The office of Notary Yarzagaray-Bodeker & Partners, had just completed the total renovation and restoration of L.G. Smith 12, a historical building, originally the political headquarters of Juancho Yrausquin and later, for many years, the home of Miles Administration, owned by the late hotelier Ike Cohen.
Notary Yarzagaray who purchased the building from Cohen spearheaded the project [...]
EQ3 Furniture + Accents on Schotlandstraat 45, across the street from Ling & Sons Supercenter is hosting two Designer Nights this week, two special events designed to help customers crack the code of interior design with contemporary flair.
Eric Martineau, EQ3’s Canada-based Director of Visual Merchandising, will be flown in especially on the occasion, held in [...]
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The Dutch Royal Family visited Aruba this past week, October 27th to the 29th, staying at the Radisson Aruba Resort Casino & Spa. The distinguished guests including her Royal Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander and his wife Princess Maxima, enjoyed a busy program here, packed with [...]
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The Aruba International Arts Foundation proudly launched a new CD production by renowned Aruban guitarist Ivan Jansen at the Divi Beach Resort. The elegant reception was offered under the stars, by the Divi’s Managing Director Alex Nieuwmeyer.
The fresh-off-the-press CD, titled HORIZONTE NOBO contains Jazz inspirations of Aruban music. The project is a Boston-Aruba collaboration with [...]
Amazonia Churrascaria showed its true international flavor on World Tourism Day 2011, entertaining the Kaplans, from New York, staying at the Westin, dining alongside colleagues from the Xavier School of Medicine, all living in Aruba, hailing from Dubai, the USA, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Bangladesh and India, and some colleagues and friends of Rancho Notorious, visiting here [...]
About one-hundred students from two elementary schools, Pieter Boer in San Nicolas and Pius X in Oranjestad, were guests of Fundacion Respeta Bida, Semper Corda, at the Wilhelmina Park in the gardens surrounding the Anne Frank statue. The purpose of the gathering was to educate students on the significance of peace and to make them [...]
Reported by Melissa De Veer: A disturbing trend caught fire just a few years ago, and it is still going strong. Unfortunately, more and more of the beautiful rugged North Coast landscape is being scarred by people stacking stones, pebbles and rocks on top of each other, and on top existing rocks.
The question is [...]
One of Aruba’s truly simple pleasures requires nothing more than hanging out at Divi Mega Resort, right by beach bar to listen to the Divi Jazz Quartet, on any given Sunday afternoon.
The quartet plays music which could easily be described as feet in Aruba, head in the sky! While resort patrons sip on their long, [...]
On Saturday July 2nd Renaissance Marketplace will celebrate the National Day of Curacao hosting an evening dedicated to the culture & tradition of our sister island.
For the past six years, a special committee aptly named Celebracion dia di Curacao, has dedicated efforts toward cultural exchange and mutual appreciation among the neighboring nations, resulting in the [...]
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Aruba’s Archeological Museum unveiled its Summer Vacation Program recently presenting the public with a diverse array of youth-oriented activities.
Parents are hereby encouraged to enroll their children in order to broaden their horizons in the Summer and put the time spent on vacation to good use, into physical activity and cultural enrichment
The modern, state of the [...]