Archive for the 'Environment' Category


La Cabana Plants Indigenous Trees

Monday, April 27th, 2009

A Watapana, a Wayaka and a Mispel were planted over the last few days at La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club in celebration of Earth Week 2009.
The theme for the week long festivities included the important “Rs,” namely Re-Live, Re-Educate, Re-Forest & Re-Nurture, beside the three “Rs” which are already observed at the resort, Reduce, [...]


La Cabana plants a Tamarijn

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Members of the Engineering Department and the Green & Health Team banded together to plant a Tamarijn, an indigenous tree to the island, just before the “Arubiano y su Tera” lunch-bag lecture.
Arubans have a special relationship with the place they call home and La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club has been celebrating Earth Week by [...]


La Cabana conducts two successful lunch-bag lectures

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

In honor of Earth Week celebrated at the resort, two special lunch-bag lectures were arranged designed to inform and entertain associates regarding Aruba water company, WEB, and the activities of the agricultural station Santa Rosa, in Santa Cruz.
Pictured here La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club staff members receiving the outside guest speakers with [...]


La Cabana’s Art Recycle Competition 2009 celebrates the earth

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Children of resort associates were invited to create a piece of art from recycled materials  for the resort’s 8th annual expo, held as part of the program for Earth Week Celebrations 2009.
Genesis Valdez and Yunaydy Olivero joined Daniella Yarzagaray as the three winners in their respective categories, Genesis for the toddlers, Yunaydy for the pre-teens [...]


La Cabana Hosts a Tree Planting Ceremony in the name of our kids, our future

Monday, April 20th, 2009

La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club organized a Watapana tree planting at the onset of the resort’s Earth Week Program 2009.
The Earth Week Opening Celebration was made very special by the planting of the tree which represented the educational process of green practices.
Pictured here La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club staff members including General Manager [...]


Professional Pest Control trains Master Technicians

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Roy Soderquist, the representative of Univar, the leading distributor in pest control products and equipment in the USA, came to Aruba just recently to jump-start the certification process of Professional Pest Control employees from Service Agents to Master Technicians.
The Master Technician course, upgrading knowledge and skill, has the of duration of 250 hours, when taken [...]


The wonders of life at Aruba’s Donkey Sanctuary

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Submitted by Mimi Medina
There is never a dull day at Aruba’s Donkey Sanctuary, where donkeys are having the time of their lives. Often having been maltreated or malnourished in the past, these formerly roaming animals are living in the lap of luxury nowadays, getting medication, food and lots of attention from [...]


Fibro is well and alive

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Executive Chef Matt Boland goes swimming and snorkeling almost every day, for various reasons, he explains, but mostly as a stress-busting, calorie-burning activity. Over the past years he has charted the waters around the hotels and he especially favors the area across from the Tamarijn beach resort where sea turtles live.
Chef Matt has been tracking [...]


Aruba Wild 2008 gives nature a voice

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Aruba Wild 2008, the 1st national congress for the preservation of Aruba’s wildlife is taking place on the island with open-to-the-public symposiums at La Cabana Beach & Racquet Club and specific workshops held at the Radisson Aruba Resort Casino & Spa.
The three day congress devoted to the island’s natural heritage, its flora and fauna dedicates [...]


Bucuti bans imported water bottles

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Submitted by Susan Biemans, Bucuti Beach resort & Tara Suites
Bucuti has banned the sales of imported bottled water in order to reduce pollution and to save valuable energy and resources in creating these bottles and transporting them from sources as far away as Fiji !
 
Further, only two beers available to import to Aruba engage in [...]