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Saturday, January 12, 2013 Parliament gives the green light expansion and renovation of Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital Aruban florins ($1,714,285) Afghan President Karzai nee ded to complete the project is being underwritten by Stich- promises will step down ting Onroerend Goed (SOGA- Foundation Real Estate) which has performed such a service in 2014 in the past. This is in keeping with the current administra- tion’s policy of pursuing pub- lic/private partnerships for the improvement and advance- ment of Aruba’s infrastructure. The government will be “ren - ting” the facility from SOGA over the next 29 years. Work on the hospital will commence Minister of Public Health as soon as possible. Minister of Finance, Tele - and Sport Dr. Richard Minister Dr. Visser ex- communications, Utilties Visser plained the facility will have and Energy, Mike de Meza Two days of turbulent parlia- expanded capacity and ser - nurses’ stations. Thus, emer- mentary sessions took place in vices. The 320 beds will be gency services and equipment the early part of this week, re- nearly doubled. There will be will be much more easily ac- sulting in the final approval of a number of new outbuildings cessed. Waiting rooms will be a financing plan to allow ex- and patient floors will be reor- enlarged. tensive expansion and renova- ganized to centralize the Continued on page 3 tion of the Dr. Horacio E. WASHINGTON (AFP) Af- happily a retired president," Oduber Hospital, Aruba prime gha nistan's President Hamid he vowed, in response to a medical care facility. Karzaisaid yesterday that he question about the 2014 vote Minister of Finance, Tele- would stand down at the end at a joint White House press communications, Utilities and of his second term in 2014 conference with Obama. Energy, Mike de Meza, joined and allow a successor to be Obama and Karzai met for Minister of Public Health and freely elected. two hours before sitting down Sport, Dr. Richard Visser in "The greatest of my together for lunch and holding announcing the laws have been achievements eventually, seen their joint press conference. passed and a financing agree- by the Afghan people, will be Karzai was elected in 2004 ment approved to allow the a proper, well-organized, in- and re-elected in 2009, in two plan on Thursday morning, terference-free election in votes marred by allegations of January 10. The vote in among which the Afghan people can widespread electoral fraud the 21-seat parliament was 14 elect their next president," he and held against the backdrop for the measure, 4 against and said. of an ongoing war between 3 abstentions. "And certainly I will be a NATO-backed government Minister de Meza explained retired president, and very forces and Taliban guerrillas. that the 300,000 million 2 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Chamber of Commerce to host Biden: no 'silver bullet' to fix gun violence Business Plaza 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) - US cutives of video game and soft- auditorium. There will be se - Vice President Joe Biden said ware firms amid speculation veral speakers throughout the yesterday there was "no silver over the role violent content of day covering a diversity of bullet" available to beat the so-called "first person shooter" to pics to assist businesses of complex scourge of gun vio- games has on disturbed users all size to expand their mar- lence as his policy task force who later turn to real-life vio- kets and increase profitabil- sat down with video game pro- lence. ity. ducers. The vice president ques- Morning sessions will in- With another firearms tioned whether there had been clude “Strategic Marketing metaphor, Biden said he was a "coarsening of our culture" and Social Media” by Frits "shooting for Tuesday" to send over the years, but admitted he Israel of ID Aruba and his recommendations to Presi- did not know the answer to the “Sustai nable & Effective dent Barack Obama, who question. HRM for Entrepreneurs in a promised to use his power to Biden has been meeting all Shifting Economy,” with try to prevent new outrages the "stakeholders" with inte - Ryan Maduro of Independent after a school massacre in Con- rests in the guns issue, inclu - Organization Development necticut. ding victims of violence, law Consultants. Notary Hilde "We know that there is no enforcement organizations, KvK Director Leo Maduro, Shariska Odor and Sponsor Rodriguez-Taekema will silver bullet," Biden said, in- hunting groups and members Michael Leo van Romondt of Deloitte open the session with an ex- sisting that the question of how of the gun lobby. Director of Aruba Chamber The official opening will planation of expansion and to stop more deaths following On Thursday, the National of Commerce (Kamer van take place at 10:00 AM in the change of legal forms for a spate of mass shootings was Rifle Association said that Koophandel or KvK) Leo a difficult one. Biden cared more about Maduro invites all interested "I come to this meeting stamping out gun rights than in advan cing the quality of with no judgment." protecting school children after their business to attend the Biden sat down with exe - its representative attended a free “Busi - ness Plaza 2013: meeting with Biden. Step Forward!” which will be Gold bars found in Puerto conducted on Saturday, Janu- ary 19 at their KvK building on Irausquin Boulevard. The Rico point to Curacao heist event is being sponsored by Deloitte Financial Services SAN JUAN -- Eleven gold bars weigh a total of approxi- and other accounting compa- bars were found by US border mately 34.7 kilogrammes nies. The day will end with patrol authorities last month at (76.3 pounds) and have a total an introduction to “Europe an airport in Puerto Rico and value of around US$1.7 mil- Meets Americas” which will the precious metal is believed lion at the current gold price. take place from May 5 to 8 to have been part of the No- The gold bars were turned on Aruba, with the possibili- vember 30 heist aboard a over to the US Immigration ties it will present for local Guyanese boat in the Dutch is- and Customs Enforcement, entrepreneurs. land of Curacao. which is investigating the mat- doing business on Aruba. There had been earlier re- ter. Aruba’s Prime Minister ports that gold from the mind- Around 70 bars of gold Mike Eman will visit the boggling US$11.5M heist had were believed to have been event in the afternoon and made its way to the US but seized from the boat with a open the session on “Europe there had been no confirmed Guyanese crew and six per- Meets the Americas.” Preced- reports until a statement on sons have been detained in Cu- ing his visit will be a talk on Tuesday by the US Customs racao over the matter. The gold “Financial Decision for and Border Protection. Puerto is believed to have been smug- Smart Investment” by Ryan Rico is an unincorporated US gled from Guyana but local au- Kock of Atlas Accountancy. territory. thorities have not said whether Afternoon sessions will also The agency said that the there are pursuing any leads include “Going Green Bene- gold bars were found last here. They are awaiting docu- fits for your Company,” with month at the Rafael Hernández mentation from Curacao be- Freddy Vargas of Elmar NV International Airport in the fore releasing the details of a and “Care for Employees,” western city of Aguadilla. visit to the island by two offi- by Enrita Werelmen of E-con They had been shipped in cials of the Guyana Geology Social Consultancy Services. boxes from Curacao. and Mines Commission in the Chamber of Commerce Continued on page 5 Authorities said that the 11 wake of the heist. Saturday, January 12, 2013 3 Parliament gives green light . . . Continued from page 1 The number of single and double rooms will be greater. Labs will be enlarged and modernized. Specialists will be closer at hand, and the Emergency Room will also receive a major makeover to improve and speed treatment. There will be two elevator banks; one exclusively for staff and transporting patients to special services, the other for visitors and out patients. This will smooth the flow of traffic through the hospital. Along with new, modern equipment, the facility will receive a de corative make - over, so patients will find their hospital stay, which is usually a difficult time, far more cheerful, which encour- ages recovery. After close in- spection, it was found the main building is of sturdy construction and expansion is considered the best plan for Aruba’s hospital. Rosalie Klein Opportunity to pay motor New laws will augment social security vehicles tax on Saturdays payments, special requirements for begins today additional benefits 8:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. non- stop. Motorists can claim their number plate right after mak- ing their payments, until 2:00 p.m. Clients wishing to pay other ORANJESTAD – The Tax De- kind of taxes can also do so partment announces to all mo- during these Saturdays. torists that as of today, January Please take notice that this 12, 2013, they can pay their extra service is only at the motor vehicle taxes on Satur- main tax offices at Camacuri days. The main tax office at and not at any of the auxiliary Camacuri will be open for this government offices on the is- purpose every Saturday until land. February 16, 2013, aside from The Tax Department antici- regular office hours during the pates providing assistance to as SVB Director Gino Croes and Pension Fund Director Form to be filled for an addi- week. many clients as possible during Luis Tromp tional 50 florin monthly Opening hours are from the coming days. Gino Croes, Director of the Aruban florins monthly to be their Aruban social security, SVB, which handles a num- paid to individuals who de- are not eligible for the addi- ber of social services award- pend on their Aruban social tional monthly stipend. ing payments to citizens, and security, with no other form Those who are eligible Luis Tromp, Head of the De- of income. must fill in the form, which is partment of Social Security Mr. Croes explained that presented in both Dutch and (AOV), welcomed island over the next month, all those Papiamento, and file it by media to their office on the inscribed with the SVB and March 31, to obtain the addi- Vondellaan to explain the receiving Social Security tional benefits. Each appli- new increase in social secu- benefits will receive notifica- cant will be investigated, and rity payments retroactively tion via post and a form to fill misinforming the SVB re- effective January of this year. in to apply for the additional garding additional income It was announced on Tues- 50 Aruban florins. Individu- will be penalized with a day, January 8 that new laws als who also receive social 1,500 Aruban florins fine. have been passed which will security from Holland, or are Applications can be filed at increase the social security included in complementary the SVB office on the Von- benefit paid monthly by 50 pension plans from the gov- dellaan in Oranjestad, or in Aruban florins ($28), across ernment, insurance compa- their branch office in San the board. However, a new nies, the tourism pension Nicolas. regulation was passed that plan, or have any sort of sup- will allow an additional 50 plemental income outside of Continued on page 5 4 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Susan Friedman and Arthur Pearsall “Mary Joan Foundation Support Group” searching honored at the Divi Phoenix Resort for people with interest in voluntarism Mary Joan “Foundation” dation would like to continue would like to say thank you to spreading awareness on breast the Aruban community, for cancer and is in search of vo- Recently, Mr. Arthur Pear - token of appreciation to that they have been coming to their support over the past five lunteers. sall and Mrs. Susan Fried- guests who visit Aruba for Aruba for 17 straight years, years. During 2012, the foun- A volunteer meeting has man from Pleasantville, NY, more than 10 consecutive and they are looking forward dation has been very active and been programmed on January were honored as Distin- years. to be honored as an Ambassa- successful. The organization 15th, and the location will be guished Vi sitors, after re- Mr. Ricardo Croes, repre- dor of Goodwill in 2016. held special support group the meeting room at Fantastic turning to Aruba for their senting Aruba Tourism Picture shows Mr. Croes mee tings for their clients, Gardens. Anyone who wishes 17th conse cutive visit. The Autho rity, presented them together with Susan and spread the word on awareness, to join the foundation as a vo - symbolic honorary title is with a certificate at the Divi Arthur and GM Mr. Griffith provided social and psycho- lunteer is welcome from 20:00 presented in the name of the Phoenix Resort and Aivil from the Divi logical support, lectures and to 21:00, where information Minister of Tourism as a Mr. Arthur commented Phoenix Resort. organized several fundraising will be given on the type of activities during the year. volunteers that are needed and The foundation would have where you could sign up. never accomplished all their For more information goals if it was not for the active please call the Mary Joan support of volunteers, who of- Foundation office (Sabana fered their time and experience Blanco #8) at 588–9999. Of- to the cause. After another suc- fice hours are from 7:30 – cessful year Mary Joan Foun- 12:30 and from 13:30 – 16:30. Saturday, January 12, 2013 5 Chamber of Commerce to host Business Plaza 2013 Continued from page 2 Simultaneously taking place with the morning lectures are a series of workshops on bookkeeping and taxes as well as business planning, where attendees can get more personalized advice. Aruba’s Free Zone, The Department of Economic Affairs & In- dustry, Customs Department and the Tax Office, SIAD, will have a market place in the Multimedia Library throughout the day to answer questions and discuss partic- ular issues. The entire day of business advice, information and net- working will be from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM, and atten- dance is free. Snacks and re- freshments will be included. Pre-registration, as places are limited, is essential. Inter- ested parties can register and obtain more information on- line by visiting the KvK web- site: www.arubachamber.com or e-mailbusinessinfo@ arubachamber.com. To con- tact the KvK directly, call 582-1866 extension 30 or 27. Rosalie Klein New laws will augment social security payments,... Continued from page 3 The additional 50 florins pay- ment will begin in the month of May and be retroactive for the four months prior, so pay- ments of the 200 florins due from January 1 will take place in the May payment. Court drama over US cinema massacre trial Social Security payments are not made at the end of the CENTENNIAL (AFP) - The Thursday that Holmes will mediate removal from the nesses who gave chilling ac- month, but on the 3rd of the father of a victim of the Co - face trial over the late night room by guards. counts of the slaughter, and month they are due. Social lorado cinema massacre yelled massacre in Aurora, outside Holmes is accused over the played 911 emergency calls in Security recipients are ad- "rot in hell!" at the alleged Denver, last July. July 20 shooting at a midnight which the chaos and loud vised to inquire at one of the gunman yesterday, when a But the suspect's defense screening of the Batman booms of gunshots could be SVB offices if they have not judge delayed officially char - lawyers objected to the ar- movie, "The Dark Knight clearly heard. received their notification ging him a day after ruling he raignment -- the official laying Rises." The massacre briefly Holmes's lawyers had been and forms by around the 15th stand trial. of charges, when Holmes will revived America's perennial expected to present witnesses of February. Four or five people walked enter a plea -- yesterday, when debate about gun control. to bolster a case that he may be For more information, in- out of court after judge it was meant to take place, and Witnesses said Holmes mentally unfit to stand trial. quire at the SVB offices dur- William Sylvester postponed the judge postponed the hea - threw smoke bomb-type de- But in the end they an- ing working hours, telephone for two months a hearing to ar- ring until March 12. vices before opening fire ran- nounced they would not, and num ber 527-2700 or visit raign James Holmes, the 25- After the announcement domly with weapons including the judge ruled Thursday, in an their website:http://www.svb year-old who is accused of several people left the court an AR-15 military-style rifle, a order posted online, that pros- aruba. org/pensioen/seguro- shooting 12 moviegoers dead and shortly after Steve Hernan- 12-gauge shotgun and a .40- ecutors had established there di-biehes/ and injuring at least 58 others. dez, father of victim Rebecca caliber pistol. was "probable cause" to be- Following preliminary hea - Wingo, shouted "Rot in hell, Over three days earlier this lieve the defendant committed Rosalie klein rings this week it was ordered Holmes!" prompting his im- week, prosecutors called wit- the crimes. 6 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Obama: US moves to support role in Venezuelan VP visits ailing Afghanistan 'this spring' Chavez in Cuba again CARACAS (AFP) - Vice Pre - Leopoldo Lopez, an oppo- WASHINGTON (AFP) - US would come a little quicker rity and protection." sident Nicolas Maduro yester- sition leader, said Chavez's President Barack Obama and than planned. The presence of US troops day visited ailing Venezuelan failure to turn up to his own his Afghan counterpart Hamid "Because of the progress in a training and support role President Hugo Chavez in ceremony had created "an un- Karzai said yesterday that that has been made in terms of after 2014 would depend on the Cuba, a day after the leftist defined situation in which we American forces would hand Afghan security forces, their United States negotiating a se- leader's inauguration in Cara- can be without a president, and the lead in the fight against the capacity to take the lead, we curity agreement with Afgha - cas was replaced by a huge without clear signs that the Taliban to Afghan forces in the are able to meet those goals nistan that would give them rally. president is governing." next few months. and accelerate them some- protection from Afghan law. Maduro, 50, has delivered The Supreme Court has "Starting this spring, our what," Obama said. "And if we have a follow- somber updates about the ab- ruled the cancer-stricken troops will have a different Karzai agreed, saying: "I'm on force of any sort, past 2014, sent leader's delicate condition Chavez can postpone his mission -- training, advising, very happy to hear from the it has got to be at the invitation which has plunged Venezuela swearing-in indefinitely, and assisting Afghan forces. It will president as we also discussed of the Afghan government and into uncertainty in the past the government has not given be a historic moment and an- earlier that in spring this year, they have to feel comfortable month, with the opposition an indication of when the other step toward full Afghan the Afghan forces will be fully with it," Obama told the White calling for a medical board to leader might return. sovereignty," Obama told a responsible for providing secu- House news conference. assess Chavez's condition. It was the last legal hurdle joint news conference. rity and protection to the "I will say and I've said to That demand was rejected to a government plan for re- Obama said US forces Afghan people. President Karzai that we have by the Supreme Court, and in solving the vacuum created by would "still be in harm's way" "And that the international arrangements like this with his latest update Maduro -- Chavez's illness that met fierce in Afghanistan after the hand - forces, the American forces, countries all around the world. who previously visited Chavez resistance from the opposition, over, at least until 2014, but will be no longer present in the And nowhere do we have any -- said that on the the upcom- which had argued it was un- would take a backseat to villages, that it will be the task kind of security agreement ing trip he would relay details constitutional. Afghan forces in offensive op- of the Afghan forces to provide with a country without immu- of support received from re- In a significant endorse- erations and the drawdown for the Afghan people in secu- nity for our troops." gional leaders. ment, the head of the Organi- West African bloc authorises troop In power for 14 years and zation of American States said re-elected in October, Chavez in Washington yesterday that was supposed to be sworn in to the hemispheric body "fully re- deployment in Mali a new six year term on Thurs- spects" the decision to indefi- day, but the government inde - nitely postpone Chavez's LAGOS (AFP) - The chairman tion Economic Community of The situation has evolved finitely postponed the event swearing in. of west African bloc ECOWAS West African States expressed rapidly in recent days. after the president suffered a "The issue has been re- yesterday authorised the im- its "deep concern following the The Islamists captured severe lung infection. solved by the three branches mediate deployment of troops deterioration of the situation in Kona earlier this week and The opposition meanwhile of government of Venezuela: to Mali, a statement said amid Mali". moved about 1,200 fighters to called for counter-demonstra- it was presented by the exec- an offensive against Islamists It added that it was espe- within 20 kilometres (12 tions on January 23, the day in utive, considered by the legis- who control the country's cially concerned "over the cur- miles) of Mopti, a strategically 1958 that began Venezuela's lature and decided by the desert north. rent attempt by terrorist occu - important town on the frontier modern democratic era with judiciary," OAS secretary The statement came after pation forces to take the city of between rebel-held and gov- the ouster of its last military general Jose Miguel Insulza Mali's army said troops from Kona and advance toward the ernment-held territories. dictatorship. said. Nigeria, Senegal and France south on positions held by the There have been concerns were deployed in support of Malian armed forces." in west Africa over the risks government forces in their of- The statement did not give posed by the Islamists and fensive against Islamists in the further details on troop deploy- criminal gangs operating in country's centre. ments. An army spokesman in northern Mali. Those concerns Mali yesterday declared a Nigeria, which has the largest include speculation over state of emergency and un- military in the bloc, said he whether northern Mali groups leashed the offensive against had no information on the sit- and Islamist extremist group the Islamists amid growing uation. Boko Haram in Nigeria have fears of the country becoming Nigeria, where ECOWAS begun to cooperate more an Afghanistan-style haven for headquarters is located, had closely. extremists within easy reach of earlier pledged 600 troops for US General Carter Ham, western Europe. the force. head of US Africa Command, The UN Security Council France has led calls for an has said he was concerned has given its blessing for a international response but had about indications of growing 3,000-strong African force to be until yesterday insisted that its links between African extrem- sent to Mali but it was not ex- involvement would be limited ist groups that could pose a pected to be ready to deploy be- to providing logistical support threat across the continent as fore September at the earliest. for the force being prepared by well as to Europe and the In its statement, the 15-na- ECOWAS. United States. Saturday, January 12, 2013 7 International News Saudi king names women to Shura Council for first Years after quake, Haitian time homeless feel abandoned RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi said he would also name King Abdullah has appointed them to the Shura Council up trying to run classes in a tent women for the first time to a because "we refuse marginal- in the Marassa camp, just out- top advisory body, with de- ising women's role in the side the capital, where 5,000 crees published on Friday Saudi society in all fields." people cling to life beside a marking a breakthrough in a Saudi Arabia has seen dangerous river. kingdom that imposes strin- many changes since Abdullah "We have been abandoned gent restrictions on females. became king in 2005. by the authorities. January 12 The historic decisions Norah al-Fayez became will be the anniversary of three mean that 30 women will the first woman ever named years of suffering, misery and now be allowed to sit on the to a ministerial post in 2009 contempt," he spat. previously all-male 150-seat when she was given named Global aid agency Oxfam, Shura Council, although fe- deputy education minister for one of several foreign develop- males in Saudi Arabia are women's education. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - complain that rebuilding and ment bodies engaged in the re- banned from driving and de- More recently, Saudi Three years after Haiti was re-development has been too construction effort, say nied the right to travel with- women broke ground when devastated by a massive earth- slow. progress has been made, but it out male consent. two of them took part in the quake, hundreds of thousands Around 358,000 people are is often seen as piecemeal and The decrees were wel- London Olympics. of homeless people are still at still living rough in scores of uncoordinated, lacking in cen- comed by female Saudi nov- But in the oil-rich king- risk from crime, disease and the camps scattered around the tral government direction. elist Badriya al-Bishr as a dom, women rights are stifled elements in crowded makeshift capital Port-au-Prince and sur- And the dangers have been "promise kept" by the king, daily and lag far behind inter- camps. rounding districts, exposed to a underlined by a series of fol- who has been treading care- national standards. The 2010 disaster triggered crime wave, a cholera outbreak low-up tragedies, such as the fully over the years to em- Since November, each a global outpouring of sympa- and -- from time to time -- hur- cholera outbreak apparently power women in his push for time a Saudi woman travels thetic rhetoric and pledges of ricanes. triggered by sewage from a UN reforms. outside the kingdom she is aid for the already impover- "We are without support," military base and that claimed The 30 chosen women in- being monitored by an elec- ished Caribbean nation, but res- complained Wisly Decimus, a 8,000 lives and sickened more clude university graduates, tronic system that sends text idents and aid agencies former teacher who has given than 635,000 people. human rights activists and messages to the phones of her Russia to allow 'some orphans' to be two princesses. male guardian, even if they Also among them is Thu- are traveling together. raya Obaid, a veteran UN ad- The electronic tracking adopted in US ministrator who served was swiftly condemned on notably as executive director social network Twitter and by MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian dent Vladimir Putin's Russia adopted the law in of the UN Development Pro- women rights activists, while children whose adoptions have spokesman Dmitry Peskov reprisal for new US legislation gramme and undersecretary Bishr criticised "the state of already been approved by told AFP. that targets Russian officials general of the world body. slavery under which women courts will go to the United He declined further details, who have allegedly committed But the decrees stipulated are held" in the ultra-conser- States despite a blanket ban on but Russian officials say 52 rights abuses. strict guidelines for allowing vative kingdom. all American adoptions, a children were in the process of Kremlin children's rights women into the once all-male In an interview with AFP Kremlin spokesman said on being adopted by US parents enclave, saying men and this week, Prince Talal bin envoy Pavel Astakhov said, Friday. when the controversial ban on women will be segregated in- Abdul Aziz, a half brother of citing a preliminary figure, "Those who have received a US adoptions came into force side the council. King Abdullah, said the that 52 children were at vari- court decision will go," Presi- January 1. Women will be seated in a Shura Council must be em- ous stages of being adopted by special area and enter the powerd to legislate and criti- Americans and that he had re- council through a separate cised clerics who reject calls quested firm data from the ed- door so as not to mix with ucation ministry. for women to be allowed to their male colleagues. "Currently no-one can tell drive. Abdullah had been care- for sure -- these are children fully treading towards "How can it make sense to from Kamchatka to Kalin- change, introducing munici- allow a driver (a male ingrad," he told AFP, referring pal elections for the first time stranger) to stay in the house to Russia's western and eastern in 2005. day and night while prohibit- borders. In 2011 he granted women ing mixing between sexes "This is all very individual. the right to vote and run as and women from driving? Every child is in a different sit- candidates in the next local "Do we not have confi- uation, at a different stage. election, set for 2015, and dence in our women?" 8 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Health & Living Sao Paulo to force treatment on crack Fundacion Sinta Ros visited addicts by Mary Joan Foundation tion travelled to Curacao last SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazil's residue of cocaine-making, November for a five day richest city Sao Paulo will start with a million users, says a re- visit. The group received a rounding up the most down- cent study by the Federal Uni- special invitation from The and-out crack addicts from its versity of Sao Paulo. Fundacion Sinta Ros of Cu- streets and make them get A downtown Sao Paulo racao, which is also offering treatment whether they like it crack slum was cleaned out in support to those with breast or not, an official says. a wave of police raids a year cancer. Rio de Janeiro is already ago. But dealers and users are Preparations for the trip doing this with minors, but the now moving in back in by the and the fundraising was led new program in Sao Paulo, hundreds. by Rosa van der Biezen and a South America's largest city, De Sousa acknowledged the few other women who also will target adults, said the jus- delicate nature of forcing treat- participated in the trip. tice secretary of Sao Paulo ment on people. She insisted Thanks to several business state, Eloisa de Sousa, in an in- however the program is for ad- owners and friends who do- terview with AFP. dicts so far gone they can no nated towards coffie morn- For now 700 spots in the longer look after themselves. ings. mandatory rehab program Brazil's congress plans to President of the Fundacion have been created. It will get Sinta Ros, Mrs. Angeline de started later this month. vote in February on a bill that Ron-Tromp opened her home Economic powerhouse toughens penalties for drug to receive the Aruba delega- Brazil is now considered the trafficking and calls for forced tion of the Mary Joan Foun- world's top consumer of crack, treatment for crack addicts all dation. The group a cheap and highly addictive over the country. participated in Curacao's an- Massive US flu outbreak nual walkaton and were proud to lead the procession claims at least 18 lives carrying the Mary Joan Foun- dation banner ahead of the thousands of participants. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The firmed cases of the flu, almost Joana Dirksz won a prize for United States was in the grip 10 times the number from this her outfit creativity during Thursday of a deadly influenza time last year. the walkaton. outbreak that has hit harder and Flu strikes every year, bring- The Aruba delegation earlier than in previous years, ing chills, fever, coughing and shared in an interchane of and has claimed the lives of at achy misery to millions. ideas during an evening gath- least 18 children. Health officials said the flu ering, and were invited by the "The type of flu is one that vaccine is a good match for the Curacao group to participate generally is more serious. It's strain of influenza circulating in future activities of the the H3N2 variety, which is his- around , and confers about 60 Sinta Ros in Curacao. torically more serious than we percent to 65 percent protec- Nutrition is very important see with other types of virus, tion against the illness. to the MJF clients. And, at the Anthony Fauci, director of the In addition to being inocu- Umbuto Wellness Center National Institute of Allergy lated against flu, health offi- they enjoyed a delicious veg- and Infectious Diseases." told cials recommend such basic etarian dish, thanks to AFP. prophylactic procedures as fre- Cheraldine Osepa. The group The epidemic, which broke quent hand washing, and visited several touristic areas out in early December, has coughing or sneezing into one's such as Barber, Dolfine Habi- caused some 2,200 hospitaliza- sleeve to keep the illness at tat, Punda and Otrobanda and tions across the United States, bay. several other places. federal health officials said. Some U.S. health facilities Special thanks to Angeline Particularly hard hit has even are making flu shots a de Ron, President of the Fun- been the northeastern city of condition of employment, al- dacion Sinta Ros and her Boston, where officials have though one critical-care nurse spouse, as well as all the declared a public health emer- made headlines recently for re- -- Clients of Mary Joan Foun- exchange of information. ladies of the foundation for gency. fusing the injection -- insisting dation visited Fundacion A group of clients of their warm welcome and the City officials said there have she would rather be fired than Sinta Ros in Curacao for an Aruba's Mary Joan Founda- enjoyable stay in Curacao. so far been about 700 con- take the vaccine. Saturday, January 12, 2013 9 Sci-Tech Astronomers Personal computer sales slip during Thief posts own picture spot biggest holiday season on victim's Facebook structure in page Universe SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - devices such as tablets. Personal computer sales Windows 8 was designed slipped at the end of last year, with touch-screen capabilities returned from a weekend PARIS (AFP) - Astronomers despite the holiday shopping in mind and to make it easier break to find thieves had bro- on Friday said they had ob- season and the release of new to synchronize computer con- ken into their home and had served the largest structure Windows operating software tent across the array of Inter- made off with digital cameras, yet seen in the cosmos, a clus- for machines. net-linked gadgets used in tablets and television sets. ter of galaxies from the early Worldwide PC shipments modern life. On discovering the theft the totaled 89.8 million units in the "Consumers expected all following morning, James set Universe that spans an aston- fourth quarter of 2012, finish- sorts of cool PCs with tablet to change his login passwords ishing four billion light years. ing 6.4 percent lower than the and touch capabilities," said for Facebook and other sites. The sprawling structure is same period the prior year, ac- IDC research director David It was then that McCall no- known as a large quasar cording to International Data Daoud. ticed that a man's picture had group (LQG), in which Corporation. "Instead, they mostly saw been uploaded on his wife's quasars -- the nuclei of an- It was said to be the first traditional PCs that feature a Facebook page. cient galaxies, powered by time in more than five years new OS (Windows 8) opti- JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A He suspects it must be that supermassive black holes -- that there was a year-on-year mized for touch and tablet with suspected thief appears to have of one the thieves. clump together. decline in PC shipments dur- applications and hardware that mistakenly posted his own pic- "He probably did not re- The discovery in the deep ing the holiday season. are not yet able to fully utilize ture on his victim's Facebook alise he was doing it," McCall Microsoft released the new these capabilities." Universe was made by a team page using a stolen tablet com- told the Star daily. Windows 8 operating system PC shipments in the US puter, South African media re- "Usually you never log off led by Roger Clowes at the worldwide on October 26 as a market dropped 4.5 percent in ported Friday. from a tablet, so it could have Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at way to help the dominant PC the quarter and ended with a James and Barbara McCall happened quite quickly." Britain's University of Central software maker get a bigger seven percent decline for the Lancashire. share of the market for mobile year, according to IDC. It would take a spaceship Apple sees China travelling at the speed of light four thousand million years to becoming biggest get from one end of the clus- ter to the other. market: report To give a sense of scale, our galaxy (the Milky Way) is separated from its nearest SHANGHAI (AFP) - Apple Coming out with a more af- neighbour, the Andromeda Chief Executive Tim Cook, on fordable iPhone in China and galaxy, by two and a half mil- his second visit to China in a other markets could help Apple lion light years. year, said he expects the coun- ward off competition from bar- try to surpass the United States gain-priced smartphones pow- "While it is difficult to as the technology giant's largest ered by Google-backed fathom the scale of this LQG, market, state media reported. Android software. we can say quite definitely it Cook said Apple would A separate report carried by is the largest structure ever launch new products in China, the news portal of Internet seen in the entire Universe," but declined to comment on re- giant Sina quoted Cook as say- BEIJING (AFP) - A landslide killed at least 42 people in- Clowes said in a press state- ports the company is planning ing Apple planned to have cluding seven from a single family when it smashed into ment issued by Britain's a cheaper iPhone for emerging more than 25 retail stores in a remote village in southwestern China on Friday, state Royal Astronomical Society markets like China, the official China. media said. Photos posted on Yunnan Web, run by the (RAS). Xinhua News agency reported. Apple did not immediately Yunnan provincial government showed rescuers in or- "This is hugely exciting, Apple said it sold over two mil- respond to a request for com- ange uniforms digging in wide swathes of clumpy mud not least because it runs lion iPhone 5 handsets in China ment on Cook's visit. against a backdrop of snow-covered, terraced hills. More within three days of its launch On Cook's previous visit to counter to our current under- than 1,000 rescuers were sent to the site of the landslide, on December 14 last year. China last March, the man which was estimated to be 300 metres long, 80 metres standing of the scale of the Products of the California- tipped to be China's next pre- wide and 30 metres deep, according to authorities. Snow Universe." based company, including the mier, Li Keqiang, told him that was visible in images of the rescue, in an area that has The paper appears in a RAS iPhone and iPad, are wildly foreign firms should protect experienced unusually low temperatures in recent journal, Monthly Notices of popular in China where they workers as Apple faced criti- weeks, with China suffering what authorities have called the Royal Astronomical Soci- are coveted by wealthy con- cism over factory conditions in its coldest winter in 28 years. ety. sumers. China. 10 Saturday, January 12, 2013 JAN 12 - JAN 19 O’stad : ‘ ODUBER. ’ - S.N. ‘ SAN NUCOLAAS’ FREE Coverage on our website: www.themorningnewsaruba.com

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Saturday, January 12, 2013 Parliament gives the green light expansion and renovation of Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital Aruban florins ($1,714,285) Afghan President Karzai nee ded to complete the project is being underwritten by Stich- promises will step down ting Onroerend Goed (SOGA- Foundation Real Estate) which has performed such a service in 2014 in the past. This is in keeping with the current administra- tion’s policy of pursuing pub- lic/private partnerships for the improvement and advance- ment of Aruba’s infrastructure. The government will be “ren - ting” the facility from SOGA over the next 29 years. Work on the hospital will commence Minister of Public Health as soon as possible. Minister of Finance, Tele - and Sport Dr. Richard Minister Dr. Visser ex- communications, Utilties Visser plained the facility will have and Energy, Mike de Meza Two days of turbulent parlia- expanded capacity and ser - nurses’ stations. Thus, emer- mentary sessions took place in vices. The 320 beds will be gency services and equipment the early part of this week, re- nearly doubled. There will be will be much more easily ac- sulting in the final approval of a number of new outbuildings cessed. Waiting rooms will be a financing plan to allow ex- and patient floors will be reor- enlarged. tensive expansion and renova- ganized to centralize the Continued on page 3 tion of the Dr. Horacio E. WASHINGTON (AFP) Af- happily a retired president," Oduber Hospital, Aruba prime gha nistan's President Hamid he vowed, in response to a medical care facility. Karzaisaid yesterday that he question about the 2014 vote Minister of Finance, Tele- would stand down at the end at a joint White House press communications, Utilities and of his second term in 2014 conference with Obama. Energy, Mike de Meza, joined and allow a successor to be Obama and Karzai met for Minister of Public Health and freely elected. two hours before sitting down Sport, Dr. Richard Visser in "The greatest of my together for lunch and holding announcing the laws have been achievements eventually, seen their joint press conference. passed and a financing agree- by the Afghan people, will be Karzai was elected in 2004 ment approved to allow the a proper, well-organized, in- and re-elected in 2009, in two plan on Thursday morning, terference-free election in votes marred by allegations of January 10. The vote in among which the Afghan people can widespread electoral fraud the 21-seat parliament was 14 elect their next president," he and held against the backdrop for the measure, 4 against and said. of an ongoing war between 3 abstentions. "And certainly I will be a NATO-backed government Minister de Meza explained retired president, and very forces and Taliban guerrillas. that the 300,000 million 2 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Chamber of Commerce to host Biden: no 'silver bullet' to fix gun violence Business Plaza 2013 WASHINGTON (AFP) - US cutives of video game and soft- auditorium. There will be se - Vice President Joe Biden said ware firms amid speculation veral speakers throughout the yesterday there was "no silver over the role violent content of day covering a diversity of bullet" available to beat the so-called "first person shooter" to pics to assist businesses of complex scourge of gun vio- games has on disturbed users all size to expand their mar- lence as his policy task force who later turn to real-life vio- kets and increase profitabil- sat down with video game pro- lence. ity. ducers. The vice president ques- Morning sessions will in- With another firearms tioned whether there had been clude “Strategic Marketing metaphor, Biden said he was a "coarsening of our culture" and Social Media” by Frits "shooting for Tuesday" to send over the years, but admitted he Israel of ID Aruba and his recommendations to Presi- did not know the answer to the “Sustai nable & Effective dent Barack Obama, who question. HRM for Entrepreneurs in a promised to use his power to Biden has been meeting all Shifting Economy,” with try to prevent new outrages the "stakeholders" with inte - Ryan Maduro of Independent after a school massacre in Con- rests in the guns issue, inclu - Organization Development necticut. ding victims of violence, law Consultants. Notary Hilde "We know that there is no enforcement organizations, KvK Director Leo Maduro, Shariska Odor and Sponsor Rodriguez-Taekema will silver bullet," Biden said, in- hunting groups and members Michael Leo van Romondt of Deloitte open the session with an ex- sisting that the question of how of the gun lobby. Director of Aruba Chamber The official opening will planation of expansion and to stop more deaths following On Thursday, the National of Commerce (Kamer van take place at 10:00 AM in the change of legal forms for a spate of mass shootings was Rifle Association said that Koophandel or KvK) Leo a difficult one. Biden cared more about Maduro invites all interested "I come to this meeting stamping out gun rights than in advan cing the quality of with no judgment." protecting school children after their business to attend the Biden sat down with exe - its representative attended a free “Busi - ness Plaza 2013: meeting with Biden. Step Forward!” which will be Gold bars found in Puerto conducted on Saturday, Janu- ary 19 at their KvK building on Irausquin Boulevard. The Rico point to Curacao heist event is being sponsored by Deloitte Financial Services SAN JUAN -- Eleven gold bars weigh a total of approxi- and other accounting compa- bars were found by US border mately 34.7 kilogrammes nies. The day will end with patrol authorities last month at (76.3 pounds) and have a total an introduction to “Europe an airport in Puerto Rico and value of around US$1.7 mil- Meets Americas” which will the precious metal is believed lion at the current gold price. take place from May 5 to 8 to have been part of the No- The gold bars were turned on Aruba, with the possibili- vember 30 heist aboard a over to the US Immigration ties it will present for local Guyanese boat in the Dutch is- and Customs Enforcement, entrepreneurs. land of Curacao. which is investigating the mat- doing business on Aruba. There had been earlier re- ter. Aruba’s Prime Minister ports that gold from the mind- Around 70 bars of gold Mike Eman will visit the boggling US$11.5M heist had were believed to have been event in the afternoon and made its way to the US but seized from the boat with a open the session on “Europe there had been no confirmed Guyanese crew and six per- Meets the Americas.” Preced- reports until a statement on sons have been detained in Cu- ing his visit will be a talk on Tuesday by the US Customs racao over the matter. The gold “Financial Decision for and Border Protection. Puerto is believed to have been smug- Smart Investment” by Ryan Rico is an unincorporated US gled from Guyana but local au- Kock of Atlas Accountancy. territory. thorities have not said whether Afternoon sessions will also The agency said that the there are pursuing any leads include “Going Green Bene- gold bars were found last here. They are awaiting docu- fits for your Company,” with month at the Rafael Hernández mentation from Curacao be- Freddy Vargas of Elmar NV International Airport in the fore releasing the details of a and “Care for Employees,” western city of Aguadilla. visit to the island by two offi- by Enrita Werelmen of E-con They had been shipped in cials of the Guyana Geology Social Consultancy Services. boxes from Curacao. and Mines Commission in the Chamber of Commerce Continued on page 5 Authorities said that the 11 wake of the heist. Saturday, January 12, 2013 3 Parliament gives green light . . . Continued from page 1 The number of single and double rooms will be greater. Labs will be enlarged and modernized. Specialists will be closer at hand, and the Emergency Room will also receive a major makeover to improve and speed treatment. There will be two elevator banks; one exclusively for staff and transporting patients to special services, the other for visitors and out patients. This will smooth the flow of traffic through the hospital. Along with new, modern equipment, the facility will receive a de corative make - over, so patients will find their hospital stay, which is usually a difficult time, far more cheerful, which encour- ages recovery. After close in- spection, it was found the main building is of sturdy construction and expansion is considered the best plan for Aruba’s hospital. Rosalie Klein Opportunity to pay motor New laws will augment social security vehicles tax on Saturdays payments, special requirements for begins today additional benefits 8:00 a.m. until 2 p.m. non- stop. Motorists can claim their number plate right after mak- ing their payments, until 2:00 p.m. Clients wishing to pay other ORANJESTAD – The Tax De- kind of taxes can also do so partment announces to all mo- during these Saturdays. torists that as of today, January Please take notice that this 12, 2013, they can pay their extra service is only at the motor vehicle taxes on Satur- main tax offices at Camacuri days. The main tax office at and not at any of the auxiliary Camacuri will be open for this government offices on the is- purpose every Saturday until land. February 16, 2013, aside from The Tax Department antici- regular office hours during the pates providing assistance to as SVB Director Gino Croes and Pension Fund Director Form to be filled for an addi- week. many clients as possible during Luis Tromp tional 50 florin monthly Opening hours are from the coming days. Gino Croes, Director of the Aruban florins monthly to be their Aruban social security, SVB, which handles a num- paid to individuals who de- are not eligible for the addi- ber of social services award- pend on their Aruban social tional monthly stipend. ing payments to citizens, and security, with no other form Those who are eligible Luis Tromp, Head of the De- of income. must fill in the form, which is partment of Social Security Mr. Croes explained that presented in both Dutch and (AOV), welcomed island over the next month, all those Papiamento, and file it by media to their office on the inscribed with the SVB and March 31, to obtain the addi- Vondellaan to explain the receiving Social Security tional benefits. Each appli- new increase in social secu- benefits will receive notifica- cant will be investigated, and rity payments retroactively tion via post and a form to fill misinforming the SVB re- effective January of this year. in to apply for the additional garding additional income It was announced on Tues- 50 Aruban florins. Individu- will be penalized with a day, January 8 that new laws als who also receive social 1,500 Aruban florins fine. have been passed which will security from Holland, or are Applications can be filed at increase the social security included in complementary the SVB office on the Von- benefit paid monthly by 50 pension plans from the gov- dellaan in Oranjestad, or in Aruban florins ($28), across ernment, insurance compa- their branch office in San the board. However, a new nies, the tourism pension Nicolas. regulation was passed that plan, or have any sort of sup- will allow an additional 50 plemental income outside of Continued on page 5 4 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Susan Friedman and Arthur Pearsall “Mary Joan Foundation Support Group” searching honored at the Divi Phoenix Resort for people with interest in voluntarism Mary Joan “Foundation” dation would like to continue would like to say thank you to spreading awareness on breast the Aruban community, for cancer and is in search of vo- Recently, Mr. Arthur Pear - token of appreciation to that they have been coming to their support over the past five lunteers. sall and Mrs. Susan Fried- guests who visit Aruba for Aruba for 17 straight years, years. During 2012, the foun- A volunteer meeting has man from Pleasantville, NY, more than 10 consecutive and they are looking forward dation has been very active and been programmed on January were honored as Distin- years. to be honored as an Ambassa- successful. The organization 15th, and the location will be guished Vi sitors, after re- Mr. Ricardo Croes, repre- dor of Goodwill in 2016. held special support group the meeting room at Fantastic turning to Aruba for their senting Aruba Tourism Picture shows Mr. Croes mee tings for their clients, Gardens. Anyone who wishes 17th conse cutive visit. The Autho rity, presented them together with Susan and spread the word on awareness, to join the foundation as a vo - symbolic honorary title is with a certificate at the Divi Arthur and GM Mr. Griffith provided social and psycho- lunteer is welcome from 20:00 presented in the name of the Phoenix Resort and Aivil from the Divi logical support, lectures and to 21:00, where information Minister of Tourism as a Mr. Arthur commented Phoenix Resort. organized several fundraising will be given on the type of activities during the year. volunteers that are needed and The foundation would have where you could sign up. never accomplished all their For more information goals if it was not for the active please call the Mary Joan support of volunteers, who of- Foundation office (Sabana fered their time and experience Blanco #8) at 588–9999. Of- to the cause. After another suc- fice hours are from 7:30 – cessful year Mary Joan Foun- 12:30 and from 13:30 – 16:30. Saturday, January 12, 2013 5 Chamber of Commerce to host Business Plaza 2013 Continued from page 2 Simultaneously taking place with the morning lectures are a series of workshops on bookkeeping and taxes as well as business planning, where attendees can get more personalized advice. Aruba’s Free Zone, The Department of Economic Affairs & In- dustry, Customs Department and the Tax Office, SIAD, will have a market place in the Multimedia Library throughout the day to answer questions and discuss partic- ular issues. The entire day of business advice, information and net- working will be from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM, and atten- dance is free. Snacks and re- freshments will be included. Pre-registration, as places are limited, is essential. Inter- ested parties can register and obtain more information on- line by visiting the KvK web- site: www.arubachamber.com or e-mailbusinessinfo@ arubachamber.com. To con- tact the KvK directly, call 582-1866 extension 30 or 27. Rosalie Klein New laws will augment social security payments,... Continued from page 3 The additional 50 florins pay- ment will begin in the month of May and be retroactive for the four months prior, so pay- ments of the 200 florins due from January 1 will take place in the May payment. Court drama over US cinema massacre trial Social Security payments are not made at the end of the CENTENNIAL (AFP) - The Thursday that Holmes will mediate removal from the nesses who gave chilling ac- month, but on the 3rd of the father of a victim of the Co - face trial over the late night room by guards. counts of the slaughter, and month they are due. Social lorado cinema massacre yelled massacre in Aurora, outside Holmes is accused over the played 911 emergency calls in Security recipients are ad- "rot in hell!" at the alleged Denver, last July. July 20 shooting at a midnight which the chaos and loud vised to inquire at one of the gunman yesterday, when a But the suspect's defense screening of the Batman booms of gunshots could be SVB offices if they have not judge delayed officially char - lawyers objected to the ar- movie, "The Dark Knight clearly heard. received their notification ging him a day after ruling he raignment -- the official laying Rises." The massacre briefly Holmes's lawyers had been and forms by around the 15th stand trial. of charges, when Holmes will revived America's perennial expected to present witnesses of February. Four or five people walked enter a plea -- yesterday, when debate about gun control. to bolster a case that he may be For more information, in- out of court after judge it was meant to take place, and Witnesses said Holmes mentally unfit to stand trial. quire at the SVB offices dur- William Sylvester postponed the judge postponed the hea - threw smoke bomb-type de- But in the end they an- ing working hours, telephone for two months a hearing to ar- ring until March 12. vices before opening fire ran- nounced they would not, and num ber 527-2700 or visit raign James Holmes, the 25- After the announcement domly with weapons including the judge ruled Thursday, in an their website:http://www.svb year-old who is accused of several people left the court an AR-15 military-style rifle, a order posted online, that pros- aruba. org/pensioen/seguro- shooting 12 moviegoers dead and shortly after Steve Hernan- 12-gauge shotgun and a .40- ecutors had established there di-biehes/ and injuring at least 58 others. dez, father of victim Rebecca caliber pistol. was "probable cause" to be- Following preliminary hea - Wingo, shouted "Rot in hell, Over three days earlier this lieve the defendant committed Rosalie klein rings this week it was ordered Holmes!" prompting his im- week, prosecutors called wit- the crimes. 6 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Obama: US moves to support role in Venezuelan VP visits ailing Afghanistan 'this spring' Chavez in Cuba again CARACAS (AFP) - Vice Pre - Leopoldo Lopez, an oppo- WASHINGTON (AFP) - US would come a little quicker rity and protection." sident Nicolas Maduro yester- sition leader, said Chavez's President Barack Obama and than planned. The presence of US troops day visited ailing Venezuelan failure to turn up to his own his Afghan counterpart Hamid "Because of the progress in a training and support role President Hugo Chavez in ceremony had created "an un- Karzai said yesterday that that has been made in terms of after 2014 would depend on the Cuba, a day after the leftist defined situation in which we American forces would hand Afghan security forces, their United States negotiating a se- leader's inauguration in Cara- can be without a president, and the lead in the fight against the capacity to take the lead, we curity agreement with Afgha - cas was replaced by a huge without clear signs that the Taliban to Afghan forces in the are able to meet those goals nistan that would give them rally. president is governing." next few months. and accelerate them some- protection from Afghan law. Maduro, 50, has delivered The Supreme Court has "Starting this spring, our what," Obama said. "And if we have a follow- somber updates about the ab- ruled the cancer-stricken troops will have a different Karzai agreed, saying: "I'm on force of any sort, past 2014, sent leader's delicate condition Chavez can postpone his mission -- training, advising, very happy to hear from the it has got to be at the invitation which has plunged Venezuela swearing-in indefinitely, and assisting Afghan forces. It will president as we also discussed of the Afghan government and into uncertainty in the past the government has not given be a historic moment and an- earlier that in spring this year, they have to feel comfortable month, with the opposition an indication of when the other step toward full Afghan the Afghan forces will be fully with it," Obama told the White calling for a medical board to leader might return. sovereignty," Obama told a responsible for providing secu- House news conference. assess Chavez's condition. It was the last legal hurdle joint news conference. rity and protection to the "I will say and I've said to That demand was rejected to a government plan for re- Obama said US forces Afghan people. President Karzai that we have by the Supreme Court, and in solving the vacuum created by would "still be in harm's way" "And that the international arrangements like this with his latest update Maduro -- Chavez's illness that met fierce in Afghanistan after the hand - forces, the American forces, countries all around the world. who previously visited Chavez resistance from the opposition, over, at least until 2014, but will be no longer present in the And nowhere do we have any -- said that on the the upcom- which had argued it was un- would take a backseat to villages, that it will be the task kind of security agreement ing trip he would relay details constitutional. Afghan forces in offensive op- of the Afghan forces to provide with a country without immu- of support received from re- In a significant endorse- erations and the drawdown for the Afghan people in secu- nity for our troops." gional leaders. ment, the head of the Organi- West African bloc authorises troop In power for 14 years and zation of American States said re-elected in October, Chavez in Washington yesterday that was supposed to be sworn in to the hemispheric body "fully re- deployment in Mali a new six year term on Thurs- spects" the decision to indefi- day, but the government inde - nitely postpone Chavez's LAGOS (AFP) - The chairman tion Economic Community of The situation has evolved finitely postponed the event swearing in. of west African bloc ECOWAS West African States expressed rapidly in recent days. after the president suffered a "The issue has been re- yesterday authorised the im- its "deep concern following the The Islamists captured severe lung infection. solved by the three branches mediate deployment of troops deterioration of the situation in Kona earlier this week and The opposition meanwhile of government of Venezuela: to Mali, a statement said amid Mali". moved about 1,200 fighters to called for counter-demonstra- it was presented by the exec- an offensive against Islamists It added that it was espe- within 20 kilometres (12 tions on January 23, the day in utive, considered by the legis- who control the country's cially concerned "over the cur- miles) of Mopti, a strategically 1958 that began Venezuela's lature and decided by the desert north. rent attempt by terrorist occu - important town on the frontier modern democratic era with judiciary," OAS secretary The statement came after pation forces to take the city of between rebel-held and gov- the ouster of its last military general Jose Miguel Insulza Mali's army said troops from Kona and advance toward the ernment-held territories. dictatorship. said. Nigeria, Senegal and France south on positions held by the There have been concerns were deployed in support of Malian armed forces." in west Africa over the risks government forces in their of- The statement did not give posed by the Islamists and fensive against Islamists in the further details on troop deploy- criminal gangs operating in country's centre. ments. An army spokesman in northern Mali. Those concerns Mali yesterday declared a Nigeria, which has the largest include speculation over state of emergency and un- military in the bloc, said he whether northern Mali groups leashed the offensive against had no information on the sit- and Islamist extremist group the Islamists amid growing uation. Boko Haram in Nigeria have fears of the country becoming Nigeria, where ECOWAS begun to cooperate more an Afghanistan-style haven for headquarters is located, had closely. extremists within easy reach of earlier pledged 600 troops for US General Carter Ham, western Europe. the force. head of US Africa Command, The UN Security Council France has led calls for an has said he was concerned has given its blessing for a international response but had about indications of growing 3,000-strong African force to be until yesterday insisted that its links between African extrem- sent to Mali but it was not ex- involvement would be limited ist groups that could pose a pected to be ready to deploy be- to providing logistical support threat across the continent as fore September at the earliest. for the force being prepared by well as to Europe and the In its statement, the 15-na- ECOWAS. United States. Saturday, January 12, 2013 7 International News Saudi king names women to Shura Council for first Years after quake, Haitian time homeless feel abandoned RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi said he would also name King Abdullah has appointed them to the Shura Council up trying to run classes in a tent women for the first time to a because "we refuse marginal- in the Marassa camp, just out- top advisory body, with de- ising women's role in the side the capital, where 5,000 crees published on Friday Saudi society in all fields." people cling to life beside a marking a breakthrough in a Saudi Arabia has seen dangerous river. kingdom that imposes strin- many changes since Abdullah "We have been abandoned gent restrictions on females. became king in 2005. by the authorities. January 12 The historic decisions Norah al-Fayez became will be the anniversary of three mean that 30 women will the first woman ever named years of suffering, misery and now be allowed to sit on the to a ministerial post in 2009 contempt," he spat. previously all-male 150-seat when she was given named Global aid agency Oxfam, Shura Council, although fe- deputy education minister for one of several foreign develop- males in Saudi Arabia are women's education. PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - complain that rebuilding and ment bodies engaged in the re- banned from driving and de- More recently, Saudi Three years after Haiti was re-development has been too construction effort, say nied the right to travel with- women broke ground when devastated by a massive earth- slow. progress has been made, but it out male consent. two of them took part in the quake, hundreds of thousands Around 358,000 people are is often seen as piecemeal and The decrees were wel- London Olympics. of homeless people are still at still living rough in scores of uncoordinated, lacking in cen- comed by female Saudi nov- But in the oil-rich king- risk from crime, disease and the camps scattered around the tral government direction. elist Badriya al-Bishr as a dom, women rights are stifled elements in crowded makeshift capital Port-au-Prince and sur- And the dangers have been "promise kept" by the king, daily and lag far behind inter- camps. rounding districts, exposed to a underlined by a series of fol- who has been treading care- national standards. The 2010 disaster triggered crime wave, a cholera outbreak low-up tragedies, such as the fully over the years to em- Since November, each a global outpouring of sympa- and -- from time to time -- hur- cholera outbreak apparently power women in his push for time a Saudi woman travels thetic rhetoric and pledges of ricanes. triggered by sewage from a UN reforms. outside the kingdom she is aid for the already impover- "We are without support," military base and that claimed The 30 chosen women in- being monitored by an elec- ished Caribbean nation, but res- complained Wisly Decimus, a 8,000 lives and sickened more clude university graduates, tronic system that sends text idents and aid agencies former teacher who has given than 635,000 people. human rights activists and messages to the phones of her Russia to allow 'some orphans' to be two princesses. male guardian, even if they Also among them is Thu- are traveling together. raya Obaid, a veteran UN ad- The electronic tracking adopted in US ministrator who served was swiftly condemned on notably as executive director social network Twitter and by MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian dent Vladimir Putin's Russia adopted the law in of the UN Development Pro- women rights activists, while children whose adoptions have spokesman Dmitry Peskov reprisal for new US legislation gramme and undersecretary Bishr criticised "the state of already been approved by told AFP. that targets Russian officials general of the world body. slavery under which women courts will go to the United He declined further details, who have allegedly committed But the decrees stipulated are held" in the ultra-conser- States despite a blanket ban on but Russian officials say 52 rights abuses. strict guidelines for allowing vative kingdom. all American adoptions, a children were in the process of Kremlin children's rights women into the once all-male In an interview with AFP Kremlin spokesman said on being adopted by US parents enclave, saying men and this week, Prince Talal bin envoy Pavel Astakhov said, Friday. when the controversial ban on women will be segregated in- Abdul Aziz, a half brother of citing a preliminary figure, "Those who have received a US adoptions came into force side the council. King Abdullah, said the that 52 children were at vari- court decision will go," Presi- January 1. Women will be seated in a Shura Council must be em- ous stages of being adopted by special area and enter the powerd to legislate and criti- Americans and that he had re- council through a separate cised clerics who reject calls quested firm data from the ed- door so as not to mix with ucation ministry. for women to be allowed to their male colleagues. "Currently no-one can tell drive. Abdullah had been care- for sure -- these are children fully treading towards "How can it make sense to from Kamchatka to Kalin- change, introducing munici- allow a driver (a male ingrad," he told AFP, referring pal elections for the first time stranger) to stay in the house to Russia's western and eastern in 2005. day and night while prohibit- borders. In 2011 he granted women ing mixing between sexes "This is all very individual. the right to vote and run as and women from driving? Every child is in a different sit- candidates in the next local "Do we not have confi- uation, at a different stage. election, set for 2015, and dence in our women?" 8 Saturday, January 12, 2013 Health & Living Sao Paulo to force treatment on crack Fundacion Sinta Ros visited addicts by Mary Joan Foundation tion travelled to Curacao last SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazil's residue of cocaine-making, November for a five day richest city Sao Paulo will start with a million users, says a re- visit. The group received a rounding up the most down- cent study by the Federal Uni- special invitation from The and-out crack addicts from its versity of Sao Paulo. Fundacion Sinta Ros of Cu- streets and make them get A downtown Sao Paulo racao, which is also offering treatment whether they like it crack slum was cleaned out in support to those with breast or not, an official says. a wave of police raids a year cancer. Rio de Janeiro is already ago. But dealers and users are Preparations for the trip doing this with minors, but the now moving in back in by the and the fundraising was led new program in Sao Paulo, hundreds. by Rosa van der Biezen and a South America's largest city, De Sousa acknowledged the few other women who also will target adults, said the jus- delicate nature of forcing treat- participated in the trip. tice secretary of Sao Paulo ment on people. She insisted Thanks to several business state, Eloisa de Sousa, in an in- however the program is for ad- owners and friends who do- terview with AFP. dicts so far gone they can no nated towards coffie morn- For now 700 spots in the longer look after themselves. ings. mandatory rehab program Brazil's congress plans to President of the Fundacion have been created. It will get Sinta Ros, Mrs. Angeline de started later this month. vote in February on a bill that Ron-Tromp opened her home Economic powerhouse toughens penalties for drug to receive the Aruba delega- Brazil is now considered the trafficking and calls for forced tion of the Mary Joan Foun- world's top consumer of crack, treatment for crack addicts all dation. The group a cheap and highly addictive over the country. participated in Curacao's an- Massive US flu outbreak nual walkaton and were proud to lead the procession claims at least 18 lives carrying the Mary Joan Foun- dation banner ahead of the thousands of participants. WASHINGTON (AFP) - The firmed cases of the flu, almost Joana Dirksz won a prize for United States was in the grip 10 times the number from this her outfit creativity during Thursday of a deadly influenza time last year. the walkaton. outbreak that has hit harder and Flu strikes every year, bring- The Aruba delegation earlier than in previous years, ing chills, fever, coughing and shared in an interchane of and has claimed the lives of at achy misery to millions. ideas during an evening gath- least 18 children. Health officials said the flu ering, and were invited by the "The type of flu is one that vaccine is a good match for the Curacao group to participate generally is more serious. It's strain of influenza circulating in future activities of the the H3N2 variety, which is his- around , and confers about 60 Sinta Ros in Curacao. torically more serious than we percent to 65 percent protec- Nutrition is very important see with other types of virus, tion against the illness. to the MJF clients. And, at the Anthony Fauci, director of the In addition to being inocu- Umbuto Wellness Center National Institute of Allergy lated against flu, health offi- they enjoyed a delicious veg- and Infectious Diseases." told cials recommend such basic etarian dish, thanks to AFP. prophylactic procedures as fre- Cheraldine Osepa. The group The epidemic, which broke quent hand washing, and visited several touristic areas out in early December, has coughing or sneezing into one's such as Barber, Dolfine Habi- caused some 2,200 hospitaliza- sleeve to keep the illness at tat, Punda and Otrobanda and tions across the United States, bay. several other places. federal health officials said. Some U.S. health facilities Special thanks to Angeline Particularly hard hit has even are making flu shots a de Ron, President of the Fun- been the northeastern city of condition of employment, al- dacion Sinta Ros and her Boston, where officials have though one critical-care nurse spouse, as well as all the declared a public health emer- made headlines recently for re- -- Clients of Mary Joan Foun- exchange of information. ladies of the foundation for gency. fusing the injection -- insisting dation visited Fundacion A group of clients of their warm welcome and the City officials said there have she would rather be fired than Sinta Ros in Curacao for an Aruba's Mary Joan Founda- enjoyable stay in Curacao. so far been about 700 con- take the vaccine. Saturday, January 12, 2013 9 Sci-Tech Astronomers Personal computer sales slip during Thief posts own picture spot biggest holiday season on victim's Facebook structure in page Universe SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - devices such as tablets. Personal computer sales Windows 8 was designed slipped at the end of last year, with touch-screen capabilities returned from a weekend PARIS (AFP) - Astronomers despite the holiday shopping in mind and to make it easier break to find thieves had bro- on Friday said they had ob- season and the release of new to synchronize computer con- ken into their home and had served the largest structure Windows operating software tent across the array of Inter- made off with digital cameras, yet seen in the cosmos, a clus- for machines. net-linked gadgets used in tablets and television sets. ter of galaxies from the early Worldwide PC shipments modern life. On discovering the theft the totaled 89.8 million units in the "Consumers expected all following morning, James set Universe that spans an aston- fourth quarter of 2012, finish- sorts of cool PCs with tablet to change his login passwords ishing four billion light years. ing 6.4 percent lower than the and touch capabilities," said for Facebook and other sites. The sprawling structure is same period the prior year, ac- IDC research director David It was then that McCall no- known as a large quasar cording to International Data Daoud. ticed that a man's picture had group (LQG), in which Corporation. "Instead, they mostly saw been uploaded on his wife's quasars -- the nuclei of an- It was said to be the first traditional PCs that feature a Facebook page. cient galaxies, powered by time in more than five years new OS (Windows 8) opti- JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A He suspects it must be that supermassive black holes -- that there was a year-on-year mized for touch and tablet with suspected thief appears to have of one the thieves. clump together. decline in PC shipments dur- applications and hardware that mistakenly posted his own pic- "He probably did not re- The discovery in the deep ing the holiday season. are not yet able to fully utilize ture on his victim's Facebook alise he was doing it," McCall Microsoft released the new these capabilities." Universe was made by a team page using a stolen tablet com- told the Star daily. Windows 8 operating system PC shipments in the US puter, South African media re- "Usually you never log off led by Roger Clowes at the worldwide on October 26 as a market dropped 4.5 percent in ported Friday. from a tablet, so it could have Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at way to help the dominant PC the quarter and ended with a James and Barbara McCall happened quite quickly." Britain's University of Central software maker get a bigger seven percent decline for the Lancashire. share of the market for mobile year, according to IDC. It would take a spaceship Apple sees China travelling at the speed of light four thousand million years to becoming biggest get from one end of the clus- ter to the other. market: report To give a sense of scale, our galaxy (the Milky Way) is separated from its nearest SHANGHAI (AFP) - Apple Coming out with a more af- neighbour, the Andromeda Chief Executive Tim Cook, on fordable iPhone in China and galaxy, by two and a half mil- his second visit to China in a other markets could help Apple lion light years. year, said he expects the coun- ward off competition from bar- try to surpass the United States gain-priced smartphones pow- "While it is difficult to as the technology giant's largest ered by Google-backed fathom the scale of this LQG, market, state media reported. Android software. we can say quite definitely it Cook said Apple would A separate report carried by is the largest structure ever launch new products in China, the news portal of Internet seen in the entire Universe," but declined to comment on re- giant Sina quoted Cook as say- BEIJING (AFP) - A landslide killed at least 42 people in- Clowes said in a press state- ports the company is planning ing Apple planned to have cluding seven from a single family when it smashed into ment issued by Britain's a cheaper iPhone for emerging more than 25 retail stores in a remote village in southwestern China on Friday, state Royal Astronomical Society markets like China, the official China. media said. Photos posted on Yunnan Web, run by the (RAS). Xinhua News agency reported. Apple did not immediately Yunnan provincial government showed rescuers in or- "This is hugely exciting, Apple said it sold over two mil- respond to a request for com- ange uniforms digging in wide swathes of clumpy mud not least because it runs lion iPhone 5 handsets in China ment on Cook's visit. against a backdrop of snow-covered, terraced hills. More within three days of its launch On Cook's previous visit to counter to our current under- than 1,000 rescuers were sent to the site of the landslide, on December 14 last year. China last March, the man which was estimated to be 300 metres long, 80 metres standing of the scale of the Products of the California- tipped to be China's next pre- wide and 30 metres deep, according to authorities. Snow Universe." based company, including the mier, Li Keqiang, told him that was visible in images of the rescue, in an area that has The paper appears in a RAS iPhone and iPad, are wildly foreign firms should protect experienced unusually low temperatures in recent journal, Monthly Notices of popular in China where they workers as Apple faced criti- weeks, with China suffering what authorities have called the Royal Astronomical Soci- are coveted by wealthy con- cism over factory conditions in its coldest winter in 28 years. ety. sumers. China. 10 Saturday, January 12, 2013 JAN 12 - JAN 19 O’stad : ‘ ODUBER. ’ - S.N. ‘ SAN NUCOLAAS’ FREE Coverage on our website: www.themorningnewsaruba.com

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