reporter kept quiet that he went to check one of the tips that Natalee is alive, but because he did not find confirmation (‘hard facts’) of this probability, he opted to not go public with it.
However on Thursday, Natalee’s mother decided to divulge this to a big audience. Nevertheless, reporters continue to work on every detail and tip that is received.
NOW ABOUT CURACAO
The case of Amy Bradley also found a big spotlight on the Dr. Phil show, because it focused on young women that are abducted on other countries to be used as ‘sex slaves’.
Amy disappeared from a cruise ship when it first entered the port of Willemstad. Many believe that she fell of the ship and drowned in the Caribbean sea. However, from that time, her family thinks that she disembarked in Curacao without being noticed and that she is being held as a slave.
Dr. Phil even let a crew go to Curaçao and film the “Mirage” (formerly Campo Alegre) spy-video style, How did they do this, seeing that Mirage has their doors wide open to get coverage for their business? But Dr. Phil’s show portrayed it as if it were a very hidden and ‘secret’ place, even though it is a place that even has a website to promote itself.
MERCHANTS’ LAWSUIT
Some merchants are quite upset with the latest developments surrounding the case of Natalee Holloway, and expressed on Thursday that they are preparing a case against the complete production of Dr. Phil in the U.S.
This deals especially with the merchants whose business interests is that they do a lot of business with the U.S. The latest statements from this TV host is inflicting and continues to inflict damage to our island.
Thursday they were in contact with at least one very popular law firm in the U.S. in order to evaluate a possible lawsuit against Dr. Phil. It seems that the lawyers in the U.S. are convening to give the merchants from Aruba an answer about their questions if there is space for said lawsuit.
The lawsuit will be based on the fact that the name of Aruba is unfairly being dirtied, launching the whole economy of a country into trouble, without valid justification to do so.
Worse still, is when Dr. Phil on his own show insinuated that Natalee Holloway could possibly be in Cancun, Mexico. The question remains whether Natalee is not in Aruba, then how can he continue to promote a boycott against Aruba?
They also said that Mexico has slavery in the prostitution underworlds, and that would pay millions for Natalee Holloway, because she is a very popular young woman now…then how can Aruba be boycotted?
We are speaking here of a lawsuit which could run into the millions of American dollars if Aruba can prove that our economy and revenues of certain merchants go down because of the whole boycott which he is promoting against our island.
The intention is to look for more local merchants to lend a hand in the high cost of lawyers in the U.S. Many are thinking that if such a case would be worth it, then it has to be done to put some finality to the low manner in which the American press is treating our island, without giving us the chance to reply.
[translated by Getagrip]
Arubans considering taking Dr. Phil to court in the U.S.
Want to sue for damaging our island’s name
DIARIO Aruba
11/18/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): Thursday, on the Dr. Phil show, presented around the U.S. via syndication distributed by King World, the theme was “Sex Slaves”.
In the beginning, as well as at the end of the show, Dr. Phil repeated his message for everyone to stop traveling to Aruba.
Although the probability is great that the Alabama student is no longer of this world, a small percentage exists that they wanted to check out the probability that she is still alive.
DIARIO also had taken this into account from the beginning and on the basis of various ‘leads’ we have received, checked all corners for this story. In the background, DIARIO continues to investigate and check all details received. Only some of this investigation is made public, but no all.
It is true that a DIARIO reporter kept quiet that he went to check one of the tips that Natalee is alive, but because he did not find confirmation (‘hard facts’) of this probability, he opted to not go public with it.
However on Thursday, Natalee’s mother decided to divulge this to a big audience. Nevertheless, reporters continue to work on every detail and tip that is received.
NOW ABOUT CURACAO
The case of Amy Bradley also found a big spotlight on the Dr. Phil show, because it focused on young women that are abducted on other countries to be used as ‘sex slaves’.
Amy disappeared from a cruise ship when it first entered the port of Willemstad. Many believe that she fell of the ship and drowned in the Caribbean sea. However, from that time, her family thinks that she disembarked in Curacao without being noticed and that she is being held as a slave.
Dr. Phil even let a crew go to Curaçao and film the “Mirage” (formerly Campo Alegre) spy-video style, How did they do this, seeing that Mirage has their doors wide open to get coverage for their business? But Dr. Phil’s show portrayed it as if it were a very hidden and ‘secret’ place, even though it is a place that even has a website to promote itself.
MERCHANTS’ LAWSUIT
Some merchants are quite upset with the latest developments surrounding the case of Natalee Holloway, and expressed on Thursday that they are preparing a case against the complete production of Dr. Phil in the U.S.
This deals especially with the merchants whose business interests is that they do a lot of business with the U.S. The latest statements from this TV host is inflicting and continues to inflict damage to our island.
Thursday they were in contact with at least one very popular law firm in the U.S. in order to evaluate a possible lawsuit against Dr. Phil. It seems that the lawyers in the U.S. are convening to give the merchants from Aruba an answer about their questions if there is space for said lawsuit.
The lawsuit will be based on the fact that the name of Aruba is unfairly being dirtied, launching the whole economy of a country into trouble, without valid justification to do so.
Worse still, is when Dr. Phil on his own show insinuated that Natalee Holloway could possibly be in Cancun, Mexico. The question remains whether Natalee is not in Aruba, then how can he continue to promote a boycott against Aruba?
They also said that Mexico has slavery in the prostitution underworlds, and that would pay millions for Natalee Holloway, because she is a very popular young woman now…then how can Aruba be boycotted?
We are speaking here of a lawsuit which could run into the millions of American dollars if Aruba can prove that our economy and revenues of certain merchants go down because of the whole boycott which he is promoting against our island.
The intention is to look for more local merchants to lend a hand in the high cost of lawyers in the U.S. Many are thinking that if such a case would be worth it, then it has to be done to put some finality to the low manner in which the American press is treating our island, without giving us the chance to reply.
[translated by Getagrip]
They haven’t found Natalee
Dr. Phil explains today what he is doing
DIARIO Aruba
11/17/2005
MIAMI (AAN): Yesterday, the persistent rumour in Aruba was that they had found Natalee and that she was even with her mother. What probably gave rise to the rumour is that Dr. Phil announced that today he will present on his program certain ‘evidence’ that his people investigated and what resulted from it.
After consulting with a few investigators in the U.S., DIARIO can say that it is true that the people from Dr. Phil conducted investigations in different countries of South American and also on a few islands of the Caribbean, but with no positive result.
What Dr. Phil will probably announce today is the manner in which they followed every clue, every information, and every thing that they considered evidence, to see if it’s true that Natalee is alive and in that way rescue and deliver her to her family.
However, it is now the known that the indications that they followed had a negative result. They looked for, but did not locate, Natalee in a few latin American countries and did not find her either in the different islands where Dr. Phil’s investigators went personally to verify information that they considered as some type of evidence.
One of Dr. Phil’s principal investigators, Jamie Skeeters, went personally to these different countries and islands of the Caribbean, and could observe that Natalee is not where they supposed that she could be, if in case she were alive.
Soon he went to another country because a certain source informed them that a remote possibility exists that Natalee could be in a brothel, where she was sold by a sex trafficker gang.
None of this information has a solid basis, rather that certain indications were made for Dr. Phil to exhaust all resources to determine whether the young woman is alive or if she is in effect deceased.
Dr. Phil is working in all seriousness. His intention is to discard one of the two possibilities, to in this way, concentrate on only one. His investigators are trying to eliminate the possibility that she is alive, looking along all paths where she could be, to in this way determine once and for all in what condition she actually is: alive or dead. One by one, they are discarding the indications that they are following in different countries and islands to arrive at a final conclusion.
On DIARIO’s part, we have insisted from the very beginning that there is no concrete evidence to prove that Natalee is alive, and there isn’t any to prove she is dead either.
At DIARIO we have made the point that, according to admissions made by the three suspects to the police, Natalee isn’t alive. The interview with Jamie had with Deepak also proves that the three (and possibly more people) had sexual relations with the young woman when she was constantly losing consciousness.
Additionally, there are other admissions in which the suspects said that “something bad” happened to Natalee. What is “something bad”, only the three suspects can tell us, because they were in her company when this happened.
Given all the factors involved, it is difficult not to express disappointment in the way the Dutch judge treated the case, setting the suspects free and permitting them to leave Aruba, despite the evidence of sexual assault contained in their admissions to police during interrogations and confirmed by Deepak in his interview with Jamie Skeeters, because in our laws, rape is punishable by prison! Apart from this, there is a declaration made by Joran that he believes that Deepak raped and killed Natalee on the beach. How could the judge not even interrogate him, and the other suspects, on this point of their admissions?
[translated by Getagrip]
Dr. Phil explains today what he is doing
DIARIO Aruba
11/17/2005
MIAMI (AAN): Yesterday, the persistent rumour in Aruba was that they had found Natalee and that she was even with her mother. What probably gave rise to the rumour is that Dr. Phil announced that today he will present on his program certain ‘evidence’ that his people investigated and what resulted from it.
After consulting with a few investigators in the U.S., DIARIO can say that it is true that the people from Dr. Phil conducted investigations in different countries of South American and also on a few islands of the Caribbean, but with no positive result.
What Dr. Phil will probably announce today is the manner in which they followed every clue, every information, and every thing that they considered evidence, to see if it’s true that Natalee is alive and in that way rescue and deliver her to her family.
However, it is now the known that the indications that they followed had a negative result. They looked for, but did not locate, Natalee in a few latin American countries and did not find her either in the different islands where Dr. Phil’s investigators went personally to verify information that they considered as some type of evidence.
One of Dr. Phil’s principal investigators, Jamie Skeeters, went personally to these different countries and islands of the Caribbean, and could observe that Natalee is not where they supposed that she could be, if in case she were alive.
Soon he went to another country because a certain source informed them that a remote possibility exists that Natalee could be in a brothel, where she was sold by a sex trafficker gang.
None of this information has a solid basis, rather that certain indications were made for Dr. Phil to exhaust all resources to determine whether the young woman is alive or if she is in effect deceased.
Dr. Phil is working in all seriousness. His intention is to discard one of the two possibilities, to in this way, concentrate on only one. His investigators are trying to eliminate the possibility that she is alive, looking along all paths where she could be, to in this way determine once and for all in what condition she actually is: alive or dead. One by one, they are discarding the indications that they are following in different countries and islands to arrive at a final conclusion.
On DIARIO’s part, we have insisted from the very beginning that there is no concrete evidence to prove that Natalee is alive, and there isn’t any to prove she is dead either.
At DIARIO we have made the point that, according to admissions made by the three suspects to the police, Natalee isn’t alive. The interview with Jamie had with Deepak also proves that the three (and possibly more people) had sexual relations with the young woman when she was constantly losing consciousness.
Additionally, there are other admissions in which the suspects said that “something bad” happened to Natalee. What is “something bad”, only the three suspects can tell us, because they were in her company when this happened.
Given all the factors involved, it is difficult not to express disappointment in the way the Dutch judge treated the case, setting the suspects free and permitting them to leave Aruba, despite the evidence of sexual assault contained in their admissions to police during interrogations and confirmed by Deepak in his interview with Jamie Skeeters, because in our laws, rape is punishable by prison! Apart from this, there is a declaration made by Joran that he believes that Deepak raped and killed Natalee on the beach. How could the judge not even interrogate him, and the other suspects, on this point of their admissions?
[translated by Getagrip]
11.17.2005
In the case of Natalee
Former government spokesperson creates even more anger against Aruba in the U.S.
DIARIO Aruba
11/16/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) In the US, things are turning darker day after day for the country of Aruba, its image, and surely its tourism and financial future given the planned actions of the boycott.
It is more than logical that nobody wants to call themselves an Aruban or wants to beat their chest and say that they love this island and will defend it until the end, that they don’t want any manner of boycott against their island!
If everyone knows that in the US certain persons want to use the case of Natalee to create sensation, and while there isn’t a solution to the case, any declaration a little on the outrageous side on the part of Aruba, can end up adding fuel to the fire, then why are there in Aruba supposed heroes who believe that they can go confront them macho-style, who can do even more damage in the case of Natalee?
These are the questions that everyone who loves this island have to ask them because last Sunday again, unnecessary anger arose towards the American public who can see and hear via an American TV channel, how a former government spokesperson went to spin the case of Natalee by telling Americans that the war in Iraq was also something that Americans took care of in an incorrect way from the beginning.
What does the war in Iraq have to do with Aruba and how can this help us to solve the case of Natalee and surely avoid the boycott who will harm the whole island?
The former government spokesperson declared on FOX News Channel (when he was interviewed) that there were truly errors made in Aruba at the beginning of the investigation into Natalee’s case, but that the US also took care of the war in Iraq incorrectly from the beginning!
Well, this was fuel added to the fire of the American TV viewing public’s sentiments and the consequences of the preposterous declarations and statements of the former government spokesperson were to have more and more people in the US asking for a boycott of Aruba.
Appeals have been made to the public to put pressure on cruise ships to not come to Aruba. Until when will these macho acts continue from Aruba to result a total disaster for this island?
Is the former government spokesperson, who now works at the airport, aware that his preposterous statements can result in tomorrow not having any, or having few planes from the US landing in the same airport where he earns his very attractive salary?
Is the former government spokesperson who works at the airport aware that million-dollar investments that the sole owner of the actual work being done at the airport, is how he wins his bread, and is now jeopardized by his preposterous statements made towards the American public?
The time has come for the people of Aruba to pull themselves together and see how together they are going to get out of this problem which has been caused by a couple of people and now is affecting the future of the country of Aruba.
This is also a plea to the public for any person who knows anything, however small, about the case of Natalee, to please contact police and give the information that police are missing to solve this case.
For all those who believe that they can fight an elephant, while they are nothing more than an ant: you are doing more harm than you know and the majority of the people didn’t ask for you to do even more damage.
Instead of looking to confront the police corps, prosecutor, American press and a long list of more people and institutions who have to solve the case of Natalee, the best way to take care of this case when questions are asked, is not to get into confrontations with anyone, but to ask all persons or institutions, be they local or foreign, to help us solve the case because today Aruba stands alone in the battlefield, fighting alone against injustice with a people who have no art or part in this.
The fact is that if DIARIO will continue to work in Natalee’s case and also on other case of those who have lost loved ones (among others, the case of Amy Bradley, who disappeared from a cruise ship in 1998) until the truth comes to the light of day.
[translated by Getagrip]
Former government spokesperson creates even more anger against Aruba in the U.S.
DIARIO Aruba
11/16/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) In the US, things are turning darker day after day for the country of Aruba, its image, and surely its tourism and financial future given the planned actions of the boycott.
It is more than logical that nobody wants to call themselves an Aruban or wants to beat their chest and say that they love this island and will defend it until the end, that they don’t want any manner of boycott against their island!
If everyone knows that in the US certain persons want to use the case of Natalee to create sensation, and while there isn’t a solution to the case, any declaration a little on the outrageous side on the part of Aruba, can end up adding fuel to the fire, then why are there in Aruba supposed heroes who believe that they can go confront them macho-style, who can do even more damage in the case of Natalee?
These are the questions that everyone who loves this island have to ask them because last Sunday again, unnecessary anger arose towards the American public who can see and hear via an American TV channel, how a former government spokesperson went to spin the case of Natalee by telling Americans that the war in Iraq was also something that Americans took care of in an incorrect way from the beginning.
What does the war in Iraq have to do with Aruba and how can this help us to solve the case of Natalee and surely avoid the boycott who will harm the whole island?
The former government spokesperson declared on FOX News Channel (when he was interviewed) that there were truly errors made in Aruba at the beginning of the investigation into Natalee’s case, but that the US also took care of the war in Iraq incorrectly from the beginning!
Well, this was fuel added to the fire of the American TV viewing public’s sentiments and the consequences of the preposterous declarations and statements of the former government spokesperson were to have more and more people in the US asking for a boycott of Aruba.
Appeals have been made to the public to put pressure on cruise ships to not come to Aruba. Until when will these macho acts continue from Aruba to result a total disaster for this island?
Is the former government spokesperson, who now works at the airport, aware that his preposterous statements can result in tomorrow not having any, or having few planes from the US landing in the same airport where he earns his very attractive salary?
Is the former government spokesperson who works at the airport aware that million-dollar investments that the sole owner of the actual work being done at the airport, is how he wins his bread, and is now jeopardized by his preposterous statements made towards the American public?
The time has come for the people of Aruba to pull themselves together and see how together they are going to get out of this problem which has been caused by a couple of people and now is affecting the future of the country of Aruba.
This is also a plea to the public for any person who knows anything, however small, about the case of Natalee, to please contact police and give the information that police are missing to solve this case.
For all those who believe that they can fight an elephant, while they are nothing more than an ant: you are doing more harm than you know and the majority of the people didn’t ask for you to do even more damage.
Instead of looking to confront the police corps, prosecutor, American press and a long list of more people and institutions who have to solve the case of Natalee, the best way to take care of this case when questions are asked, is not to get into confrontations with anyone, but to ask all persons or institutions, be they local or foreign, to help us solve the case because today Aruba stands alone in the battlefield, fighting alone against injustice with a people who have no art or part in this.
The fact is that if DIARIO will continue to work in Natalee’s case and also on other case of those who have lost loved ones (among others, the case of Amy Bradley, who disappeared from a cruise ship in 1998) until the truth comes to the light of day.
[translated by Getagrip]
Now, more than ever, we must show the real face of Aruba
A.M. Digital
11/17/2005
Now that Aruba is going through difficult times when in the US several personalities, organizations and individuals are calling for a boycott against Aruba because of the Natalee Holloway case, more than ever we must show our visitors, from wherever they are, that we indeed are a hospitable, friendly and always ready to help and assist.
It is very normal that many, if not all, of us are feeling rage when we hear a number of people that do not know us; that have never been here; that do not know our legal system; or that are simply guided by speculative information; are trying to prevent tourists to continue visiting our island.
On the other hand Aruba is and will continue to be an excellent destination for hundreds of thousands of visitors from the USA, Europe and Latin America. These are the people that must continue to feel our warmth, and continue to feel that we are humble, simple, honest and friendly, and that we appreciate our visitors.
Aruba has been known for those qualities for many years, and not only as just another “beach destination”. Our people have built Aruba as a tourism destination; it is because of our people that Aruba has the highest repeat visitor percentage in the Caribbean [and perhaps in the world]; it is because of the language skills of our people that Aruba can transmit its uniquely positive qualities all over the globe. Let’s keep it like that. Our visitors will continue to come because they know Aruba and its people. Now it is up to us to show that we have not changed, and continue to show our face: our only face!
Those that continue to arrive are those that do not believe in boycott, they deserve to be treated as we have always treated our visitors. Let’s try to prevent to show the rage that others have caused in us and keep treating our loyal visitors in the way we have always treated them. Let’s show that Aruba was, is, and will continue to be the greatest and let’s share that greatness with those that continue to believe in us. That is how we can show those that do not see, or do nor wish to see, the real Aruba, that we are still the same, and that the disappearance of a young American girl is an exception and not the rule.
Aruba continues to be a safe country, not only for its citizens but also for our visitors with whom we are proud to share our island.
[English language original text]
A.M. Digital
11/17/2005
Now that Aruba is going through difficult times when in the US several personalities, organizations and individuals are calling for a boycott against Aruba because of the Natalee Holloway case, more than ever we must show our visitors, from wherever they are, that we indeed are a hospitable, friendly and always ready to help and assist.
It is very normal that many, if not all, of us are feeling rage when we hear a number of people that do not know us; that have never been here; that do not know our legal system; or that are simply guided by speculative information; are trying to prevent tourists to continue visiting our island.
On the other hand Aruba is and will continue to be an excellent destination for hundreds of thousands of visitors from the USA, Europe and Latin America. These are the people that must continue to feel our warmth, and continue to feel that we are humble, simple, honest and friendly, and that we appreciate our visitors.
Aruba has been known for those qualities for many years, and not only as just another “beach destination”. Our people have built Aruba as a tourism destination; it is because of our people that Aruba has the highest repeat visitor percentage in the Caribbean [and perhaps in the world]; it is because of the language skills of our people that Aruba can transmit its uniquely positive qualities all over the globe. Let’s keep it like that. Our visitors will continue to come because they know Aruba and its people. Now it is up to us to show that we have not changed, and continue to show our face: our only face!
Those that continue to arrive are those that do not believe in boycott, they deserve to be treated as we have always treated our visitors. Let’s try to prevent to show the rage that others have caused in us and keep treating our loyal visitors in the way we have always treated them. Let’s show that Aruba was, is, and will continue to be the greatest and let’s share that greatness with those that continue to believe in us. That is how we can show those that do not see, or do nor wish to see, the real Aruba, that we are still the same, and that the disappearance of a young American girl is an exception and not the rule.
Aruba continues to be a safe country, not only for its citizens but also for our visitors with whom we are proud to share our island.
[English language original text]
11.16.2005
Twitty does not give up
Amigoe
11/15/2055
ARUBA -The judge's decision about Paul van der Sloot no longer being a suspect does not surprise me. After all, they have set free three rapists in Aruba, says Beth Twitty, who continues to demand attention for the disappearance of her daughter, Natalee Holloway. And the thing is that she gets support from several talk shows and a handful of friendly politicians.
Greta van Susteren, Nancy Grace and Dr. Phil didn't loose their preference for the Holloway-case. Twitty is a guest in their show evening after evening, during which they insinuate, without proof, that Aruba is an unsafe place for tourists and that the legal system of Aruba is no good. Although Twitty does not directly appeal for a boycott of Aruba, she does indicate that she is very happy with the support she gets from the governor of Alabama. She makes it clear that it is about a group of friendly senators that have supported her from the beginning. The talk shows do not mention though that husband Jug Twitty is financially supporting their election campaigns [ed. false claim]. Apparently, Twitty had done some investigations on her own, but she doesn't want to give any details on these [ed. false claim]. There are strong indications that her daughter was abducted and taken to Venezuela to work as sex-slave [ed. Dr. Phil's opinion]. The only thing she wanted to say was that her detectives will act on all tips.
The American media does manage to get Aruban citizens in their program. Apparently, there are still people that do not realize that whatever they say, will be twisted just to support Twitty's case. Lawyer Arlene Elis-Schipper, the official spokeswoman of the Strategic Communications Task Force was exposed as a liar in one of the shows, after she tried to explain that the Public Prosecutor (OM) had not refused to talk to Beth Twitty. That the OM didn't talk to Twitty last week when she was in Aruba is because chief prosecutor Karin Janssen was in court in the morning, and Twitty had to catch a plane afterwards. "Twitty herself cancelled a meeting earlier and then she expects that everybody has to be available when it suites her", said Ellis-Schipper.
According to her, the boycott is based on the supposed refusal of the authorities to talk to the family of Natalee Holloway. She says that this is not true. She is of the opinion that the reports on the Internet willfully omit the issues that made her score in the show in question. She indicated in the show that the allegations of the family Holloway are based on rumours, are not supported by the government of the United States, and that the boycott can also hurt the State of Alabama.
[English language original text]
Amigoe
11/15/2055
ARUBA -The judge's decision about Paul van der Sloot no longer being a suspect does not surprise me. After all, they have set free three rapists in Aruba, says Beth Twitty, who continues to demand attention for the disappearance of her daughter, Natalee Holloway. And the thing is that she gets support from several talk shows and a handful of friendly politicians.
Greta van Susteren, Nancy Grace and Dr. Phil didn't loose their preference for the Holloway-case. Twitty is a guest in their show evening after evening, during which they insinuate, without proof, that Aruba is an unsafe place for tourists and that the legal system of Aruba is no good. Although Twitty does not directly appeal for a boycott of Aruba, she does indicate that she is very happy with the support she gets from the governor of Alabama. She makes it clear that it is about a group of friendly senators that have supported her from the beginning. The talk shows do not mention though that husband Jug Twitty is financially supporting their election campaigns [ed. false claim]. Apparently, Twitty had done some investigations on her own, but she doesn't want to give any details on these [ed. false claim]. There are strong indications that her daughter was abducted and taken to Venezuela to work as sex-slave [ed. Dr. Phil's opinion]. The only thing she wanted to say was that her detectives will act on all tips.
The American media does manage to get Aruban citizens in their program. Apparently, there are still people that do not realize that whatever they say, will be twisted just to support Twitty's case. Lawyer Arlene Elis-Schipper, the official spokeswoman of the Strategic Communications Task Force was exposed as a liar in one of the shows, after she tried to explain that the Public Prosecutor (OM) had not refused to talk to Beth Twitty. That the OM didn't talk to Twitty last week when she was in Aruba is because chief prosecutor Karin Janssen was in court in the morning, and Twitty had to catch a plane afterwards. "Twitty herself cancelled a meeting earlier and then she expects that everybody has to be available when it suites her", said Ellis-Schipper.
According to her, the boycott is based on the supposed refusal of the authorities to talk to the family of Natalee Holloway. She says that this is not true. She is of the opinion that the reports on the Internet willfully omit the issues that made her score in the show in question. She indicated in the show that the allegations of the family Holloway are based on rumours, are not supported by the government of the United States, and that the boycott can also hurt the State of Alabama.
[English language original text]
11.15.2005
SPA: Team will not be changed – it will be expanded
A.M. Digital
11/15/2005
After having taken note of several rumors, the Police Union (SPA) decided to meet with the [Natalee Holloway] Investigating Team to learn of the latest developments. SPA wished to know if is true that the Public Prosecutor sent a letter to Police Commissioner Bernadina to change the investigating team.
SPA has all the information and has taken the position not to permit any changes in the investigating team. If the Public Prosecutor and the Police Commissioner order the change just like, there will be no other alternative than to disobey such order. What assurance will the next group of detectives have that after a while Beth Twitty will not demand their removal when she sees fit?
After meeting with the investigating team it turned out that two of the members of the team are not feeling well and can not continue with the team because of their health condition. This was confirmed and as such SPA does not have any objections to, as proposed by Commissioner Bernadina, add more detectives to the team to help with the investigation. Two new members will certainly join the team and probably it will be expanded with another two to three detectives in order to speed up the investigation in the Natalee Holloway disappearance case.
[English language original text]
A.M. Digital
11/15/2005
After having taken note of several rumors, the Police Union (SPA) decided to meet with the [Natalee Holloway] Investigating Team to learn of the latest developments. SPA wished to know if is true that the Public Prosecutor sent a letter to Police Commissioner Bernadina to change the investigating team.
SPA has all the information and has taken the position not to permit any changes in the investigating team. If the Public Prosecutor and the Police Commissioner order the change just like, there will be no other alternative than to disobey such order. What assurance will the next group of detectives have that after a while Beth Twitty will not demand their removal when she sees fit?
After meeting with the investigating team it turned out that two of the members of the team are not feeling well and can not continue with the team because of their health condition. This was confirmed and as such SPA does not have any objections to, as proposed by Commissioner Bernadina, add more detectives to the team to help with the investigation. Two new members will certainly join the team and probably it will be expanded with another two to three detectives in order to speed up the investigation in the Natalee Holloway disappearance case.
[English language original text]
Will there be changes?
PP requests High Commissioner to effect changes immediately
A.M. Digital
11/15/2005
While the President of the Police Union (SPA) emphatically declared that his organization stands for the integrity and credibility of the Public Prosecutor and of the investigating team in the Natalee Holloway case, we understand that possibly there will be changes in the team.
Information has reached us that the Public Prosecutor (PP), mrs. Teresa Croes Fernandes Pedra, requested High Police Commissioner Bernadina in writing to apply some changes in the investigating team. In hierarchy of the local legal system the PP has the right to request changes from the Police Commissioner.
If indeed changes are made, this means that Commissioner Dompig will probably have to move although he replaced ex-Commissioner van der Straten who retired. In their letter to the PP the Twitty and Holloway families also request removal of detective Dennis Jacobs from the team. We do not know if the official who has been assisting Jacobs in this case will also be moved.
Commissioner Bernadina is finding himself in a very tedious situation and we think that only serious and intensive discussions within the Police Top will determine if, and how the changes will be made.
[English language original text]
11.14.2005
Investigative team will get new faces
Very dirty handling of the Holloway case in the prosecution’s office
DIARIO Aruba
11/14/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): Information DIARIO investigated the whole weekend is what happened with the letter which was sent directly to the attorney general at the Public Ministry by the Holloway and Twitty families to remove those mentioned by name, those in the investigative team orchestrated by the very same Public Ministry.
Dave Holloway, in a secret meeting with prosecutor Flanegin: on the basis of information we have continued to find and search for, about the people in our own Public Ministry, we have been able to uncover that Dave Holloway had a secret meeting with prosecutor Flanegin who apparently got the green light from the attorney general to speak with Dave Holloway in secret.
It is well known that the relationship between the chief prosecutor Karen Jansen and the attorney general Teresa Croes Fernandez-Pedra is not one of the best and because of this, communication between the two is not very good.
Still, it can be recalled how they had a disagreement with each other when the prosecutor notified the attorney general via a letter that it would be best if her daughter didn’t act as spokesperson for the Public Ministry in the case of the disappearance of Natalee, given that she looked like a kid.
This and more, was the reason that the relationship between the two of them turned bad. The day that Dave Holloway was in Aruba he conversed with prosecutor Flanegin and on the basis of this conversation some days later came the scathing letter demanding the removal of three people on the investigative team.
Still, one can recall the letter that appeared in DIARIO where it was asked to pull prosecutor Karen Jansen, Commissioner Dompig and investigator Dennis Cabez [Jacobs?]
This meeting took place at the invitation of Dave Holloway who called prosecutor Flanegin, who in turn asked for the attorney general’s permission who also gave her the green light. In this meeting were present Dave Holloway, prosecutor Flanegin and another American whose name was not released.
The meeting took place in a local restaurant and Dave Holloway asked many questions to prosecutor Flanegin who on a few occasions was in contact via telephone with the attorney general so that she could provide complete answers to Dave Holloway.
The truth came out that no one knew directly of the secret conversation between prosecutor Flanegin and Dave Holloway, but although it was hidden, one day reality came out and the hidden truth came to be known.
Karen Jansen confronted her colleague Flanegin with this fact and there was no other alternative than to confirm the truth and say or come out with everything and that behind her back, the attorney general gave the ok to speak with Dave Holloway in secret.
On this basis also, on Friday Karen Jansen brought an extensive letter to show her displeasure in and her distrust with her colleague.
In this way also it came out that the whole letter which came from the Twitty Holloway family was orchestrated by the very same people at the head of the Public Ministry and the attorney general who want to remove Karen Jansen and Commissioner Gerold Dompig, along with Dennis Jacobs.
The attorney general called the High Commissioner: related to this same letter, the attorney general continues to try to achieve her goal and apparently got in contact with the high commissioner and demanded that those mentioned in the letter be removed.
Perhaps the attorney general herself will take case of the Public Ministry and the high commissioner has to take care of the agents and commissioner at the head of the case of Natalee’s disappearance.
Perhaps the time has come for Karen Jansen to start coming out with things she knows because it is very clear that someone is trying to stab her in the back.
But the Public Ministry has a double edged sword. New faces starting today: starting today the investigative team will have new faces in the case of the investigation of Natalee Holloway.
This does not mean that those mentioned in the letter will no longer be there, but it does mean that people will enter the team which the attorney general will officially announce on Tuesday.
The wish to remove those in the police corps in the case of the disappearance of Natalee will surely not be honoured by the police command given that this would become a very serious situation where the message would end up being that no other people would work on the case anymore.
Or it will stay the same and they will put new extra people on the team, but nothing about removing those who are there and putting new people. This situation shows that many people have doubts about the investigation of the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
We have not heard anything: for some time we have not heard anything about the case of Natalee via official channels. It is sad if the Public Ministry is sending information to the American press but nothing to the local one.
When calling with questions for the prosecutor or the attorney general, they could not be located. The case of Natalee Holloway has resulted in many people at first talking, then deciding to stay quiet.
We at the local press cannot help the whole situation when there’s a public ministry or [cos robez?] who speaks to the American press which turns against the public ministry.
We hope that the public ministry also breaks the silence they have held so that everyone knows the truth or better still how this case is going and in this way everything ends because the real problem is being caused as much as for Aruba as for the public ministry itself where the attorney general is barbarically failing with her working system.
[translated by Getagrip]
Very dirty handling of the Holloway case in the prosecution’s office
DIARIO Aruba
11/14/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): Information DIARIO investigated the whole weekend is what happened with the letter which was sent directly to the attorney general at the Public Ministry by the Holloway and Twitty families to remove those mentioned by name, those in the investigative team orchestrated by the very same Public Ministry.
Dave Holloway, in a secret meeting with prosecutor Flanegin: on the basis of information we have continued to find and search for, about the people in our own Public Ministry, we have been able to uncover that Dave Holloway had a secret meeting with prosecutor Flanegin who apparently got the green light from the attorney general to speak with Dave Holloway in secret.
It is well known that the relationship between the chief prosecutor Karen Jansen and the attorney general Teresa Croes Fernandez-Pedra is not one of the best and because of this, communication between the two is not very good.
Still, it can be recalled how they had a disagreement with each other when the prosecutor notified the attorney general via a letter that it would be best if her daughter didn’t act as spokesperson for the Public Ministry in the case of the disappearance of Natalee, given that she looked like a kid.
This and more, was the reason that the relationship between the two of them turned bad. The day that Dave Holloway was in Aruba he conversed with prosecutor Flanegin and on the basis of this conversation some days later came the scathing letter demanding the removal of three people on the investigative team.
Still, one can recall the letter that appeared in DIARIO where it was asked to pull prosecutor Karen Jansen, Commissioner Dompig and investigator Dennis Cabez [Jacobs?]
This meeting took place at the invitation of Dave Holloway who called prosecutor Flanegin, who in turn asked for the attorney general’s permission who also gave her the green light. In this meeting were present Dave Holloway, prosecutor Flanegin and another American whose name was not released.
The meeting took place in a local restaurant and Dave Holloway asked many questions to prosecutor Flanegin who on a few occasions was in contact via telephone with the attorney general so that she could provide complete answers to Dave Holloway.
The truth came out that no one knew directly of the secret conversation between prosecutor Flanegin and Dave Holloway, but although it was hidden, one day reality came out and the hidden truth came to be known.
Karen Jansen confronted her colleague Flanegin with this fact and there was no other alternative than to confirm the truth and say or come out with everything and that behind her back, the attorney general gave the ok to speak with Dave Holloway in secret.
On this basis also, on Friday Karen Jansen brought an extensive letter to show her displeasure in and her distrust with her colleague.
In this way also it came out that the whole letter which came from the Twitty Holloway family was orchestrated by the very same people at the head of the Public Ministry and the attorney general who want to remove Karen Jansen and Commissioner Gerold Dompig, along with Dennis Jacobs.
The attorney general called the High Commissioner: related to this same letter, the attorney general continues to try to achieve her goal and apparently got in contact with the high commissioner and demanded that those mentioned in the letter be removed.
Perhaps the attorney general herself will take case of the Public Ministry and the high commissioner has to take care of the agents and commissioner at the head of the case of Natalee’s disappearance.
Perhaps the time has come for Karen Jansen to start coming out with things she knows because it is very clear that someone is trying to stab her in the back.
But the Public Ministry has a double edged sword. New faces starting today: starting today the investigative team will have new faces in the case of the investigation of Natalee Holloway.
This does not mean that those mentioned in the letter will no longer be there, but it does mean that people will enter the team which the attorney general will officially announce on Tuesday.
The wish to remove those in the police corps in the case of the disappearance of Natalee will surely not be honoured by the police command given that this would become a very serious situation where the message would end up being that no other people would work on the case anymore.
Or it will stay the same and they will put new extra people on the team, but nothing about removing those who are there and putting new people. This situation shows that many people have doubts about the investigation of the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
We have not heard anything: for some time we have not heard anything about the case of Natalee via official channels. It is sad if the Public Ministry is sending information to the American press but nothing to the local one.
When calling with questions for the prosecutor or the attorney general, they could not be located. The case of Natalee Holloway has resulted in many people at first talking, then deciding to stay quiet.
We at the local press cannot help the whole situation when there’s a public ministry or [cos robez?] who speaks to the American press which turns against the public ministry.
We hope that the public ministry also breaks the silence they have held so that everyone knows the truth or better still how this case is going and in this way everything ends because the real problem is being caused as much as for Aruba as for the public ministry itself where the attorney general is barbarically failing with her working system.
[translated by Getagrip]
According to FOX
Authorities in Aruba to interrogate Deepak, Satish and Joran again
DIARIO Aruba
11/14/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): There was a news report Sunday on FOX, where the channel said that investigators in Aruba are going to interrogate the three suspects in the case of Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe, and Satish Kalpoe, once again.
The anchor from FOX asked an ex-FBI agent what he thinks about this prospect, that after so many times the suspects were interrogated, that now this will happen once more.
The ex-FBI agent explained that maybe the investigators feel that there are still certain questions that remain unanswered after all the interrogations, or that maybe they have important new information that has come forward recently and that it would be good to speak with these youngsters once again.
Another FOX reporter indicated that he conversed with Commissioner Dompig recently, where he asked him his opinion about the fact that on the tape, Deepak Kalpoe said that they all three had sex with Natalee Holloway, when the young American wasn’t fully conscious.
The reporter said that Dompig confirmed that perhaps they will prosecute the suspects on rape charges.
The reporter also asked the ex-FBI agent what he thinks about the fact that Dompig wants to speak with Natalee Holloway’s classmates in the US.
The ex-FBI agent explained that he believes that these kids after all this time could have forgotten certain important details, which wouldn’t have been lost if this had happened at the beginning of the case.
However, he said that the he believes the FBI will interview the kids adequately if needed.
[translated by Getagrip]
Authorities in Aruba to interrogate Deepak, Satish and Joran again
DIARIO Aruba
11/14/2005
ORANJESTAD(AAN): There was a news report Sunday on FOX, where the channel said that investigators in Aruba are going to interrogate the three suspects in the case of Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe, and Satish Kalpoe, once again.
The anchor from FOX asked an ex-FBI agent what he thinks about this prospect, that after so many times the suspects were interrogated, that now this will happen once more.
The ex-FBI agent explained that maybe the investigators feel that there are still certain questions that remain unanswered after all the interrogations, or that maybe they have important new information that has come forward recently and that it would be good to speak with these youngsters once again.
Another FOX reporter indicated that he conversed with Commissioner Dompig recently, where he asked him his opinion about the fact that on the tape, Deepak Kalpoe said that they all three had sex with Natalee Holloway, when the young American wasn’t fully conscious.
The reporter said that Dompig confirmed that perhaps they will prosecute the suspects on rape charges.
The reporter also asked the ex-FBI agent what he thinks about the fact that Dompig wants to speak with Natalee Holloway’s classmates in the US.
The ex-FBI agent explained that he believes that these kids after all this time could have forgotten certain important details, which wouldn’t have been lost if this had happened at the beginning of the case.
However, he said that the he believes the FBI will interview the kids adequately if needed.
[translated by Getagrip]
Lampe asks for international investigation on the Holloway-case
Amigoe
11/12/2005
ARUBA – RED has requested an independent and international investigation on the entire development in the matter of the disappeared Natalee Holloway. The request was made during the emergency Parliament meeting on the appeal to boycott Aruba.
According to Rudy Lampe, this is the only way to get the Americans to have confidence in the integrity of the OM and the police corps again. You won’t achieve this by saying how beautiful Aruba is. That the Americans have doubt is due to the fact that the main suspects in this case were walking around free for 10 days; the public conflict between the Attorney General and the Chief Public Prosecutor; the fact that the Attorney General has prohibited the Chief Public Prosecutor to give statements; the statements of the investigation teams towards the Holloway family. “If you can prove that the level of integrity is high, you don’t have to be afraid when a foreign instance investigates this. It can only help you”, said Lampe.
[English language original text]
Amigoe
11/12/2005
ARUBA – RED has requested an independent and international investigation on the entire development in the matter of the disappeared Natalee Holloway. The request was made during the emergency Parliament meeting on the appeal to boycott Aruba.
According to Rudy Lampe, this is the only way to get the Americans to have confidence in the integrity of the OM and the police corps again. You won’t achieve this by saying how beautiful Aruba is. That the Americans have doubt is due to the fact that the main suspects in this case were walking around free for 10 days; the public conflict between the Attorney General and the Chief Public Prosecutor; the fact that the Attorney General has prohibited the Chief Public Prosecutor to give statements; the statements of the investigation teams towards the Holloway family. “If you can prove that the level of integrity is high, you don’t have to be afraid when a foreign instance investigates this. It can only help you”, said Lampe.
[English language original text]
Paul van der Sloot no longer a suspect
Amigoe
11/12/2005
ARUBA – The Common Court of the Neth.Antilles and Aruba decided that Paul van der Sloot is longer a suspect in the Holloway case.
The court decided this in a lawsuit where Paul van der Sloot asks the National Government for compensation due to damages caused by his persecution in the Holloway-case.
Paul van der Sloot was detained from June 23rd up till the 26th in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The examining-magistrate decided then that there was not sufficient evidence against Van der Sloot and released him.
His lawyer thought that he was no longer a suspect and instituted a lawsuit for compensation. During the hearing of this lawsuit it appeared that the Public Prosecutor (OM) was still considering him as suspect. Lawyer Swaen was very surprised to hear this, because in an earlier letter he was told that his client was no longer a suspect. Swaen asked for a copy of the report, which he was denied because his client was not a suspect. The judge ruled yesterday that Van der Sloot is indeed no longer a suspect and that his compensation case can continue. He has to submit a foundation of the claim not later than December 1st and the OM has two weeks to react. The Court will decide on the claim early next year. The OM can also appeal yesterday’s decision of the Court.
[English language original text]
Amigoe
11/12/2005
ARUBA – The Common Court of the Neth.Antilles and Aruba decided that Paul van der Sloot is longer a suspect in the Holloway case.
The court decided this in a lawsuit where Paul van der Sloot asks the National Government for compensation due to damages caused by his persecution in the Holloway-case.
Paul van der Sloot was detained from June 23rd up till the 26th in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The examining-magistrate decided then that there was not sufficient evidence against Van der Sloot and released him.
His lawyer thought that he was no longer a suspect and instituted a lawsuit for compensation. During the hearing of this lawsuit it appeared that the Public Prosecutor (OM) was still considering him as suspect. Lawyer Swaen was very surprised to hear this, because in an earlier letter he was told that his client was no longer a suspect. Swaen asked for a copy of the report, which he was denied because his client was not a suspect. The judge ruled yesterday that Van der Sloot is indeed no longer a suspect and that his compensation case can continue. He has to submit a foundation of the claim not later than December 1st and the OM has two weeks to react. The Court will decide on the claim early next year. The OM can also appeal yesterday’s decision of the Court.
[English language original text]
11.13.2005
They are interested in the version related to the investigation
U.S. requests declaration from head of Natalee’s investigation
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): As was previously published in Friday's edition, from sources generally in good standing, and it is DIARIO’s understanding that ‘Foreign Affairs’ has recently received a request from the US.
Apparently, the letter mentions that Washington is very interested in the matter of the disappearance of Natalee. It seems that government officials want a communiqué about how the investigation is going at this current time.
According to the source, there hasn’t yet been an answer nor has it been decided who will handle the request from American Congress members. It is not excluded that, according to our information, the justice department can give a communiqué exclusively according to the system and laws, they can give the FBI a version of the case.
It is not known in this case if there will be a delegation sent to America, headed by Attorney General Mrs. Teresa Croes Fernandez-Pedra related to the request, which at the moment is awaiting the competent authorities. In the course of Monday, there could be clarification about the letter sent from the US which is being handled by the department of Foreign Affairs.
[translated by Getagrip]
U.S. requests declaration from head of Natalee’s investigation
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): As was previously published in Friday's edition, from sources generally in good standing, and it is DIARIO’s understanding that ‘Foreign Affairs’ has recently received a request from the US.
Apparently, the letter mentions that Washington is very interested in the matter of the disappearance of Natalee. It seems that government officials want a communiqué about how the investigation is going at this current time.
According to the source, there hasn’t yet been an answer nor has it been decided who will handle the request from American Congress members. It is not excluded that, according to our information, the justice department can give a communiqué exclusively according to the system and laws, they can give the FBI a version of the case.
It is not known in this case if there will be a delegation sent to America, headed by Attorney General Mrs. Teresa Croes Fernandez-Pedra related to the request, which at the moment is awaiting the competent authorities. In the course of Monday, there could be clarification about the letter sent from the US which is being handled by the department of Foreign Affairs.
[translated by Getagrip]
Eric Zaandam, president of SPA [police union]
People must rest assured that our judicial system is working correctly!
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) – The president of the police corps union, Mr. Eric Zaandam, did an interview with DIARIO related to the direction in which the whole situation of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is now going.
Without a doubt, this seems like an endless matter, given that the Alabama Governor has started planning a boycott against Aruba in America, and here in Aruba, the Parliament came to a decision that an investigation into the investigative process and our involved authorities will take place, even with the intention to remove certain functionaries.
One could feel in Eric Zaandam’s voice a tone of sadness and disappointment about these latest developments, at a moment where he has given his strong opinion.
First of all, the words expressed by Mr. Zaandam are for the all the people of Aruba, who have given their unconditional support to the judicial system of our country.
According to Mr. Zaandam, he has been able to observe that there are people who want to create problems for the credibility of our justice system, they want to question the credibility of justice and for many of them, their motives are clearly personal, what has happened on various occasions and many others, for one reason or another, don’t like certain members of KPA or the prosecution.
“We must be very aware and this is a plea for the people of Aruba, to always have confidence in the police corps, in the prosecution’s office and in our judges.
Because the system that we have doesn’t favour anyone in any case. All cases are independent, all cases have to be presented not to say that it for family reasons that they will be favoured.
In what concerns the prosecution’s office, it is an institution which is completely independent, as well as our Organization of Judges who are appointed by the Kingdom, independently.
It is my belief that the people have to rest assured that justice is proceeding as it should”, Mr. Zaandam said emphatically.
[translated by Getagrip]
People must rest assured that our judicial system is working correctly!
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN) – The president of the police corps union, Mr. Eric Zaandam, did an interview with DIARIO related to the direction in which the whole situation of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is now going.
Without a doubt, this seems like an endless matter, given that the Alabama Governor has started planning a boycott against Aruba in America, and here in Aruba, the Parliament came to a decision that an investigation into the investigative process and our involved authorities will take place, even with the intention to remove certain functionaries.
One could feel in Eric Zaandam’s voice a tone of sadness and disappointment about these latest developments, at a moment where he has given his strong opinion.
First of all, the words expressed by Mr. Zaandam are for the all the people of Aruba, who have given their unconditional support to the judicial system of our country.
According to Mr. Zaandam, he has been able to observe that there are people who want to create problems for the credibility of our justice system, they want to question the credibility of justice and for many of them, their motives are clearly personal, what has happened on various occasions and many others, for one reason or another, don’t like certain members of KPA or the prosecution.
“We must be very aware and this is a plea for the people of Aruba, to always have confidence in the police corps, in the prosecution’s office and in our judges.
Because the system that we have doesn’t favour anyone in any case. All cases are independent, all cases have to be presented not to say that it for family reasons that they will be favoured.
In what concerns the prosecution’s office, it is an institution which is completely independent, as well as our Organization of Judges who are appointed by the Kingdom, independently.
It is my belief that the people have to rest assured that justice is proceeding as it should”, Mr. Zaandam said emphatically.
[translated by Getagrip]
During a meeting in Holland
Minister Bot finds the matter of the boycott against Aruba a delicate one
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Information out of The Hague shows that in the meeting of the Council of ministers of the Kingdom, Friday November 11 2005, the topic of the Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s boycott against travel to Aruba was broached.
Although this point was not on the agenda of the Council of ministers of the Kingdom, substitute Plenipotentiary Minister, Mrs. Ella Tromp-Yarzagaray brought this forward given the urgent character of this issue.
After giving a summary of the latest developments and a description of the eventual consequences of an American boycott of Aruba, the mandatory made a petition to the Kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ben Bot, to get in contact with his American counterpart, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.
Aruba is of the opinion that American authorities have to come out with a stronger declaration in the American press in regards to the action taken by the Alabama Governor, saying that the American Government does not support a boycott.
Minister Bot said that he will do this, but added that one must act with much precaution, because this case is very delicate. The Council of ministers of the Kingdom in its totality showed their solidarity to Aruba and emphasized the urgency of this issue.
Another point dealt with at the meeting of the council of ministers of the Kingdom is the installation of the Round Table Commission which counts with the participation of the Minister President of Holland, Minister President of the Antilles and Minister President of Aruba, as well as the installation of the Preparatory Round Table Commission which will do the preparatory work for the future nation restructuring of the Antilles.
It was decided that for most likely the date of November 26, 2005 there will be a Round Table Conference in Curaçao with the representatives of the 3 countries of the Kingdom and representatives of the insular territories.
Aruba brought forth that it supports the change to the Statute for the future restructuring of the Antilles of 5, but that this cannot turn around the autonomy of the country of Aruba.
Minister for Kingdom Issues Alexander Pechtold was in Aruba on the 15 of October and already had a conversation with Prime Minister Oduber about this matter.
[translated by Getagrip]
Minister Bot finds the matter of the boycott against Aruba a delicate one
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Information out of The Hague shows that in the meeting of the Council of ministers of the Kingdom, Friday November 11 2005, the topic of the Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s boycott against travel to Aruba was broached.
Although this point was not on the agenda of the Council of ministers of the Kingdom, substitute Plenipotentiary Minister, Mrs. Ella Tromp-Yarzagaray brought this forward given the urgent character of this issue.
After giving a summary of the latest developments and a description of the eventual consequences of an American boycott of Aruba, the mandatory made a petition to the Kingdom’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ben Bot, to get in contact with his American counterpart, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.
Aruba is of the opinion that American authorities have to come out with a stronger declaration in the American press in regards to the action taken by the Alabama Governor, saying that the American Government does not support a boycott.
Minister Bot said that he will do this, but added that one must act with much precaution, because this case is very delicate. The Council of ministers of the Kingdom in its totality showed their solidarity to Aruba and emphasized the urgency of this issue.
Another point dealt with at the meeting of the council of ministers of the Kingdom is the installation of the Round Table Commission which counts with the participation of the Minister President of Holland, Minister President of the Antilles and Minister President of Aruba, as well as the installation of the Preparatory Round Table Commission which will do the preparatory work for the future nation restructuring of the Antilles.
It was decided that for most likely the date of November 26, 2005 there will be a Round Table Conference in Curaçao with the representatives of the 3 countries of the Kingdom and representatives of the insular territories.
Aruba brought forth that it supports the change to the Statute for the future restructuring of the Antilles of 5, but that this cannot turn around the autonomy of the country of Aruba.
Minister for Kingdom Issues Alexander Pechtold was in Aruba on the 15 of October and already had a conversation with Prime Minister Oduber about this matter.
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Judge rules in his favour
Paul van der Sloot’s case for damages and prejudice
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Attorney Arie Swaen told our publication last night that there was a case yesterday in court where a judgment was handed down for the case brought by his client Paul van der Sloot for damages and prejudice.
He also indicated that there was a difference of opinion between the Justice Officer and the lawyer Paul van der Sloot, in which the former said that the case against van der Sloot had not ended, and the latter said that it had ended. Here is were he launched a case for damages and prejudice that he had to file within 3 months of his case ending.
On this point, the judge said that he considers the case against van der Sloot over, for which, he said, they have to continue with the case and go see what is the sum for the damages and prejudice and deliver a document on December 1 at the latest after the Officer has had the opportunity to react and give her point of view.
Attorney Swaen let it be known that after December 15 the judge will take 3 weeks to arrive at his decision.
He explained that in this case damages and prejudice is related to immaterial damages and material damages that his client assumed in what he had to go through and the expenses that he incurred during his incarceration.
At this moment, the status of Mr. Paul van der Sloot is still active at the government’s service until the end of the year, Mr. Swaen indicated. He added that he has been working on a contract basis for the last 15 years in Aruba, but due to what has happened with his son he cannot be present at his work.
Still, it has not been decided in a precise manner what sum Paul van der Sloot will ask for, for damages and prejudice, everything depends of what is the information and his possibilities in the future, if he will find work [with the government] or not, and how much he will earn, among other things, Swaen underlined.
[translated by Getagrip]
Paul van der Sloot’s case for damages and prejudice
DIARIO Aruba
11/12/2005
ORANJESTAD (AAN): Attorney Arie Swaen told our publication last night that there was a case yesterday in court where a judgment was handed down for the case brought by his client Paul van der Sloot for damages and prejudice.
He also indicated that there was a difference of opinion between the Justice Officer and the lawyer Paul van der Sloot, in which the former said that the case against van der Sloot had not ended, and the latter said that it had ended. Here is were he launched a case for damages and prejudice that he had to file within 3 months of his case ending.
On this point, the judge said that he considers the case against van der Sloot over, for which, he said, they have to continue with the case and go see what is the sum for the damages and prejudice and deliver a document on December 1 at the latest after the Officer has had the opportunity to react and give her point of view.
Attorney Swaen let it be known that after December 15 the judge will take 3 weeks to arrive at his decision.
He explained that in this case damages and prejudice is related to immaterial damages and material damages that his client assumed in what he had to go through and the expenses that he incurred during his incarceration.
At this moment, the status of Mr. Paul van der Sloot is still active at the government’s service until the end of the year, Mr. Swaen indicated. He added that he has been working on a contract basis for the last 15 years in Aruba, but due to what has happened with his son he cannot be present at his work.
Still, it has not been decided in a precise manner what sum Paul van der Sloot will ask for, for damages and prejudice, everything depends of what is the information and his possibilities in the future, if he will find work [with the government] or not, and how much he will earn, among other things, Swaen underlined.
[translated by Getagrip]
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