PHILIPSBURG–The Prosecutor’s Office has decided it will not be necessary to send E.E.R., the female Pointe Blanche prison administrator from Aruba detained on allegations of fraud, to Bon Futuro prison in Curacao. Prosecutor Dikran Sarian also said that although the suspect’s attorney had requested that she be transferred to the Pointe Blanche prison from the police [...]

Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm yesterday as it churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Felix was packing maximum sustained winds of 165 mph as it plowed [...]

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao: Hurricane Felix has become the second extremely dangerous category 5 storm of the season as it swept through the southern Caribbean on a path towards Central America and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, US forecasters said. On a similar - although more southerly - track as last month’s Hurricane Dean, which killed 27 people, Felix’s top [...]

Belize prepares for Felix…Beach woes in Jersey…Power outages in California ORANJESTAD, Aruba People in Belize are stocking up on supplies and boarding windows as Hurricane Felix churns toward them. The Category-5 hurricane with winds up to 165 miles per hour is over the Caribbean after knocking down trees and flooding homes on Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire.

Hurricane Felix has barrelled through the Caribbean with forecasters predicting a brush with Aruba and warning of its potential to strengthen. Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch for the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, popular tourist destinations in the Netherlands Antilles. A tropical storm watch also has been issued for Jamaica, which is [...]

ORANJESTAD–Aruba has stopped participating, for the time being, in the negotiations for new constitutional arrangements for the Netherlands Antilles constellation. Aruba’s decision was taken after negotiations with the Dutch Government on sharing the proceeds from the selling of Plant N.V. went sour. No money, no deal, State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten had said on Wednesday [...]

Aviva plc (”Aviva”) announces that its Dutch subsidiary, Delta Lloyd Group (”Delta Lloyd”) has sold for a cash consideration its 79.65 per cent holding in ENNIA Caribe Holding N.V. (”ENNIA”), a Dutch Antilles and Aruba based insurer, to Banco di Caribe N.V. in CuraГ§ao. The current total net asset value of ENNIA is в?¬19 million [...]

ORANJESTAD в?? Delays in the air traffic from Aruba are so substantial that several airliners are considering suspending their flights. Apparently the main reason seems to be due to the malfunctioning radar in CuraГ§ao, the use of outdated software and an unreliable radio communication between the control towers of the Reina Beatrix and Hato airports. [...]

by Dan McGee Thursday, August 25, 2005 I thought the commentary about the “Natalee Holloway,” madness was very interesting. As a journalist myself, I was wondering where he got the information about the dissention within the Twitty camp. Now this could be true, and if it is that shows me that the people, who came to Aruba to [...]

Driving home from a day with family in Pensacola last Saturday, I enjoyed a beautiful lightning show. While watching, I listened to a station playing jazz and world music. One song in particular caught my hear. The island rhythm made me want to dance. I pictured the beach at night with lots of food, smiles on [...]