RSSKalpoe Brother Also to be Released on Saturday
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) – A judge Friday ordered the release of two brothers suspected of being involved in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway, their lawyers said, ensuring that all suspects in the 3-month-old case will be freed.
The judge ruled that Deepak, 18, and Satish Kalpoe, 21, could go free on condition that they not leave Aruba and remain available to police, said attorneys Ruud Oomen and David Kock.
The brothers, Surinamese nationals, will be released Saturday, along with Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch teen who said he was with Holloway on a beach in the early hours of the day she disappeared, the attorneys said.
Although the judge on Thursday had ordered the brothers held for another eight days, he agreed Friday to their release “since the brothers were free for almost two months and made no attempt to evade justice and submitted themselves to any court proceedings,” Oomen told The Associated Press.
Natural Coral Bridge Collapses in Aruba
One of Aruba’s top tourist attractions crumbled today.
ArubaDag, the radio group of Aruba, has a great pictorial of it.
Natural Coral Bridge Collapses in Aruba
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – A natural coral bridge that spanned a cove along Aruba’s west coast collapsed before dawn Friday, destroying one of the island’s biggest tourist attractions.
The bridge, the largest of its kind in the Caribbean, was 25 feet high and 100 feet long, said Tourism Minister Edison Briesen. The cause was not immediately known, he said.
“It’s a very sad day for Aruba and for its tourism,” Briesen said. “A picture of the bridge appears in almost every promotional flier, and more tourists visit it than any other attraction.”
He stood among hundreds of Arubans who traveled along a bumpy dirt road to see what remained of the national treasure.
“The people who saw it always marveled,” said Julie Lacle, a 26-year-old taxi driver who often took tourists to the bridge. “They couldn’t believe how beautiful it was.”
The bridge, a formation of coral limestone cut out from thousands of years of pounding waves and strong winds, was a popular picnic spot. Hundreds of visitors walked across it each year.
First Joran being released, now the Coral Bridge collapsing. It is a sad day for Aruban Tourism.
Here is a picture Aruba Today sent to us. Click on picture for larger size.
Georgia Governor Lifts Gas Tax
The combination of the removal of the 4% + 7.5 cent gas tax and the ability to shed the ridiculous gas standards that were imposed on gasoline in the Atlanta metro area, should spell relief for the drivers in Georgia. This measure will last through the month of September. Now if we can keep improving the colonial pipeline transit rate, the gasoline issue in the state of Georgia will subside. It will be interesting watching removal of governmental regulation and taxes to see how the market reacts.
Maybe the federal government will get out of the fuel taxing business and help the American consumer. However, I doubt that will occur.
“We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans.”
These words were spoken today by President George W. Bush en route to the Gulf Coast area, “We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans.”
President Bush, facing scathing criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina, conceded on Friday it had been unacceptable as he visited the ravaged Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans.
“Where it’s not working right, we’re going to make it right,” Bush said. “We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans.”
Katrina’s aftermath presents Bush with his greatest emergency since the September 11, 2001, attacks. He has already been struggling with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency amid rising discontent with the Iraq war.
Before leaving the White House for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to view damage, Bush was blunt in his appraisal of what had been done in the four full days since the deadly storm struck on Monday morning.
“The results are not acceptable,” Bush said.
A woman’s skeletal remains were found near Hoover Dam
According to NBC 4, A woman’s skeletal remains were found near Hoover Dam in southern Delaware County, OH Thursday afternoon.
Columbus police said they were taking over the investigation following last month’s disappearance of Julie Popovich. The Reynoldsburg woman was last seen leaving a bar near the Ohio State University campus.
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