Archive for the 'Environment' Category


The Casino at the Radisson pays out cash

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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, successfully undergoes EarthCheck Audit

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

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 [...]


Resort Clean Up Organized by La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

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 [...]


Aruba Birdlife Conservation established

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

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 [...]


De Palm Tours adopts a most important tourist attraction

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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 adopts a mile, and keeps it clean

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

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 [...]


De Palm Tours at the vanguard of the environment

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 [...]


ECO DMS orchestrating a clean sweep

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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 [...]


Successful Leatherback save!

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

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 [...]


La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club helps National Clean up Day

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

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 [...]