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May 7 to May 14, 2004 Volume 11, Issue 18 SINCE 1994 page 1 IN THIS ISSUE: Triathlon Club 6 ! The much anticipated new airline, a Referendum Chronicle 7 onaire and Curaçao again enjoy ferry Admiral ferry photo part of the Exel Aviation Group, will begin Fitness (The Plank) 8 service. On Wednesday, April 28th , the B service to the Antilles by 1 July 2004. Under Mother’s Day Art 8 ferry Tribon (Shark) made its first scheduled the name Dutch Caribbean Exel (DCE) it round trip. The 30-year old ship, originally Triton Newspaper 9 will fly three times per week round-trip be- named “Renga,” from Norway, underwent Turtle Nesting Season 10 tween Amsterdam and Curaçao. It will renovations in Curaçao over the last month. Rincon Day 2004 10 connect with BonairExel and eventually The trip was scheduled to take four hours to New BonairExel Family 13 with the South American network of sail from Kralendijk to Annabaai in Curaçao, ArubaExel. Curaçao has been named the Cinnamon Gallery Opening 15 but sometimes takes an hour or more longer. "hub" for the Exel network in the Antilles. Gardner (Oleander) 18 Returning to Bonaire, against the current and Flights will use a Boeing 767-300. Soon a wind, the ferry trip has been taking six hours recruitment campaign will begin for the hir- or more. WEEKLY FEATURES: ing and training of Antillean ground, cabin The ferry boat is scheduled to leave Bonaire Flotsam & Jetsam 2 and cockpit staff. Pilots will be trained in the every day at 6 am to arrive at Brionwerf in The Tribon at the Town Pier Netherlands but stewards and stewardess in Police Report 5 Willemstad at 10 am. At 5 pm the Tribon the Netherlands Antilles. Eventually about Letters (Sewage & Reef Health) 5 leaves Curaçao to arrive in Bonaire around 10 pm. However, last week the ferry was leaving 60 new employees will be stationed in Cura- Yacht List & Tide Table 9 up to three hours late from Curaçao. çao (Hato Airport). Windsurf Scene The Tribon can carry up to 17 cars (NAƒ250 each, including the driver) Passage is NAƒ50 Economy fares will begin from euro 449 and one-way trip and NAƒ85 round-trip. Children pay NAƒ45 and groups of more than 10 people (Wave Challenge Redux) 9 will go on sale around the end of May. pay NAƒ65 per person (children less). Discounts for 60 plussers. The Tribon can carry 150 Classifieds 12 A press release stated that the founding of passengers and is based in Kralendijk. Pet of the Week (Edgar) 12 DCE doesn’t mean that a cooperation with For more information, call 717-2690 or e-mail: [email protected] Picture Yourself the Curaçao’s Dutch Caribbean Airlines (Presque Isle Harbour) 12 ! The developer who has (DCA) is a dead issue. Analysts, on the other hand, predict the end of DCA once Hit Parade 14 been interested in rebuilding What’s Happening 15 Sunset Beach is redirecting DCE begins flying. An Exel executive said that there are no Shopping Guide 16 his efforts after the govern- Dining Guide 16 ments of Aruba and Bonaire plans to fly to the US before December came to an agreement on the 2004. On the Island Since property that didn’t include (Jose Velasco) 17 him. According to a bank offi- ! Successful Amsterdam businessman Erik Bonaire Sky Park 19 cial, the Government of Bon- de Vlieger, who owns more than 200 com- The Stars Have It 19 aire brought the Sunset Beach panies including the Exel Aviation Group, Resort property for an interest- severely criticized DCA management and Curaçao politicians last week, accusing free NAƒ2 million from the The old Sunset (Bonaire) Beach hotel in its heyday Aruba Housing Foundation them of only acting on behalf of their own DCA Miami office three days later) and the (FCCA) which does not have to be paid back for two years. The Bonaire Government is to interest and not that of the island. return trip south to Curaçao was 1½ hours open the biding to the public as soon as possible. This should break the logjam that allowed He referred to DCA as “a joke, manage- late because of a stop in Haiti that was not the abandoned property to become an eyesore in the middle of “Hotel Row.” ment-wise” and as “story tellers” who listed on our schedule, but was obviously The developer will most likely make a bid. In addition, the Divi chain, which had been look- come up with “flagrant lies.” These com- planned all along since more than half of the ing at the Esmerelda property owned by Niek Sandman, south of Lighthouse Beach, has re- ments upset some Curaçao elected officials. passengers disembarked in Haiti. portedly been approached by Bonaire officials to think about the Sunset Beach property as (We had to fly via DCA to Miami ourselves Our BonairExel flights to and from Curaçao well. last week. DCA lost one of our suitcases on were on time. Editors) the trip north (We had to retrieve it from the (Continued on page 4 page 2 New Page 1 http://www.bonairenews.com/advertisement page.htm5/5/2004 7:30:02 AM (Flotsam and Jetsam. Continued from page 2) and their schedule of flights between Bon- no evidence against me,” Monte argues, land Lt. Governor and not the Justice De- aire and Aruba, and Bonaire and Curaçao, “and I’m the only one being detained. Lut- partment so the women who arrived without visit their website at http://www.bonairexel. gendorff (ex-director of contractor De Antil- visas will have to return to their countries as com. len NV) is not (even) under arrest. I guess soon as possible, ordered Curaçao Lt. Gov- ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the ernor Lisa Richards-Dindial. ! The PAR party leader in the Central Gov- gander’ no longer applies.” He was quoted ! Commissioner of Social Affairs, James ernment Parliament, Pedro Atacho, has been by a local newspaper after the verdict was Kroon, said in a press conference that the asked by Antillean Governor Frits read. island government of Bonaire spends Goedgedrag to look into the possibility of Monte has nine counts against him: NAƒ7.4 million every year on medical forming a new Central Government with 1. embezzling from the Central Govern- treatments in foreign countries. Accord- “broad support” in Parliament and back- ment through Post NV (together with ing to Kroon, the Executive Council will Northeast L-1011 ing from all the islands. Basia Winkel Corp) have to take measures soon in order to ad- The agenda is: “willing to initiate the execu- 2. putting together a fraudulent agreement dress the expenses in the medical sector. tion of an urgency program concentrating on 3. creating a fraudulent debt note NAƒ2.7 of the NAƒ4.7 million is being ! NorthEast Airlines, a startup using the fighting poverty, bringing order to govern- 4. accepting bribes for a project of the spent on transportation and accommodation name of a venerable New England airline, is ment finances and tackling crime.” Winkel brothers at Caracasbaai expenses for medical treatments abroad. planning to fly charters from the US to According to a press release from the Gov- 5. accepting bribes from the Basia deal NAƒ1.1 million is spent on medical care, Curaçao among other Caribbean destina- ernor’s Cabinet, at this stage in putting to- with the Post Office and NAƒ3.6 on hospitalization. He indicated tions. It’s bought three ex-Transjet-Sweden gether such a government he wants to ex- 6. accessory to forgery of the “Public further that tighter control measures would Boeing 747s and has leased a 1974-built ex- plicitly draw attention to the desirability of Works” budget for main access roads at be taken. Bonaire pays NAƒ36 million for TWA Lockheed L-1011 to conduct charter considering persons who are not directly the airport medical care every year. But, according to flights. NorthEast Airlines has its base and involved in politics but have shown they 7. the use of the forged document in a Kroon, there are indications that these funds airline certification (AOC) in Mbabane, possess the required qualities in other sec- meeting of Curinta’s Supervisory Board are not being used efficiently and that in Swaziland, Africa, but is marketed by The tors of the community. 8. accepting bribes from contractor De certain cases there is also waste. Bonaire has Flightstar Group, Inc., and it has finance and Senator Jopie Abraham said in a radio inter- Antillen NV to cough up almost 50% of the NAƒ17.2 logistics support from offices in Miami and view this week with Sean Paton on the Eng- 9. laundering money through the Papa million. The AVBZ, SVB, National Gov- Fort Lauderdale, Florida. lish language program, “The Forum” (which Godett Foundation. ernment, and personal contributions of the Antilles spokesman for the new company is airs on Mega FM, Sundays and Mondays patients pay the remainder. Billy Jonkheer, who sees it benefiting em- Noon to 2 pm), that his party, the PDB ! Last week at Curaçao's Bon Futuro prison ployment and tourism. “With this you could, (Democrats-Red), had been invited to dis- the cells of Nelson Monte, ex-attorney ! A month ago we wrote that you couldn’t for example, be a home-port for cruise cuss joining a new Central Government and Leslie Franklin and Campo Alegré-owner pay your Central Government (Land) ships,” he said. would be willing to serve with the two Sena- Giovanni van Ierland were searched, as taxes (e.g.: OB) at the usual Ontvanger’s tors from Bonaire’s UPB (Patriotiko-Green) well as the house of Van Ierland’s mother Office.