• Dutch Prime Minister apologizes for role Netherlands played in slave trade

    Dutch Prime Minister apologizes for role Netherlands played in slave trade

    Dec 19, 2022 07:47 PM EDT

    ... arisen in this context." Dutch ministers fanned out Monday to discuss the issue in Suriname and former colonies that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands — Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten as well as three Caribbean islands that are officially special municipalities in the Netherlands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.

  • WATCH: Biden, fellow leaders of the Americas announce migration pact despite discord

    WATCH: Biden, fellow leaders of the Americas announce migration pact despite discord

    Jun 10, 2022 03:38 PM EDT

    ... them Haitians, which was triple from 2020. Many Nicaraguans escape to Costa Rica, while displaced Venezuelans account for about one-sixth the population of tiny Aruba. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that the summit declaration acknowledged migration's regional dimensions. He and other U.S. officials ...

  • WATCH: Biden, Harris deliver inaugural remarks for 9th Summit of the Americas

    WATCH: Biden, Harris deliver inaugural remarks for 9th Summit of the Americas

    Jun 08, 2022 06:39 PM EDT

    ... them Haitians, which was triple from 2020. Many Nicaraguans escape to Costa Rica, while displaced Venezuelans account for about one-sixth the population of tiny Aruba. “Countries are already having to do this, so rather than each country trying to sort this out and figure it out for themselves, what ...

  • House ethics panel opens investigation into Madison Cawthorn

    House ethics panel opens investigation into Madison Cawthorn

    May 23, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... report that it found “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., improperly accepted a free trip for him and his family to Aruba from a company that also provided services to his campaign, and used his congressional staff to plan the vacation. Ryan Kelly, a spokesperson for ...

  • New documentary highlights plight of missing Black women and why their cases go ignored

    New documentary highlights plight of missing Black women and why their cases go ignored

    Nov 23, 2021 11:25 PM EDT

    ... guess, also includes the wall-to-wall coverage that actually gets communities up in arms, to the point where you have people flying themselves to Aruba to help look for Natalee Holloway. So it's not even just the media. It's this idea of like, why do people as ...

  • 2 U.S. 'mercenaries' arrested after raid in Venezuela

    2 U.S. 'mercenaries' arrested after raid in Venezuela

    May 05, 2020 02:00 PM EDT

    ... gone onto landfall, they would have gone to a safe house.” Goudreau said the two were waiting for a boat on the Caribbean island of Aruba with emergency fuel to help extract them. Venezuelan state TV showed showed images on state TV of several unidentified men handcuffed and lying prone ...

  • U.S. indicts Venezuela's Maduro on narcoterrorism charges

    U.S. indicts Venezuela's Maduro on narcoterrorism charges

    Mar 26, 2020 04:59 PM EDT

    ... and weapons conspiracy that prosecutors contend dates back to the start of Hugo Chavez's revolution in 1999 occurred in places as far afield as Aruba, Syria, Mexico, Honduras and Iran, the indictment alleged. In coordinated actions, prosecutors in Miami charged the head of the Maduro-stacked Supreme Court, Maikel ...

  • Hurricane Matthew gains strength in the Caribbean, becomes major storm

    Hurricane Matthew gains strength in the Caribbean, becomes major storm

    Sep 30, 2016 05:41 PM EDT

    Hurricane Matthew has been upgraded to a Category 4 storm as it makes its way toward Jamaica, Cuba, and the Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center predicts heavy rain over the weekend in Aruba, Colombia and Venezuela. Meteorologists still do not know if or how the storm will make landfall in ...

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    The '99ers' Share Their Stories

    Aug 06, 2010 02:22 PM EDT

    ... unemployed. Why would we ever want to lose everything we ever gained? Five years ago we were traveling once a year to Las Vegas or Aruba etc. Why would anyone willingly sit around and give all that up to collect a fraction of what you earned? It just doesn't ...

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    Opponents' Arrests Reignite Free Speech Debate in Venezuela

    Mar 29, 2010 10:36 PM EDT

    ... Four days later, Guillermo Zuloaga, the president of Globovision -- Venezuela's main opposition TV channel -- was arrested for comments he made at a meeting in Aruba, including accusing Chavez of ordering troops to shoot on protesters in 2002, which led to an attempted coup. Both men were accused of spreading ...