RSSIn Aruba, Some one Accusing the Government of Hiding Some thing and Protecting Someone? Say it Isn’t So
After thirteen long months in Aruba of calculated lies, questionable investigations, suspect interrogations and a concerted effort to conceal something with regards to the Natalee Holloway investigation we hear the following comments:
“… PDR finds it very strange that the Government announces in a letter dated May 18, 2006 that it was looking for documents and since then nothing else has been heard. Is the Government hiding something? Is the Government protecting somebody”?
Of course they are not referring to the Natalee Holloway investigation; however, it sure shows a pattern of behavior doesn’t it? People within the Aruban government are accusing its own Government of the very thing many are presently accusing Aruba of with the Natalee Holloway disappearance. What are you hiding? Who are you protecting?
(AM Digital, click on article to enlarge)
Just another aspect of Aruban goings-on that the NY Civil Court Judge should take a look at when making her final ruling as to jurisdiction. Is it really possible for the Holloway/Twitty family to get a fair trail in this atmosphere, climate or culture.
Gerold Dompig Officially Resigns From Aruban Police … ALE Suffers Brain Drain …
Commissioner Gerold Dompig is also abandoning ship know as the SS Aruban Police Force. Chief Commissioner Bernadina had earlier announced his plans to leave the ALE as well. Of course many of us that have been witnessing the lack of an investigation in the Natalee Holloway case had suspected that they may have quit sometime last summer. Now comes Dompig’s turn. First he was taken off the Holloway case and now out the door altogether.
It seems to be a pattern of all those who were in charge of the Holloway case are finding early retirement.
(AM Digital: Click on article to enlarge)
From this AM Digital article come some rather interesting and peculiar comments. First, which may have to be one of the more humorous comments of the article. 
Unless they were using sarcasm, that unfortunately I believe that was not the case.
We commented to Dompig that we are seeing a brain drain in the police force with the resignation of the Chief Commissioner and now his own.
With the investigation that was put forth and curious departure from normal police and investigative work with regards to Natalee … Aruba may wish to keep that drain open a bit longer.
What was even more interesting were the comments that Gerold Dompig made regarding the Chief of Police position presently held by the departing Bernadina. How much of the term “political” can be interchanged with “preferential treatment” or “cronyism”?
“Unfortunately in Aruba to much politics is involved which makes it difficult for a Chief Commissioner to function as he wishes to.” (Did those very politics that Dompig refers to play into the lack of investigation 101 in the Natalee Holloway case?)
Who the new Chief Commissioner will be is unknown to Dompig but he hopes that the Government will not again bring in somebody from the outside. (One wonders how often Dompig’s strings were pulled during this investigation? All to often he would make a positive comment only to contradict it with nonsense like in the Vanity Fair article.)
“When will we mature? When will we trust our own people”?
Bringing in a Dutch Chief again will not contribute to the progress of the police force.
Think there is not an issue and a power struggle between Aruba and the Dutch? One wonders how they solve any problems when there is obviously a greater issue simmering below the surface. Think Arubans are tired and frustrated with the Dutch dominance? Seems that way, at least according to Dompig.
Natalee Holloway Investigation … One Year Later … Aruba wanted an Apology from Beth Twitty
One year ago … July 6, 2005 … this nonsense was going on then. Watch and listen 
to the video from a “Day Side” interview with Janet Yearman. A woman, who considers herself an Aruban. Seems like she forgot where she came from and what are true priorities.
This woman was more intent on getting an apology from Beth Twitty for calling the Kalpoe’s criminals rather than investigating the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Only one month into the investigation and their was an opinion on the island that their pride was more important than the desperation of the mother of a missing teenager.
It is amazing to look back and see just how early in the investigation people had a rather peculiar outlook on the disappearance. Aruba wonders why it is in the predicament that it is today with tourism. All one has to do is look back and see what they were saying and thinking one year ago today.
Aruban Tourism Down Again; What Will it take to Wake these people Up? What Are they Hiding?
fourth quarter of 2005; they thought wrong. Of course there was the previously posted disastrous tourism numbers from Amigoe, Number of Airport passengers in Aruba dropped vigorously by 12.8 percent. Spin as they might have in the past and having all but lied about the declining tourism, Aruba finds itself in a pickle. For 2005, less passengers arrived at the Airport Reina Beatrix than in 2004. It appears that the decline continues. The number of cruising tourists decreased in April 2006 with 12.9 percent with respect to a year rather and came in 17.1 percent less cruising ships there. The number of tourists that by plane arrived, decreased with 14.7 percent.
3 percent in tourism is considered bad. But continual double digit losses. We go back and are reminded of the AP article that stated, the Boycott will have no affect. Want to make any more intelligent predictions?Gov. Bob Riley’s call for a tourist boycott of Aruba, where a Mississippi native has been missing since May 30, had little or no immediate impact and is unlikely to deter trips to the Caribbean island, travel experts said.
“We really have not seen a significant change in interest in travel to Aruba,” said Justin McNaull, AAA Travel spokesman.
But those who research boycotts say this one may be a futile effort.
ORANJESTAD – In the first trimester of 2006 less tourists came to Aruba than in 2005th this state in the maandbulletin over April by means of the airport 14.7 percent, which published the central bank of Aruba (CBA) recently.CBA do not have recent figures which show the spending amount of tourists. The last figures which Aruba Tourism Authority (ATA) published, dating January 2006. From those figures appeared that tourists in January 2006 spent 15.8 percent less than in 2005
Posted July 5, 2006 by Scared Monkeys Aruba, boycott, Economy, Judicial, Natalee Holloway | one comment |
C Band Talk Radio – Dana Pretzer – Sunday 07/02/06 , 10:00 EDT: Guest: Art Wood
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Tonights guest is Art Wood
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