Island visitor Shelli King, staying at the Occidental Grand cashed a giant jackpot of $1,700 when she dropped in for some slot play, visiting the Casino at the Radisson. Slot Tournament players Shirley Seidel, Carmen Koolman & Andres Flanegin, shared the $600 prize-money, as the three top tournament winners, while Ludwina Dykhoff won an iPod [...]
Divi Resorts Aruba have been busy for the past 18 months obtaining their EarthCheck certification. As a result of that process of introspection and inspection the environmental practices of Divi Resorts here have been recognized by EarthCheck, the world’s leading sustainable travel and tourism certification organization.
EarthCheck lends its stamp of approval only to those organizations [...]
La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club just recently organized a resort clean up recruiting room attendants, maintenance team members and managers, to scour the mile in front of the hotel and its environs. With over forty associates in attendance, including the President of the resort board, Willy Mosconi and his ever-supportive wife Fran, the cleaning-action [...]
Submitted by Greg Peterson
On May 11th, 2010, in the office of notary public Rodriguez-Taekema, a new foundation was established; the Aruba Birdlife Conservation with the aim of protecting the biodiversity in general and birds in and around Aruba in particular.
Among other things, the foundation will focus on increasing the survival chances of species of wild [...]
The historic chapel of Alto Vista, one of Aruba’s most valued and cherished tourist attractions was formally adopted by De Palm Tours.
De Palm Tours, Aruba’s largest fun and adventure tour company, ventured out with dozens of volunteers scouring the sun-kissed slopes of the hilly landscapes removing all debris entangled in cactus, and strewn around by [...]
Radisson Aruba Resort Casino & Spa once again scoured its adopted mile, the stretch of road between the resort on Palm Beach and the Mill Resort & Suites further toward Eagle Beach. A crew of energetic colleagues from the resort’s various departments, Accounting, Pool & Beach, Beverage and Laundry collected beer bottles and plastic [...]
The recent 8th annual national coastal cleanup mobilized 27 staff and family members of De Palm Tours who volunteered to participate in the effort. The company also donated the use of its Land Rovers as well as the use of 6 buses and their drivers, assigned to pick up dozens of volunteer school children and [...]
Management and staff members of ECO DMS, a full service destination management company dedicated to the meetings & incentives market, organized its own beach and road clean-up on Saturday, giving a clean sweep to the beachfront from the Marriott Aruba Resort to Tierra del Sol, covering the public waterfront and surrounding areas on the boulevard.
It [...]
A letter addressed to David Brown, Managing Director, Tierra del Sol Real Estate N.V., told a dramatic story.
Yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m. a Leatherback Sea Turtle of about 800 pounds, was found lost in between Tierra del Sol and the sea at the northern part of the island. After egg-laying the exhausted female Leatherback went [...]
The National Clean up organized by Parlamento Juvenil, took teams of local youngsters as far as the Sasaki highway, scouring for debris in the area around the Eagle Beach resorts from Adventure Golf and the Aruban Resort and Morgan’s Island, a giant circle that yielded 18 fifty-gallon bags of assorted trash, mainly glass bottles and [...]