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with connections to LadyThatcher will be invited," itsaid.

Thatcher's coffin will restin the Houses of Parliamentthe night before the funeraland will be taken through thestreets on a gun carriage tothe cathedral with full mili-tary honours.Several Conser-vative lawmakers have calledfor her to receive a full statefuneral but her spokesmanLord Tim Bell said Thatcherhad specifically said such anobservance was "not appro-priate".

A private ambulance ac-companied by police motor-cycle outriders removedThatcher's body early Tues-day from the luxury Ritzhotel in central Londonwhere she spent the last daysof her life, an AFP photogra-pher said.

Lawmakers have been re-called to parliament today todebate Thatcher's legacy andwill vote on a motion payingtribute to her.

ORANJESTAD -- Report-edly, Aruba is completelyready to receive the 65 inter-national participants for thisyear's Aruba Annual TourismConference (ATCA) sched-uled to take place from April8th to the 10th. The partici-pants are tour operators, local

and international airline rep-resentatives, local hotel rep-resentatives and from NorthAmerica, as well as 30 localparticipants and the ATAteam.

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"She was an inspiration tomany people in other coun-tries, not just this country,particularly people aspiringto their own freedom anddemocracy at a time theydidn't have it, such as behindthe Iron Curtain," Haguesaid.

Condolence books wereset up at several British em-bassies around the world.

Pope Francis was amongthe latest to pay tribute toThatcher, hailing her "pro-motion of freedom". Similartributes have come from USPresident Barack Obamaand dozens of current andformer world leaders includ-ing her one-time Soviet ad-versary Gorbachev.

Current British PrimeMinister David Cameron'soffice said the governmenthad agreed during a meetingwith Thatcher's family andBuckingham Palace that herfuneral would take placenext Wednesday, followedby a private cremation.

"A wide and diverserange of people and groups

LONDON (AFP) -Britain's Queen Eliz-abeth II will leadmourners at nextweek's funeral ofMargaret Thatcher,the first time themonarch will haveattended the cere-mony of one of herformer prime minis-ters since WinstonChurchill died in1965.

Tributes fromworld leaders whohailed the role of the"Iron Lady" in bring-ing down commu-nism kept flooding inas the British govern-ment announced thatthe funeral would beon Wednesday nextweek in London's StPaul's Cathedral.

S p e c u l a t i o nmounted yesterdaythat former Sovietleader Mikhail Gor-bachev and ex-US first ladyNancy Reagan would be in-vited to the ceremonial fu-neral, one step down from thestate funeral given toChurchill, but the same hon-our afforded to the QueenMother and to PrincessDiana.

But "Maggie" remained aspolarising in death as she didin life, with violence eruptingat street parties celebratingthe demise of a figure whocritics say destroyed millionsof lives with her free-marketeconomic policies.

Thatcher, Britain's first fe-male prime minister andlongest serving premier ofthe 20th century, died onMonday aged 87 after suffer-ing a stroke. She had suffereddementia for more than adecade.

Foreign Secretary WilliamHague, a fellow Conserva-tive, told a briefing yesterdayahead of a meeting with G8counterparts that Britain wasgrateful for the condolencesfrom around the world.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Thatcher funeral set for next week

in divided Britain

Written messages from members ofthe public are pictured in a book ofcondolence at Grantham Museum incentral England. (AFP)

Chemnitz: AFP photo showsa pug standing behind cro-cusses on a field in Chem-nitz, eastern Germany, onApril 9, 2013. After a longand cold winter, first flowersblossom after temperaturesraised to 4 degrees.

PALM BEACH, ARUBAHyatt Corporation announcedthat they has been named a re-cipient of the 2013 GallupGreat Workplace Award. Thisis the second year Hyatt has re-ceived the award, which isbased on the most rigorousworkplace research ever con-ducted. The Award recognizesthe best-performing work-forces in the world, and Hyatthas been chosen for their abil-ity to create a productive andengaged workplace culture.

In a given year, Gallup part-ners globally with approxi-mately 350 companies toactively measure their work-place engagement. Thisequates to more than 7.8 mil-lion survey respondents andmore than 1,024,000 work-groups across 179 countriesannually. Of these participat-ing companies, approximately10% earn the Gallup GreatWorkplace Award.

“For us to once again earnthis recognition is a testamentto each of our associates whomakes a difference in the livesof our guests and colleagueseach and every day.

Every time we walkthrough the doors of our hotelsor offices to begin our days,and every time we engage withone another, building and sus-taining a positive experience at

Manager of Hyatt Aruba. For more information about

Hyatt Regency Aruba call 1-800-55-HYATT or visitwww.aruba.hyatt.com.

work for our colleaguesaround the world is our prior-ity. As a reminder of the energyand passion our associatesbring each and every day”,said Fred Hoffmann, General

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Hyatt has received the 2013 Gallup

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Participants to this year'sATCA conference will alsohave the opportunity to visitimportant parts of the islandin an exciting jeep tour...the"One happy Jeep Tour." Asthey travel by De Palm Toursjeeps, there will be a "story-teller" at each stop who willshare information about eachattraction. Participants willbe later quizzed about theirvisit and could win prizes.Each year the planning com-mittee tries to make the pro-gram as exciting andmemorable as possible for allparticipants.

Closing night will takeplace at the Radisson ArubaResort & Casino, where thevisitors will enjoy a delight-ful evening before returningto their destinations. TheNorth American market is thelargest market for our island,which means that ATCA isdefinitely a very importantencounter for our tourism in-dustry. Aruba Tourism Au-thority and all the people ofAruba wish all participantsmuch success and an enjoy-able stay on "dushi" Aruba!

The primary objective ofATCA is to offer the possibil-ity to re-enforce informationabout Aruba to the executivesand to continue improvingour relationship with ourpartners with a focus on op-portunities that would enrichour tourism market.

The official opening willtook place at Plasa Turismowhere Minister of Tourism,Otmar Oduber together withATA CEO, Ronella TjinAsjoe-Croes welcomed allparti cipants to this year's2013 ATCA conference. Theevening was dedicated to acultural event specially pre-pared for our guests. They allenjoyed the evening on therecently opened Linear Park.

On Tuesday and Wednes-day the "Marketplace" will beheld at the Hyatt RegencyAruba Resort and the Renais-sance Convention Center.Here is where important en-counters will take place be-tween local and internationalpartners, affording businessopportunities and the ampli-fication of possibilities forthe next tourism season.

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Recently at the Divi Phoenix, Aruba vacationers were pre-sented with honorary titles created by the Ministry ofTourism as a token of apprecation to all those who choseAruba as their favorite vacation destination. Louis & SandraDeNome from Pennsylvania and John & Xiomara Borekfrom Illinois were honored as Distinguished Visitors of Aruba.They have been coming here for more than 10 consecutiveyears. Bonnie Jean Butler from Massachusetts was honoredas Goodwill Ambassador of Aruba for her more than 20 con-secutive visit. Aruba Tourism Authority representativeMarouska Heyliger presented the honorees their certificatesat the Divi Phoenix, their home away from home.

Someone who currentlyearns a monthly salary ofAfls.3.273, 40 or a salary ofAfls.39.380, 80 per year willbe protected under the laws ofthe Labor Ordinance.

According to the govern-ment, anyone earning morethan the afore mentionedamounts will not be coveredby the Labor Ordinance. Thesepersons will have to arrangefor conditions inclusive in theirwork contract or in a collectiveworking agreement.

The government wants toensure that every employee inthe labor force be given theproper job security and a stablework environment so that theycan work in all tranquility andtruly feel protected as a resultof these changes in our LaborLaws.

new Ordinance provides for adouble increase of the mini-mum wage (Afls.1.636, 70).Initially the factor 2 will be in-creased annually with 0.1 dur-ing a 5 year period up to amaximum of 2.5 times the min-imum wage (article 3 AV 2013).

ORANJESTAD -- The govern-ment considers it very impor-tant for the community to befully aware of the 5 changes inour labor laws approved inParliament. It is important foreveryone to be aware of thebenefits that these changeshave wrought, says Minister ofLabor, Otmar Oduber.

The salary limit has notbeen revised for the past 20years here. The change in thelaw, which took effect on April1st 2013, is extremely positiveand covers 80% of our laborforce with protection and ben-efits compared to the 60% ofthose who were covered underthe old Labor Ordinance.

The salary limit under theold Labor Ordinance wasAfls.32.214, - per year, which isAfls.2.685, 50 per month. The

New Labor Law provides increased

protection for 80% of all laborers

gram pertaining to construc-tion companies and workerswill be on Thursday, May 23from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in thesame venue.

DAO will return to the EPIauditorium on Thursday, May30, with a presentation and Q& A session for the generalpublic from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.The information sessions willbe conducted in Papiamento.

Particular queries regardingthese new laws can be submit-ted in writing to the DAO at e-mail address: [email protected]. Inquiries canalso be made at their office be-hind the DA Drugstore, or bycalling their offices and askingfor extension 297 or 284.

particular area of employmentand how it will be affect by thenew laws.

On Tuesday, April 16, theinformative session will beconducted in the auditorium ofthe EPI School and will pertainto the HORECA, HOtel/REstaurant/Cafe workers,from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.

Changes in the law regard-ing those working in small andlarge commercial ventures willbe explained on Tuesday, April23 in the ATIA conferenceroom from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.Companies offering other mis-cellaneous services have andinformation session at theATIA on Tuesday, May 21 be-ginning at 2:00 PM. The pro-

ORANJESTAD -- Aruba's Par-liament just passed new laborlaws that will effect every sec-tor of Aruban business. Thelegal department of the LaborOffice announced they will beconducting informative semi-nars over the next two months,to acquaint employers andworkers with how thesechanges and new laws will af-fect them.

Aside from the two newlaws going into effect, includ-ing one regarding temporaryworkers employed for over 12months, 3 established lawshave been changed. Changesare in regard to the Civil Code,Labor Ordnance, MinimumSalary, Temporary Workersand Administration of LaborLaws.

Informative session willbegin on Friday, April 12, inthe conference room of theAruba Trade and Industry As-sociation, ATIA headquartersin Dakota. The topic will par-ticularly pertain to temporaryworkers, the agencies thatplace them and their clientcompanies. The seminar willbe from 2:00 until 4:00 PM.Each information seminar fol-lowing the first will focus on a

DAO representatives will explain newlabor laws during informative sessions


Guests honored at

Divi Phoenix

where the pilot hoped to refuel.The pilot, accompanied by

a flight nurse and flight para-medic, had acknowledged hewas running short of fuel andintended to refuel at Mosby.

Evidence suggested thepilot was distracted by textmessaging during the periodwhen the helicopter was beingreturned to service to pick upthe patient, during both flightsand between flights, the safetyboard said.

The "unnecessary, self-in-duced distraction" occurredwhen safety-critical activitieswere being performed on theground and in the air, Bramblesaid.

Among the preflight prob-lems, the helicopter took off topick up the patient with justone hour of fuel onboard,though the pilot reported twohours of fuel available.

Eventually the helicopterlost power because it had lessthan one liter of fuel remain-ing, according to the NTSB'sinitial findings.

The pilot also was fatigued,having slept a maximum offive hours the previous nightdue to personal activities.

Hersman said the Mosbyaccident involved "perhaps themost crucial and time-honoredaspect of safe flight: aeronau-tical decision making."

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheUS government is investiga -ting pilot texting in the 2011crash of an emergency medicalhelicopter that killed all fourpeople onboard.

At a public hearing yester-day, officials of the NationalTransportation Safety Boardrevealed evidence suggestingthat text messaging by the pilotcontributed to the crash nearMosby, Missouri.

NTSB chairwoman Debo-rah Hersman said the accident"juxtaposes old issues of pilotdecision making with a 21stcentury twist: distractions fromportable electronic devices."

The independent govern-ment safety agency has blamedtexting for road and rail acci-dents, including a 2008 Cali-fornia head-on train crash thatkilled 25 people.

In the case of the helicoptercrash, the pilot was "both dis-tracted and fatigued," saidNTSB investigator Bill Bram-ble.

But topping the safety is-sues involved in the crash was"distraction due to personaltexting," the NTSB said.

The Eurocopter AS350 B2helicopter, operated by Life Net,was transporting a patient to ahospital in Liberty, Missouri,when it crashed on August 26,2011 about one mile short of

US probes pilot texting in

fatal helicopter crash

vious years, Aruba Blue Villageprovided accommodation needsto almost 100 athletes fromColombia, Venezuela and Cura-cao during the period March12-19, 2013. The three partici-pating countries were broughttogether by LIFIDA (Aruba'sYouth Soccer Association) tostrengthen friendship amongneighboring countries thru themost popular sport – soccer.

The resort is also proud tohave hosted 88 athletes fromCuracao during the periodMarch 29 to 31, 2013. The fourgroups from Curacao bestedthe country of Aruba in twomajor divisions in the recentlyplayed soccer tournament inAruba.

Mr. Roy Helder, the presi-dent of Caravel Organization,was pleased with the greatcrowd of soccer supporters andplayers and was inspired topromote and organize soccertournaments again in the suc-ceeding years.

Aruba Blue Village andApartments continues to sup-port these tournaments by pro-viding cheap and affordableroom rates.

month of March 2013 coincid-ing this year’s celebration ofAruba Flag day. As in the pre-

Aruba Blue Village Hotel andApartments hosted two diffe -rent athletic groups during the

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Aruba Blue Village provides

accommodation to visiting athletes

four Labour members havecome forward.

Former Labour chairmanRuud Koole, now a senator,said the oath does not fit inwith a modern monarchy andthe text is archaic. The newmonarch 'should swear to up-hold the constitution and that iswhere it should end,' he said.

Most of the dissident parlia-mentarians said they still planto attend the investiture in theNieuwe Kerk in Amsterdamdespite refusing to swear alle-giance. Several others will beon holiday.

Members of the SocialistParty, pro-animal PvdD andGroenLinks said earlier theywill not swear allegiance. Now

14 MPs and senators will not swearoath to new kingFourteen members of theupper and lower houses of par-liament will not swear alle-giance to king Willem-Alexander when he takes overthe throne on April 30.

The new king will techni-cally be head of state and hisinvestiture is constitutionally aspecial meeting of both housesof parliament.

He was dismayed at howsome left-wing Britons havebeen celebrating her death.

"I'm shocked. How is thispossible? Maybe she wasn'tright all the time but I thinkthis is horrible," he said.

As a van delivered anotherimpressive bouquet, DiaconuDumitru, 33, from Craiova insouthern Romania, who worksas a chef in a Vietnameserestaurant, also laid flowers bythe black wrought-iron fencein front of the house.

"It's a sad day because shewas a great lady. A good politi-cian. She had a lot of very bril-liant ideas. She put a big valueon ending the Cold War. I haveread a lot of things about her,"he said.

liberate from communism.From Ostrava in the eastern

Czech Republic, Martin Wolf,37, works at the upmarketMandarin Oriental hotel inLondon where Thatcher stagedher 80th birthday party.

He thought it was partlydown to Thatcher's influencethat people from eastern Eu-rope are free to live and workin Britain.

"She was very friendly withour country and went thereafter the communist time," hetold AFP. "I'm very sad. I'm in-terested in everything abouther life. She was, for me, agreat, great woman. She is abig icon. People of course re-member her in the Czech Re-public."

LONDON (AFP) - OutsideMargaret Thatcher's plush cen-tral London townhouse, a slowbut steady stream of well-wishers laid flowers yesterdayin tribute to the late Britishpremier.

The creamy-white four-storey home where a frailThatcher spent her quiet finalyears is on Chester Square, aplush oasis of calm two streetsaway from London's busy Vic-toria railway terminus.

Its reinforced black door,with a brass lion knocker, isreminiscent of the famousfront door of 10 DowningStreet, just a mile and a half(2.5 kilometres) away, fromwhere Thatcher governedBritain from 1979 to 1990.

Two police officers guardthe doorway as sympathisersquietly lay their tributes to the"Iron Lady," who died Monday.

Thatcher's home is a fewminutes' walk from London'smain bus terminal, wherecountless newcomers from thenew democracies of easternEurope first set foot on Britishsoil. Among those who cameto lay flowers were immigrantsfrom such countries, whichThatcher steadfastly fought to

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A chain of Dutch chip shops is to

start offering cannabis mayonnaise on their fries, but the

resulting snack will not give you the munchies or make

you high.

"I had the idea because I smell the cannabis coming

from the coffee shop opposite my chip shop in Amster-

dam every day," Manneken Pis chip shop chain owner

Albert van Beek told AFP yesterday.

Unlike the cannabis sold in Dutch coffee shops, the

mayonnaise will contain none of the active ingredient

THC.

"It's just about the taste, we specialise in sauces and

we constantly want to diversify," Van Beek said.

Menus will clearly state that the mayonnaise, vastly

more popular with chips in the Netherlands and Belgium

than ketchup or vinegar, contains no euphoric THC.


Dutch chippies to offer

cannabis mayonnaise fries

From across Europe, admirers lay

flowers at Thatcher's doorstep

LONDON (AFP) - British su-permarket chain Asda yester-day recalled all of its budgetcorned beef range after veteri-nary drug phenylbutazone wasfound in some samples.

The product was withdrawnlast month after traces of horseDNA were discovered, andfurther analysis revealed thepresence of "bute" at the levelof four parts per billion (4ppb).

It is the first time bute hasbeen found in a meat sample,according to the Food Stan-dards Agency, and no otherAsda products are thought tobe affected.

The FSA assured customersthat the chances of anyonefalling ill after eating suchmeat were minimal.

"Horse meat containingphenylbutazone presents avery low risk to humanhealth," said Chief MedicalOfficer Professor DameSazone.

Phenylbutazone, known asbute, is a commonly used med-icine in horses. It is also pre-scribed to some patients whoare suffering from a severeform of arthritis," she added.

rolled," he said, confirming thereported number of victims,two of whom refused treat-ment.

The college was placed onlockdown after the alert wasraised, with students beingtaken off campus while build-ings were searched for the sus-pect.

An alert on the school'swebsite said the incident oc-curred "near and around theHealth Science Center and re-mains an active crime scenewith changing and evolving in-formation." The college wasdue to reopen today.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A UScollege student yesterdaywounded 14 people, two ofthem critically, in an appar-ently unprovoked mass stab-bing in Texas, police said,announcing that a suspect hadbeen taken into custody.

Authorities were alerted toa "male on the loose, stabbingpeople," shortly after 11:00amat Lone Star College nearHouston, Sheriff Adrian Gar-cia, of the Harris County Sher-iff's Office, told reporters.

"A suspect has been takeninto custody, a white male, thatwe believe is approximately 21years of age, and currently en-

exchange of information,which has been the long-timeEU standard, is the only wayforward. The recent evolutionof the US approach furtherconfirms this."

"I can only support any ef-fort to speed up expanding thescope of automatic exchangeand of pushing our standardglobally."

Austria and Luxembourgare the only EU members thatdo not participate in an auto-matic exchange of informationon EU residents who havebank accounts in their coun-tries. Luxembourg announcedover the weekend however thatit was prepared to lift the con-troversial measure, while Aus-tria has only gone as far as tosay that it is prepared to dis-cuss it.

The French government de-scended into a crisis after thecountry's former budget minis-ter and tax tsar, JeromeCahuzac, recently admitted tohaving stashed away hundredsof thousands of euros in a se-cret bank account abroad forabout two decades.

tax evaders but it will also pro-vide a template as to the widermultilateral agreement wehope to see in due course."

It also encouraged otherEuropean Union members tojoin the project.

The facility is inspired bythe Foreign Account Tax Com-pliance Act set up in the US in2010 which requires all Ame -ricans to declare their overseasaccounts. The law also re-quires foreign banks and finan-cial institutions to report thebalances, receipts and with-drawals of American accountholders to US tax authorities.

The letter to the EU, ofwhich AFP obtained a copy,also stated that the countries"look forward to discussinghow progress can be madewithin Europe on improvingtax information exchange be-tween all member states," andurged for progress on a 2011directive that "provides formandatory exchange of infor-mation".

EU Tax Commissioner Al-girdas Semeta welcomed themove, saying that "automatic

PARIS (AFP) - The EU's fivebiggest economies yesterdayannounced a pilot project toexchange more informationbetween them in a move toclamp down on secret bank ac-counts held abroad.

In a letter to the EuropeanCommission, Britain France,Germany, Italy and Spain saidthey had agreed to work on set-ting up a multilateral exchangefacility which "will not onlyhelp in catching and deterring

Top EU states launch project to clamp

down on tax-dodgers


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US college student wounds

14 in Texas stabbing

Air ambulance personnel rush a victim wounded in thestabbing attack to hospital.

Vet drug butefound inBritish

corned beef

AT SEA, PACIFIC OCEAN : This still image, from videoprovided by the US Navy yesterday, shows a remote-controlled target aircraft as it is hit by the Laser WeaponSystem (LaWS) during an exercise in the Pacific Oceanconducted by a technical team from the Naval SurfaceWeapons Center Dahlgren Division and managed &funded by the Office of Naval Research ONR), Naval Sea

Systems Command,The Office of the Sec-retary of DefenseOSD High EnergyLaser Joint Technol-ogy Office and sup-ported by USFleetForces Command.LaWS can be di-

rected onto targets from the radar track obtained from aMK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon system or other target-ing source. The Office of Naval Research's Solid StateLaser (SSL) portfolio includes LaWS development andupgrades providing a quick reaction capability for thefleet with an affordable SSL weapon prototype. This ca-pability provides Navy ships a method for Sailors to eas-ily defeat small boat threats and aerial targets withoutusing bullets. (AFP PHOTO)

of a racist, insane ideology --one man, a Jew, must remem-ber that you should never kill."

At the January hearing, thecourt ruled that Teitel wasmentally competent when hecarried out the offences, andrejected his lawyers' argu-ments that their client had notbeen mentally stable and wastherefore not guilty.

The father-of-four from theWest Bank settlement of ShvutRachel has been branded bythe Israeli press as a "Jewishterrorist."

He was arrested in 2009.In January, he admitted car-

rying out a 2008 bomb attackon the home of leading left-wing Israeli professor ZeevSternhell, wounding him.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Is-raeli court on Tuesday sen-tenced an extreme rightwingUS-born Jewish settler to twolife terms in prison for themurder of two Palestinians in1997.

Jack Teitel, 40, was foundguilty in January of murderinga bus driver and a shepherd, aswell as of two separate at-tempted murders, illegal pos-session of weapons andincitement to violence.

The religious activist washanded two life sentences bythe Jerusalem District Court,one for each of his victims, andwill have to pay compensationof 180,000 shekels($47,000/36,000 euros) to eachof their families.

Teitel was also sentenced to30 years for the two attemptedmurders and other offences.

"I have no regrets or sor-row," Teitel told journalistsafter the trial, saying he was"proud of being in the serviceof God."

Delivering sentence, JudgeYoed Cohen said: "The dayafter Holocaust Memorial Day-- which marks the deaths ofmillions of Jews at the hands


Sternhell said on Israeli tel-evision of Teitel's sentencing:"The phenomenon of politicalviolence is a daily occurrencein Israel, even if Teitel is itsmost extreme manifestation."

Teitel also admitted sendinga parcel bomb to a Jewish cou-ple who accept Jesus as theMessiah, wounding their 15-year-old son.

Teitel, who immigratedfrom the United States, is alsoknown for his hatred of homo-sexuals, calling for the murderof "sodomites".

Settlers frequently clashwith Palestinians in the WestBank but killings are rare. Themost infamous incident wasthe 1994 massacre of 29 Pales-tinians by a radical American-born settler in a mosque in theWest Bank city of Hebron.

Israeli settler gets life for 1997Palestinian murders

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him she had spent the night injail and was taken to a court onTuesday morning.

"They were saying: you're aspy, you're a spy," she re-counted to Altena of her arrest.

The Dutch radio stationBNR which employs Netjesquoted her as saying she wasinterviewing a group of youthsin a cafe when the owner askedto see her passport. He then ac-cused her of inventing storiesand called the police.

She said police found textmessages on her phone, of thesort activists send to journal-ists, calling for President Mo-hamed Morsi's overthrow,according to BNR's website.

A police official told AFPthat Netjes would face ques-tioning on the text messagesfound on her mobile.

Some Egyptians view for-eigners with suspicion. A tele-vision advertisement sponsoredby a security service hadwarned Egyptians not to revealinformation to foreigners whomight be spies.

CAIRO (AFP) - A Dutch jour-nalist was briefly detained inCairo after a group of Egyp-tians accused her of spying asshe interviewed people, a col-league and a police official saidon Tuesday.

Freelance journalist RenaNetjes was carrying out inter-views for a report on youth un-employment on Monday whenpassers-by accused her of spy-ing and handed her over to po-lice, Dutch colleague BasAltena told AFP.

Netjes was released onTuesday afternoon after spend-ing the night in jail, lawyerRagia Omran said.

Dutch ambassador GerardSteeghs wrote on his Twitteraccount that Netjes was freedafter he had spoken with thestate prosecutor.

"But she will have to updateher Egyptian press card. I justpicked her up," he wrote onTwitter.

Bas Altena, her colleague,said over the telephone fromAmsterdam that Netjes calledhim after her arrest and told

Dutch journalist in Cairoreleased

BOGOTA (AFP) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos led a march for peacethrough Bogota Tuesday, calling for an end to decades of armed conflict at a time whenpeace talks in Havana are under fire from his predecessor Alvaro Uribe. Hundreds ofsoldiers joined Santos and his cabinet ministers at the Plaza of the Fallen Heroes, oneof seven starting points for the march by thousands of people, many of them in whiteT-shirts and carrying white flags. Santos has opened peace talks with the FARC, a left-ist guerrilla group founded in 1964. Marchers, bearing signs with the slogan "We area generation of peace," arrived on Bogota's central Plaza Bolivar at noon, when bellsrang in churches across the country.

Amid renewed clashes be-tween ethnic groups and gov-ernment forces, UN troopshave recently stepped up theirpatrols to deter violence andfulfil their mission of protect-ing civilians.

South Sudan's armylaunched the latest offensiveagainst Yau Yau's rebels inMarch.

India is a major contributorto UN peacekeeping forcesaround the world and has suf-fered losses in the past.

The UN estimated that over600 people were killed andaround 300 in smaller revengeattacks.

A subsequent state-widedisarmament campaign led bysecurity forces and mired inclaims from rights groups ofabuses against civilians,pushed some residents to-wards Yau Yau's militia

JUBA (AFP) - Five Indianpeacekeepers and at leastseven UN civilian staff werekilled yesterday in an ambushin South Sudan, officials said,a day after warnings aboutspiralling violence there.

The eastern state of Jongleihas been the scene of wide-spread ethnic conflict sinceSouth Sudan became inde-pendent in July 2011, withbloody battles between rivaltribes, including the Dinka,Lou Nuer and Murle people.

Much of the trouble hasbeen in Pibor county, wherethe UN peacekeeping force isbased.

Bloody clashes between thearmy and a former theologyscholar turned rebel calledDavid Yau Yau from theMurle people have devastatedlarge parts of this troubled re-gion.

Gunmen kill 12 peace-keepers and UN staff inSouth Sudan

SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's bird flu outbreak is "devas-tating" poultry sales, an industry group said Tuesday asthe death toll from the H7N9 virus rose to nine. SinceChina announced over a week ago that H7N9 avian in-fluenza had been found in humans for the first time, thenumber of people confirmed to have been infected hasrisen to 28. Chinese authorities say they do not knowhow the virus is spreading, though it is believed the in-fection is passing from birds to humans. China has beenhit by a series of food scandals in recent years, somecaused by producers deliberately using sub-standard orillegal ingredients, making the public wary over whatthey consume.

Advised by agencies likeANSES, the French parliamentin December voted to ban BPAin baby food packaging from2013 and in all food containersfrom 2015.

The chemical is still usedaround the world in plasticproducts, and the United Statessaid last year it would not im-pose a general ban of BPA asthere was no evidence of harmto adults.

In February, a report on ananalysis of 150 scientific stud-ies said bisphenol A may beused in quantities too small toaffect human health.

contain it -- including thermalpaper used in some kinds ofcash register slips or ATM re-ceipts.

Bisphenol is also commonlyfound on CDs and DVDs andplastic containers used for mi-crowave cooking or fridgestorage.

Ecology and Energy Minis-ter Delphine Batho said that onthe basis of the ANSES report,France would recommend thatthe European Commission banthe use of bisphenol A in ther-mal paper receipts.

In a report summarising sev-eral global scientific studies onthe topic up to July 2012,ANSES said its experts were"moderately" confident of theevidence pointing to a risk tobabies in the womb, thoughthe danger for other people re-mained unclear.

The risk "may be charac-terised... by increased sensitiv-ity of the mammary gland tothe formation of tumours. Therisk potentially concerns bothsexes," said the report.

There was also a possiblerisk for the foetus' brain, me-tabolism and reproductive sys-tem, it added.

ANSES stressed there werestill many uncertainties in thedata.

PARIS (AFP) - France saidTuesday it would call for Eu-rope-wide controls on a paperproduct containing bisphenolA after a watchdog agency saidthe widely-used chemical mayexpose unborn children tobreast cancer later in life.

Bisphenol A, or BPA, is acommon component of plasticbottles and the linings of foodcans, but some studies havelinked it to brain and nervoussystem problems, reproductivedisorders and obesity.

It has been banned for use inbaby bottles by the EuropeanUnion, United States andCanada.

France's ANSES food safetyagency urged pregnant womento avoid food preserved inlined cans, or drinking waterfrom polycarbonate waterfountains found in many officebuildings which it said was a"source of exposure to bisphe-nol A".

It also advised them to avoidhandling slips from shop tills,and urged further research intothe risk of exposure forcashiers.

The agency said bisphenolA could pose health risks tounborn children if their moth-ers ingested, inhaled or repeat-edly touched products that

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consumers of a toxinwhen they are at1/1000th of the amountdeemed as a publichealth risk.

But the companiesclaim that the U.S. Foodand Drug Administra-tion tested their prod-ucts and did not findlead levels to be highenough to require warn-

ing labels, according to theirlawyers.

And even more, the defenseargues that lead occurs natu-rally in the fruits and vegeta-bles that comprise theirproducts-and if they can provethis claim, it could exemptthem from having to imple-ment warning labels.

And with pending litigationover the labeling question, theplaintiffs hope that companieswill work toward having nolead in their products becauseof the fear of losing businessdue to the threat of unattractivewarning labels.

-- Baby food makers like Ger-ber and Del Monte Foods arebeing targeted by a lawsuitfrom an environmental groupover product labeling.

The trial that is currently un-derway in California will de-cide whether these large babyfood companies should placewarning labels on their prod-ucts being sold in the state.

The environmental group,Environmental Law Founda-tion, claims that these compa-nies are selling products withhigh enough levels of lead torequire sufficient labelingunder Proposition 65 whichensures that companies warn

Lead In Baby Food - TargetedBy Lawsuit

Indo-Canadian studentgives boost to cancertreatmentOTTAWA (AFP) - A Cana-dian high school studenthas improved an ineffec-tive experimental cancertherapy with a simpletweak -- pairing it with an-tibiotics -- earning acco-lades from a panel ofeminent scientists.

Cancer "photothermaltherapy" -- or PTT -- in-volves injecting a patientwith gold nanoparticles.These then accumulate intumors and, when heatedusing light, attack the can-cer cells.

The idea has shownpromise but is not very ef-fective because the cancercells fight back, producingheat-shock proteins toprotect themselves.

However, India-bornHigh school student ArjunNair, 16, showed how anantibiotic (17-AAG) mayovercome the defensescancer cell deploy andmake the treatment moreeffective.

The discovery earnedNair the top prize in the20th Sanofi BioGENEiusChallenge Canada.

include examples of successfultherapy using adult stem cells.

The conference follows asimilar one held in November2011 and like the previous oneit is being organised togetherwith the US laboratoryNeoStem, headed up by RobinSmith, who is also president ofthe "Stem for Life Founda-tion".

- - A group of European researchers has proposed thelargest quantum network yet: Between Earth and the In-ternational Space Station. Such a network would see en-tangled photons transmitted over a distance of 250 miles— two or three times greater than previous quantumcommunication experiments. Not only will this be the firstquantum experiment in space, but it will allow the scien-tists to see if entanglement really is instantaneous overlong distances, and whether it’s affected by gravity. photo

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BRUSSELS (AFP) - Googlewas in the firing line again onTuesday after a group of majorcompanies, including Mi-crosoft and Oracle, com-plained to the EuropeanCommission over Google's of-ferings for Android-poweredmobile phones.

FairSearch said it had fileda complaint with the Commis-sion, charging that the Internetgiant wanted Android opera-tors to use its leading applica-tions such as Maps orYouTube.

It said Google's Android isthe dominant smartphone op-erating system, accounting for70 percent at end-2012, whileit had 96 percent of mobilephone search advertising.

The companies grouped inFairSearch have also com-plained about Google in theCommission's 2010 anti-trustprobe of the firm which hasfocused on its dominance ofthe Internet search market.

Last week, six Europeancountries, including Franceand Britain, launched joint ac-tion against Google to try toget it to scale back new moni-toring powers that watchdogsbelieve violate EU privacyprotection rules.

Google last year rolled outa common user privacy policyfor its services that groupedsome 60 previous sets of rulesinto one and allowed the com-pany to track users moreclosely to develop targeted ad-vertising.

The action came after theEuropean Union's 27 memberstates warned Google in Octo-ber not to apply the new pol-icy and gave it four months tomake changes or face legalaction.

When that deadline expiredin February, several Europeandata protection agencies setup a task force to pursue coor-dinated action against the USgiant.

Google has repeatedlymaintained that its privacypolicy respects European law,although earlier this monthGoogle agreed to pay a $7 mil-lion fine in the United Statesfor stealthily collecting datafrom private Wi-Fi hotspotsvia a mapping service.

EU Competition Commis-sioner Joaquin Almunia toldthe New York Times on Tues-day that Google was due to re-ceive proposals this week aspart of the probe into possibleabuses in its search business.

Microsoft, Oracle takeGoogle to task at EUover Android phones

1) Ask mom for greenschool supplies.2) Walk, carpool, or takethe bus to school.3) Turn off the water whileshowering and brushingteeth.4) Turn off lights and appli-ances/electronics whennot in use.5) Volunteer with commu-nity organizations thatplant trees.6) Ease up on the videogames.7) If parents recycle, allowkids to sort.8)Use shopping bagswhen going to the grocerystore.

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - TheVatican will organise a confer-ence to promote adult stem cellresearch as an alternative to re-search using destroyed humanembryos, which is consideredby the Roman Catholic Churchas deeply unethical and less ef-fective.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi,head of the Vatican's PontificalCouncil for Culture, at a brief-ing on Tuesday said severalleading world scientists wouldattend including Britain's JohnGurdon, winner of the NobelPrize for Medicine last year.

Ravasi said the upcomingmeeting showed that theChurch did "not intervene onlynegatively" in the debate onstem cell research and that itscommitment to finding cureswas not only "words".

The cardinal said he wouldpersonally present Pope Fran-cis with the results of the three-day conference, which will

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gains in tech shares Microsoftand Intel.

The Dow rose 59.98 points(0.41 percent) to 14,673.46.

The broad-based S&P 500jumped 5.54 (0.35 percent) to1,568.61, while the tech-richNasdaq Composite Indexadded 15.61 (0.48 percent) to3,237.86.

Technology shares drovethe gains: Microsoft (+3.6 per-cent), Intel (+3.1 percent),Cisco (+1.9 percent) and Ora-cle (+2.1 percent).

A 2.1 percent rise by Dowmember Caterpillar alsohelped.

Solar cell maker First Solarsurged 45.5 percent after sur-prising the market with a fore-cast for strong sales through2015. The company projected$3.8-$4 billion in net sales in2013.

Struggling retail giant J.C.Penney sank 12.2 percent oneday after replacing controver-sial chief executive Ron John-son with Johnson's predecessorMyron Ullman.

Bond prices fell. The yieldon the 10-year Treasury rose to1.75 percent from 1.73 per-cent, while the 30-year bondedged to 2.93 percent from2.90 percent. Bond pricesmove inversely to yields.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - TheInternational Monetary Fundon Tuesday warned centralbanks to keep an eye on infla-tion and resist political pres-sure to focus policy only onlowering unemployment.

With many governmentsdesperate to find ways to gen-erate jobs, the IMF said, it isever more important for centralbanks to assert their independ-ence to keep an eye on all po-tential problems in theeconomy -- whether growth,prices, or jobs.

"In the wake of the GreatRecession, there is political ur-gency to reduce unemploy-ment," the IMF said in asection of its World EconomicOutlook.

While the IMF played downthe immediate threat of a surgein inflation, many economistsremain concerned that the ex-ceptionally loose monetarypolicies pursued by major cen-tral banks will eventually sparkrunaway price increases.

In the four years since theglobal financial crisis, ad-vanced economies have un-loaded massive monetaryfirepower to try to jump-startgrowth and create jobs.

The US Federal Reserve andthe Bank of England have em-ployed large bond-purchaseprograms, or quantitative eas-ing (QE), while the EuropeanCentral Bank has focused onlending.

Last week, the Bank ofJapan announced an aggressiveQE program and monetary pol-icy to tackle deflation and enddecades of tepid growth.

So far the wave of easymoney has not yet unhingedwidespread expectations thatprices will remain tame amidweak growth.

In the past, inflation rose asunemployment fell, an inverserelationship known as thePhillips curve.

That relationship has flat-tened out, according to IMFanalysts, and they now warnthat inflation can suddenly pickup without an improvement injoblessness if other aspects ofthe situation change -- particu-larly market and consumer ex-pectations about inflation.

Central banks would betterserve their mission if theyadopt a dual-mandate policythat would focus not only oninflation but on an explicitmandate to stabilize output, theIMF said.

NEW YORK (AFP) - A sub-dued inflation report fromChina, Iran nuclear plans anda weaker dollar helped to liftoil prices Tuesday as the mar-ket awaited key US oil inven-tory data.

New York's main contract,West Texas Intermediate(WTI) for May, closed at$94.20 a barrel, a gain of 84cents from Monday.

Brent North Sea crude fordelivery in May jumped $1.57to settle at $106.23 a barrel inLondon trade.

WTI prices rose "afterChina reported inflation easedmore than people expected,"said Bart Melek of TD Securi-ties.

The Chinese governmentsaid the country's consumerprice index rose 2.1 percent inin March, well below the 10-month-high of 3.2 percent inFebruary and below the 2.4percent CPI reading forecastby analysts.

The slowdown in inflationeased investor concerns thatBeijing would want to tightenmonetary policy if inflationwere heating up.

Traders also digested Iran'sannouncement of a new ura-nium production facility andtwo extraction mines only daysafter talks with world powerson its disputed nuclear pro-gram again ended in deadlock.

"Prices were buoyed bynews that Iran was launching

two new nuclear programs,"said James Williams of WTRGEconomics.

Robert Yawger of MizuhoSecurities USA said the dol-lar's weakness and anticipationof the US oil inventories reporthad supported the market.

A softer greenback makesdollar-priced oil more attrac-tive to buyers using strongercurrencies.

today, the US Departmentof Energy's weekly petroleumstockpiles report was expectedto show another increase incrude oil supplies, to theirhighest level in 22 years, saidMatt Smith of Schneider Elec-tric.

According to analystspolled by Dow JonesNewswires, the DoE will re-port an increase of 1.2 millionbarrels of crude oil in the weekending April 5.

Gasoline stockpiles in theworld's largest economy wereestimated to have fallen by 1.5million barrels, and distillates,including diesel and heatingfuel, were projected to fall by900,000 barrels.

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LONDON (AFP) - : Flowers and mementos left by mem-bers of the public and admirers sit outside the home offormer British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in cen-tral London yesterday. Former British prime ministerMargaret Thatcher who shaped a generation of Britishpolitics, died following a stroke monday at the age of 87,her spokesman said. Britain stood deeply divided onTuesday over the legacy of former prime minister Mar-garet Thatcher as it made preparations for the grand fu-neral next week of the woman known around the globeas the "Iron Lady". Tributes from world leaders whohailed her role in bringing down communism kept flood-ing in as the British government announced thatThatcher would be laid to rest on April 17 in London's StPaul's Cathedral. Queen Elizabeth II will lead the mourn-ers at the ceremonial funeral, one step down from thestate funeral given to legendary wartime leader WinstonChurchill, but the same honour afforded to the QueenMother and to Princess Diana.

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi bil-lionaire prince Alwaleed binTalal has called for parliamen-tary elections in the absolutemonarchy where the kingnames members of a toothlessShura consultative council.

Prince Alwaleed, the richestArab businessman and anephew of King Abdullah, saidin a television interview themonarch's January decision toappoint 30 women to the coun-cil was "very important" butneeded to go further.

"For this to become historic,I think two things are essential:first, elections, even if partial,and, more importantly, (giv-ing) powers," he said in the in-terview aired on severalchannels, most belonging tohis media empire.

The prince also said thatending a ban on women driv-

ing in Saudi Arabia was a mat-ter of time, despite strong re-sistance from religiousconservatives in the desertkingdom that is the birthplaceof Islam.

"I think that driving (forwomen) is definitely coming,"he said, playing up the eco-nomic benefits of savingwages paid to foreign drivers.

Prince Alwaleed regrettedthe "negative" outcome ofArab Spring uprisings, sayingthe politics of new Islamist-dominated governments "donot reflect the aspirations ofthe people ... for freedom andjustice."

The uprisings which top-pled strong Arab leaders wouldnot reach the Gulf monarchies,where "the leaders look afterthe interests of their peoples,"said the prince.

Billionaire prince calls onSaudi to introduce polls

PANAJI (AFP) - An Indianlawmaker has threatened to goon hunger strike if a Playboynightclub is allowed to open inGoa, claiming it would pro-mote prostitution in the touristhub.

Michael Lobo, a state legis-lator in India's main oppositionBharatiya Janata Party (BJP),is opposing a club proposed onCandolim beach -- the first ofdozens of Playboy outletsplanned across the country.

Despite assurances of nonudity in the clubs, Lobo said

it was "obvious" nobodywould pay for membership"just to sit and eat groundnuts.They will try to get value formoney".

PB Lifestyle, the Indianfranchisee of the Playboybrand, announced plans in No-vember to open 120 clubs, ho-tels, fashion cafes and shops inIndia over the next 10 years.

Goa's Tourism MinisterDilip Parulekar says the appli-cation for the first such club isunder consideration, but reit-erated warnings that theywould "never allow vulgarity".

In a bid to appease the coun-try's conservative values, Play-boy has unveiled a new-lookcostume for the "bunny girl"waitresses in Indian outlets.

Playboy magazine remainsbanned in India, along with ahost of other foreign "adult"publications, owing to obscen-ity laws banning materialdeemed "lascivious or appeal-ing to prurient interests".

Indian MP threatens hungerstrike over Playboy club

AMSTERDAM (AFP) -Amsterdam's world-famousRijksmuseum revealed its eagerly-awaited 21st centuryidentity after a vast 10-year renovation aimed at breath-ing new life into its unparallelled collection of GoldenAge masterpieces. Architects and artisans have re-stored much of the original styling of the Gothic-Renais-sance building, designed by Pierre Cuypers and firstopened in 1885, but with extensive modern touches. Themuseum covers 800 years of Dutch history through8,000 objects, distributed through 80 rooms. A one mile(1.5-kilometre) walk around the galleries will take you"from the Middle Ages to Mondrian."

ROME (AFP) - Italian policeon last week arrested a priestaccused of defrauding a Vati-can-linked hospital in Romethat he managed of four mil-lion euros ($5.1 million), partof which he used to buy an 18-room villa in Tuscany set on23 hectares of land.

Father Franco Decaminada,a friar who took vows ofpoverty, has been placed underhouse arrest.

He headed up the presti-gious Immaculate Institute ofDermopathology between2004 and 2011.

The specialist hospital hasbeen placed under administra-tion after it registered losses of600 million euros and popeBenedict XVI in one of his lastacts as pontiff last month ap-pointed a cardinal to resolveits economic woes.

The tax police said in astatement that Decaminadabought his villa in Tuscany fora million euros -- "essentiallywith the proceeds of hiscrime".

"The investigation tracedfraud for a total of 14 millioneuros," the police said.

Italian media said policelinked four million euros ofthat total directly to Decami-nada.

Two businessmen are alsounder investigation and havealso been placed under housearrest.

The hospital belongs to the"Congregation of the Sons ofthe Immaculate Conception",which was set up in the 19thcentury and became well-known for producing creamsto treat ringworm.

The congregation managestwo other hospitals.

The police said it had founddaily operations in which thepriest took money from thehospital as "reimbursement ofcosts" without justification.

The hospital has not paid its1,500 employees including300 doctors for severalmonths.

Italian priestarrested for 4million-eurofraud

Thatcher funeral set for nextweek in divided Britain

Renewed Rijksmuseumrevamps the Golden Age

choice of chicken or porkschnitzel prepared any of fiveways, a platter with salad andside dish is $17.50. Wednesdayis “All you can eat grouper,prepared any of five ways,with veggies and side dish,$19.50. Thursday they do itagain with unlimited ribs donethree ways for $17.50 withsalad, slaw and fries, Saturdaymeans endless rib eye steakwith salad and fries for $19.50.Friday evening ends the workweek with Karaoke Night, aconvivial and fun eveningwhen islanders kick back andlet loose their inner rock star.

Barney’s is located justnext to the huge supermar-ket on the PalmBeach/Noord road, not farfrom the gas station. Theyare open from 5:00 to 11:00PM and closed on Mondays.Check out their full menu athttp://www.barneysaruba.com or call 586-5420 for reser-vations and directions.

fries and coleslaw. Patrons arehanded a special hamburgerchecklist, which features a fullmenu of toppings, sauces andcheeses to customize yourorder to create the ideal burger.One can also opt for a secondor third hamburger patty for avery nominal cost.

High end items on themenu, such as the SeafoodPasta, are only $20.50. Theyalso have a kid’s menu with fa-vorites such as a Kid’s Burger,chicken fingers and Mac &Cheese; most items are only$4. One regular described theplace as particularly “kid-friendly,” with Elina, a motherherself, having devised a num-ber of methods to keep youngones entertained. The menuhas a range to please patronswho are in the mood for some-thing simple while other canbe indulgent gourmands.

Tuesday through Saturdayevenings they have specialtynights at bargain rates. Tues-day is Schnitzel Night, with a


investment. To further en-hance this, Gold Coast man-agement have inaugurated anumber of in-house servicesand have recently become af-filiated Interval International,the world’s largest network ofvacation ownership propertieswhich provides an unlimitedinternational pool of investorsto tap for ownership and rentalprospects. Property exchangefor a vacation in another desti-nation is also availablethrough the Interval Interna-tional affiliation. Gold Coast’sown rental services have alsoproven highly successful in as-sisting owners in renting theirvillas; 24-hour security andmaintenance services also tipthe scales when it is time tomake a decision. Aside fromall this, housekeeping, childcare, catering services , carrental through its partnershipwith AVIS car rental are alsoavailable as well as pre-shop-ping services so cupboardsand refrigerators are stockedupon arrival, which can alsobe arranged through theirproperty management depart-ment. Personnel are also avail-able to assist in arrangingrestaurant reservations and is-land activities.

Visit their website: www.goldcoastaruba.com formore details and availabilityor call 586-2200 to arrange apersonal tour.

ties such as those at GoldCoast, make it easy for someowners to see a valuable returnon their investment.

The design of the resi-dences and public areas isopen, airy and spacious, takingfull advantage of the island en-vironment, with quality con-struction and finishingavailable. Partnering with twoof Aruba’s top providers ofkitchens and bathrooms en-ables developers to offer cus-tom options allowing buyersto individualize their homes.An elegant and chic furniturepackage is available or islanddesigners will assist owners infinishing the décor to theirspecific tastes.

There are many aspects topurchasing property; not theleast is the future value of the

complete will be a communityof 260 town homes, villas andcondominiums with a stunningclubhouse complemented bytwo additional communitypool areas , The Clubhouse isabout to start construction andwill offer to the communityhomeowners and visitors 2tennis courts, full service spaand fitness center as well as astunning pool area and is ex-pected to be complete by early2013. It will also house arestaurant and mini-market.

Owners who purchasedupon the groundbreaking onlya few short years ago, are al-ready enjoying a nearly 50%appreciation on their invest-ment, particularly those takingadvantage of the on site man-agement’s rental services pro-gram. There is always a greatdemand for Aruba and facili-

fers a quiet and secluded get-away; we are very pleased bythe response to our concept.”

Fito, with his sister Mayrinand brother Rudy operate CasBon, which has been con-structing homes and buildingdevelopments for all budgetsfor nearly twenty years. “GoldCoast Aruba is the jewel in ourcrown,” observes Fito. “Wewere very excited about thisproject and the scope of actualand planned facilities andamenities. We have spoken tocountless island visitors to findout what they would reallywant in a permanent residenceon Aruba, and took fromthere.”

Input from frequent vaca-tioners who have dreamed oftheir own home in Aruba con-tributed to the realization ofGold Coast Aruba which when

-- Management of Gold CoastAruba, the island’s newest andmost innovative gated com-munity, reports that sales havebeen very good and encourag-ing as the global economy re-covers and people looking topurchase vacation homes havefound that Gold Coast is anoutstanding investment value.Director of Sales, Fito Croeshas noticed a surprising per-centage of owners in reality donot spend a great amount oftime personally to use the vil-las or town homes they pur-chase, but are takingadvantage of Gold Coast’srental services to turn their in-vestment into ready income.

“The greater portion ofhome owners are using their“home away from home” inAruba to escape the wintermonths, or spend holidayswith the family on the island,”he remarked, “but I am grati-fied by how many are buyingbecause they felt secure withreal estate investment onAruba. They really study thehistory and economy of the is-land and are impressed withthe political stability and con-tinually increasing value ofprime locations. Gold Coast isin the heart of Malmok, con-sidered Aruba’s most exclu-sive community where thevalue of properties has only in-creased over time. It is onlyminutes to the best beachesand all the action, and yet of-

Gold Coast Aruba: This is the time to invest

A few months ago, PalmBeach welcomed a cozy newplace that offers good food,great prices and a uniquelywarm, welcoming ambiancethat makes patrons feel as ifthey are visiting with friendsrather than just eating out.Even the name, “Barney’s”,which was inspired by BarneyRubble of the Flintstones, is anexpression of the good humor

of its owners and your hosts,Ron and Elina.

Ron and Elina have a verycongenial division of labor; heenjoys being bartender andplaying around with his “cock-tail of the day” while she seesto it that everyone is well satis-fied with their meal. Chef Janis in the kitchen doing hismagic; patrons praise theirspicy Firecracker Shrimp appe-

tizer and mushrooms stuffedwith escargot, priced at $9.50and $8.50, or the SmokedTrout Fillet for a real gourmettreat.

They are particularly popu-lar for their “Build Your OwnBarney Burger” using speciallyimported organic beef fromHolland, guaranteed to havebeen raised without steroids orantibiotics, only $9.50 with

Spend a fun evening with friends at Barney’s

A place where you feel like you are with friends

Germany defender HeikoWestermann has been relievedof the captaincy with the arm-band handed to ex-RealMadrid and Tottenham Hot-spur midfielder Van der Vaartwith Hamburg four pointsfrom a Europa League placewith six games left.

"I want to make him moreresponsible, he has to be a rolemodel on the field and aleader," said Fink of Van derVaart with Hamburg at Mainz05 on Saturday.

Having read the riot act tohis team after a lacklustre per-formance against Freiburg,Fink said he no longer had thefeeling centre-back Wester-mann, who has been captainsince August 2010, can bothanchor the defence and leadthe team.

"Heiko is a great player anda real pro, but I think he cur-rently can't manage his ownperformance and still take careof all the other things," saidFink.

"I have the feeling it willhelp him to be able to concen-trate on his performance."

Van der Vaart has captainedHamburg before, from 2006until 2008, in his first stint atthe north German club.

BERLIN (AFP) - Hamburgcoach Thorsten Fink has madeDutch midfield star Rafael vander Vaart captain for the lastsix league games of the seasonin a bid to halt his team'sslump and win a EuropaLeague place.

Hamburg are reeling afterlosing their last three games in-cluding the 9-2 hammering atBayern Munich ten days agobefore being floored by a 1-0home defeat at the hands ofFreiburg last Saturday.

Football: Van der Vaartmade new Hamburgcaptain


TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Shinsuke Yamanaka defeatedMalcolm Tunacao of the Philippines by technical knock-out to defend his World Boxing Council (WBC) ban-tamweight title on Monday. Yamanaka, 30, floored thechallenger twice in the third round with a straight left.And it was the same straight left shot that knocked abloodied Tunacao to the canvas one minute and 57 sec-onds into the 12th, for the referee to top the fight.

after he failed to stop the Ger-mans' opener despite the ballbeing deflected.

While Juventus played downthat remark, it should provideextra motivation for the Italians.

Bayern 'keeper Manuel Neuer,meanwhile, said: "Buffon re-mains a top goalkeeper and youcan't forget he stopped us fromwinning 3-0 in the first leg."

Despite their 2-0 goal cush-ion, Bayern manager JuppHeynckes said: "It doesn'tchange anything for us.

"We want to score an awaygoal and try to win this game.Juventus remain a top team,they've shown that on severaloccasions including in theChampions League."

Although Italian media haslargely played up Becken-bauer's jibe at Buffon -- to thepoint that Juve striker MirkoVucinic was quoted as sayingthe second leg would be "war"-- Heynckes was quick to putthings into perspective.Meanwhile the new Bun-desliga winners Bayern Mu-nich will officially receive thechampionship shield after theirfinal home game against Augs-burg on May 11, the GermanFootball League (DFL) said onTuesday.

TURIN (AFP) - Arjen Robbenyesterday said that Bayern Mu-nich's recent Bundesliga titletriumph has taken the pressureoff as they look to qualify fortheir third Champions Leaguesemi-finals in four yearsagainst Juventus.

Bayern outclassed the Italianchampions 2-0 in the first leg inMunich last week and history isagainst the hosts, who havenever overturned a 2-0 first legdefeat in the competition.

Although the Bianconeri arehoping to end that streak ontoday, Robben warned thatBayern are feeling no pressurefollowing their 23rd title tri-umph at the weekend with sixmatches remaining in the cam-paign.

Bayern -- beaten ChampionsLeague finalists in 2010 and2012 -- have been particularlysolid away from home this sea-son but Robben believes that issimply part of what has been asterling season so far.

Juventus will be hoping fora different outcome and comeinto the game still smartingfrom a jibe aimed last week attheir goalkeeper Gianluigi Buf-fon, who was labelled a "pen-sioner" by honorary Bayernpresident Franz Beckenbauer

Football: 'Pressure off'as Bayern eye semis

Jupp Heynckes celebrates with his players

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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Angels starting pitcherJered Weaver has a fracture in his left elbow and is out4-6 weeks. Weaver broke the bone diving awkwardly try-ing to get out of the way of a comebacker on Sunday.The good news is that the break isn’t in his throwingarm, so Weaver should be able to return with no set-backs once the arm heals. Of greater concern is whetherWeaver’s right arm is also injured.

Angels' Weaver out 4-6

wks with broken left elbow

Boxing: Japan's Yamanaka

maintains WBC title

"I think life is all about hav-ing a balance and trying to findequilibrium and not gettingthings one way or the otherand I feel very balanced,"Woods said. "It's just a balancein life and I think that's whatyou're seeing."

There clearly is somethingto see, a lighter tone thanWoods has adopted, partlyfrom the fact he made himselfthe man to beat this week withwins at Torrey Pines, Doraland Bay Hill and stronger put-ting than he has had in years.

"I feel comfortable withevery aspect of my game,"Woods said. "I feel that I'veimproved and I've got moreconsistent and I think the winsshow that.

"It's something that I'mproud of so far this year andhopefully I can continue it thisweek and the rest of the year."

Woods said that he stoppedplaying early morning practicerounds in favor of later ses-sions this week because he"just wanted to mess with (re-porters). Did it work?Maybe?"

Woods pondered being anelder statesman at Augusta asan honorary starter the wayNicklaus, Arnold Palmer andGary Player are this year.

"What's the minimum age,70-plus?" Woods said with asmile. "Jack's the youngestright now. Yeah, that's a longtime. Let me just try to get to40 first."

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AUGUSTA (AFP) - TigerWoods says he is enjoying amore balanced life in manyways, but his hunger to over-take Jack Nicklaus' careerrecord of 18 major golf titlesremains as great as ever.

"I would like to be able toget to that point," Woods saidTuesday. "It took Jack a whileto get to 18, all the way until hewas 46 years old, so there'splenty of opportunities for me."

The 37-year-old Americanseeks his 15th major title start-ing Thursday in the 77th Mas-ters at Augusta National,where Woods has won fourtimes but has not taken home

the green jacket since 2005.Woods has not won any

major title since the 2008 USOpen, hindered by nagging leginjuries and an infamous sexscandal that led to a divorce,but he has won three times thisyear and hopes to end hismajor drought.

World No. 1 Woods made itclear that he thinks that, on theverge of his 19th Masters start,he is only halfway through hiscareer and that he will havemany more years to chase hisboyhood dream of passingNicklaus.

"That's one of the neatthings about our career -- it'sso long," Woods said. "Wehave an opportunity to play ba-sically 30 years solidly at ahigh level. Some of the guyscome out here at 20 and havedone well into their 50s.

Woods revealed last monthhis new girlfriend is US skistar Lindsey Vonn and onTuesday showed a more re-laxed side than in a typicalMasters week.

-- Entertainment mogul andrapper Jay-Z has started theprocess of divesting his smallshare of ownership with theBrooklyn Nets to extend hisRoc Nation Sports representa-tion business into basketball

NBA rules mandate that noone individual affiliated with a

player representation com-pany can have an ownershipstake with an NBA team.

Jay-Z's Roc Nation com-pany has partnered with Cre-ative Artists Agency (CAA) tolaunch a sports representationbusiness that recently securedNew York Yankees starRobinson Cano.

The process is expected tobe completed in time for RocNation to compete for playersentering the June NBA draft,but there's no guarantee of thetiming, sources said.

Among NBA, NBPA andNets constituencies, there areseveral hurdles to overcomebefore a formal announcementwill be made.

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However, after Ronaldohad missed a guilt edged op-portunity to double his tally onthe night, Galatasaray pro-duced a remarkable comebackas Emmanuel Eboue thumpedin an equaliser from the edgeof the box.

Wesley Sneijder and DidierDrogba then added two goalsin a minute to ensure a nervy

STANBUL (AFP) - RealMadrid withstood a second-half onslaught fromGalatasaray to qualify for theirthird successive ChampionsLeague semi-final 5-3 on ag-gregate, despite losing 3-2 onthe night.

Already leading 3-0 fromthe first-leg last week, it tookLos Blancos just eight minutesto build on their advantage asSami Khedira crossed for Cris-


Prince Fielder added anRBI double and Matt Tu-iasosopo chipped in anRBI single for the Tigers.

Melky Cabrera hadthree hits, including the1,000th of his career, anddrove in a run for Toronto.Jose Bautista returned tothe Blue Jays lineup aftermissing three games witha right ankle sprain. Serv-ing as the designated hit-ter, Bautista went hitless infour at-bats.

Toronto starter BrandonMorrow (1-0) gave up fiveruns and nine hits in 3 2/3innings to absorb the lossin Toronto's first roadgame. He allowed single

runs in the first and secondinning and left after surren-dering Cabrera's two-outhomer.

Detroit left fielder DonKelly robbed Blue Jayscatcher J.P. Arencibia of asecond-inning homer, leapingand crashing into the left-field fence in the process.Kelly started because Tigersdesignated hitter Victor Mar-tinez missed the game aftersuffering a cut on his rightthumb that required eightstitches. Andy Dirks, the reg-ular left fielder, served as theDH.

Morrow also got an assistfrom his defense in the third,as right fielder Rajai Davisthrew out Hunter at homeafter a Cabrera single.

DETROIT -- Reigning Amer-ican League Most ValuablePlayer Miguel Cabrera hadfour hits and drove in fourruns as the Detroit Tigersthumped the Toronto BlueJays 7-3 in the opener of athree-game series at Comer-ica Park on Tuesday.

Cabrera hit his first homerof the season, a three-runblast, while Torii Hunterreached 2,000 career hitswith a three-hit effort. Cabr-era's fourth-inning homer,which just cleared the right-field fence, made him thefirst player to have 100 atComerica Park.

Anibal Sanchez (1-0) heldToronto to two runs in seveninnings and struck out eight.Alex Avila had a solo homer-- his second this season --

MLB : Tigers 7 -

Blue Jays 3

Ronaldo celebrating his goal at 8min into the match

final 18 minutes for Madrid.

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semi-final, before Ronaldo

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last four with another sweet

strike in stoppage time.

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in perfect fashion.

While in Germany Borussia

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Tuesday to reach the last four

of the Champions League.

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"Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera, right, celebrates withteammate Torii Hunter (48) after hitting a three-run homerun

"Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrerawatches his three-run home run

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