Aruba: One Sad Island

Its not just us saying it, from the pages of Diario. One would have thought they would have taken a concerted effort to make things right at this point.

Help the ATA … Create your own island slogan.

(Diario, 1/10/07)

• Two teens were stabbed
• Carnival Destiny moors for the last time in Aruba
• Prime Ministers Nelson Oduber’s New Year’s speech claims 2006 was a productive year
• The economics of white bread
• First 8 months of 2006 stay over visitors are down nearly 10% 
• Aruba Police Integrity
• The Three Suspects
• Who has caused the damage to Aruba?

The Dana Pretzer Show Tonight – 9 PM (Scared Monkeys Radio) Special Guest: Jossy Mansur

Please be sure to listen tonight live at 9:00 pm when Dana’s special guest will be Managing Editor of Aruba’s Diario newspaper, Jossy Mansur. He will shed insight on to the recent investigations in Aruba into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Jossy Mansur has been a one man wrecking crew lately with published reports from Diario regarding the three suspects, Joran’s defense attorney Carlo and the video tape of Gerold Dompig. News Jossy Mansur broke first on Scared Monkeys radio last week. Guests:

• 9:00PM Jossy Mansur
• 9:35PM Tim Miller (Texas EquuSearch) – HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY

UPDATE – The Show will re-air through the night. Click Here to listen to the Dana Pretzer Show for Monday 12/11/06 

Update: Podcast is now up.

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Diario … “THEY WENT INTO PANIC WHEN NATALEE REMAINED PASSED OUT”

From todays Diario, December 6, 2006, Caso Natalee Procesverbaal di polis hulandes ta mustra ‘NAN’ A DRENTA PANICO ORA CU NATALEE A KEDA ‘PASSED OUT’

Read the full translation of the Diario article below.

From this same official report one can deduct that Joran again throws the ball in Deepak Kalpoe’s corner, because he tells the Dutch officer that if they interrogate Deepak in the same manner that they interrogated Joran, then Deepak for sure will tell the truth. Which truth? How come the Dutch police officer did not ask Van der Sloot about which truth he was referring to?
 
Joran also said that if some weeks before they had interrogated him in the aforementioned manner, then the truth would have come out much faster!

THEY WENT INTO PANIC WHEN NATALEE REMAINED PASSED OUT

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Jossy Mansur … The Return of the Jedi … “Tacopina and his Criminal Client, Joran Van der Sloot

The other night on Fox News, “The Line Up”, Joe Tacopina made some rather irrational and unprofessional comments regarding Jossy Mansur and others. However, when one does not like or can do nothing against the message, they go after the messenger. Such is the case with Joe Tacopina. Joe Tacopina’s rant can be heard here. Jossy Mansur’s reaction and full editorial translation can be read below.

In today’s Diario editorial, Jossy Mansur fires back and calls the personal attack for what they were … petty, juvenile and idiotic. In the following comment Jossy Mansur makes a rather valid point.

But, I must bring to his attention that his terror tactics based on slander and defamation are not the adequate road an attorney must take to obtain his goal. For a person always threatening others with the courts for slander, he’s very loose with his expressions!

As Jossy Mansur states in his editorial Aruba … your image was not destroyed by Americans, it was damaged why those who live on Aruba who are foreigners as well.

Three persons damaged the name of Aruba internationally, and to top it all, all three of them happen to be all three happen to be foreigners. Not one of them is an Aruban! They threw a negative light on our with their uncontrolled action during one night in May.

Who are those three people that have caused irreparable damage to Aruba?

• One of them is the criminal client of Tacopina! (Joran Van der Sloot)
• And there are two of them who are even thinking of going to court in the U.S. for money! What do they want, a reward for what they did? A payment for having so badly damaged the name of Aruba? (Deepak & Satish Kalpoe)
  

TACOPINA AND HIS CRIMINAL CLIENT! (FULL EDITORIAL)

I gave indications to the criminal defense lawyer in the U.S., Tacopina, that if he continues his campaign to offend, slander and defame, he is going to get the surprises of his life when the truth of his client’s participation in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway becomes known. And it is coming out at a much faster pace than I expected, thanks to DIARIO and lately De Vries, who’se popular program in Holland made revelations that had remained hidden and have now come out into the light. Tacopina at once wanted to belittle him with a string of lies about his program and, worse yet, about the man himself. A ‘street style’ that will not prosper!

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Diario … Joran van der Sloot’s lawyer, Carlo, asked Joran “almost in tears” to tell the truth

From todays Diario, December 4, 2006: Documentonan policial ta mustra; ABOGADO DI JORAN VAN DER SLOOT a PIDI JORAN ‘CASI NA YORAMENTO’ PA BISA E BERDAD  (Translation to follow)

Police reports show: Joran van der Sloot’s lawyer asked Joran “almost in tears” to tell the truth

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently an investigative reporter in Holland made some revelations in Natalee Hollaway’s case during a special program on television, in which reportedly Joran van der Sloot’s lawyer spoke with Prosecutor Janssen and gave the prosecutor indications that Joran van der Sloot knows much more about Natalee’s case.

This show has made a huge impact in Holland, United States, Antilles and Aruba, because no one was aware of the alleged non formal conversation between van der Sloot’s lawyer and the main prosecutor Janssen, to indicate to the prosecutor that Joran knows much more than he has declared to authorities.

 Van der Sloot’s lawyer in Aruba, Mr. Carlo has denied that he had any non official conversation with prosecutor Janssen, and that his client knows more than what he declared to the police.

DIARIO’s investigative team published some parts of the police report made by a Dutch police officer during the investigation, which was an interrogation between the officer and van der Sloot:

“The suspect (Joran van der Sloot) said, as I (“I” is the Dutch officer) heard, that he (van der Sloot) asked his mother to contact by phone his witness Zedan Arambatzis, to find out what he told the police”.

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