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  Aruba
Aruba is an island in the Caribbean Sea, just a short distance north of the Venezuelan Paraguaná Peninsula[?], and it forms a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles on January 1, 1986 and became a separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Aruba is a flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches.
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 Aruba | Aruba Vacations | Aruba Hotels | Aruba Weather
Aruba is an island along the Caribbean Sea, situated north of Paraguana Peninsula, Falcon State and Venezuela.
The island of Aruba was discovered in 1499 during a Spanish expedition, and was eventually seized by the Dutch in 1636.
Aruba maintains its own laws, constitution, government and currency but relies on the Kingdom of the Netherlands for national defense, citizenship, foreign affairs and extraditions.
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Aruba is an island in the 7 Caribbean Sea, just 0 a short distance north 7 of the Venezuelan Paraguaná 6 Peninsula, and it 2 forms a part 7 of the Kingdom of 5 the Netherlands.
Aruba seceded from 2 the Netherlands Antilles 2 on January 1, 7 1986 and became 2 a separate, autonomous member 8 of the Kingdom of 2 the Netherlands.
Aruba is a flat, riverless island 8 renowned for its 2 white sand beaches.
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 Aruba Resource Page - arruba
Aruba is a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but maintains full control over its own affairs except for issues dealing with national defence, citizenship, foreign affairs, and extradition.
Aruba is a generally flat, riverless island renowned for its white sand beaches.
Aruba enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean region, with low poverty and unemployment rates.
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 Aruba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Oil processing is the dominant industry in Aruba, despite the expansion of the tourism sector.
Deficit spending has been a staple in Aruba's history and modestly high inflation has been present as well, although recent efforts at tightening monetary policy may correct this.
Queen Beatrix International Airport, located near Oranjestad, Aruba, currently serves the whole island of Aruba.
www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/aruba.html   (613 words)

  
 Aruba Facts - Community Matters - Local Politics
During the Spanish/French/English expansion waves, Aruba became Spanish, French and English for the time these privateers/pirates used Aruba as a safehaven as well as a bunker for fresh water and supplies.
As Aruba's economy was boosted by the establishment of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Exxon), the cry for independence (read "Status Aparte") became more and more vivid.
Today, Aruba can look back and be thankful that 60 years ago the A.V.P. started off a cause that allows our island, through substantial economic reforms of the P.P.A. and the very persistant struggle of the M.E.P., to be proudly recognized as a highly successful, well-developed and tourism-oriented island economy within the Royal Dutch Kingdom.
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 Aruba - travel guide, holidays in Aruba -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Aruba is a Caribbean island off the coast of Central America and north of Venezuela.
Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire and Curacao, the ABC-Islands)in 1986 and became a separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Aruba's small labor force and low unemployment rate have led to a large number of unfilled job vacancies, despite sharp rises in wage rates in recent years.
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 Caribbean Net News: Continuing correspondence from readers on the situation in Aruba
It amazes me that in Aruba you can detain a person for 116 days, however, in this case the people with her and the ones that knew the most of where she was and who she was with were let go within hours of her disappearance.
Aruba should be boycotted — the very idea that the poor parents of the missing girl were able to identify the 3 boys long before the police did.
I admonish you though, to compare the crime rate/unsolved cases of the entire country of Aruba to the crime rate/unsolved cases of your neighboring largest city and tell me whether this “well-reared, naïve young lady” who “would not do anything rash” would be safer had she made the same choices in your locale.
www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/06/22/correspondence.shtml   (8860 words)

  
 Constitution of Aruba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aruba's Constitution Day: Aruba's State Constitution was unanimously approved by all political parties represented in Aruba's Parliament on August 9, 1985, and was proclaimed in the "Afkondigingsblad van Aruba, No.26, 1985", on August 19, 1985.
Aruba's State Constitution approved unanimously on August 9, 1985, was proclaimed in the Dutch language on August 19, and although its translation in Papiamento, Aruba's National language, was already completed in 1985, it still has not been proclaimed in Papiamento.
Aruba and the other two member states are not fully independent -- Aruba's relation within the 'Kingdom of the Netherlands', based on the self determination referendum held in 1977, the Agreement proclaimed in 1983, the Regulation for the Governor of Aruba and its Constitution in force since August 1985, is more like a commonwealth relationship.
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 Aruba's Government Detailed Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On January 1, 1986 Aruba became a separate entity within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, an event of historical proportions.
As a result of this agreement, Aruba affairs, formerly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government of the Netherlands Antilles, (aviation, customs, immigration, communications and other internal and external matters) are now handled autonomously by Aruba.
Aruba has its own constitution predicated on western democratic principles, with a Governor to form a 7-member Council of Ministers vested with executive powers and headed by a Prime Minister.
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 Aruba Resource Page - arroba
Aruba seceded from the como sacar la pre o da arroba de boi arroba Netherlands Antilles on January 1, 1986, and became a separate, self-governing member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
On the east are Curaçao and Bonaire,two island territories which form the southwest part of the Netherlands Antilles; Aruba and these simbolo arroba two Netherlands Antilles islands are also known as the ABC islands.
Carnival is usually held from the beginning of January until the end of February, with a large parade on law of arruba the final Sunday of the festivities.
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 Www Aruba
''Main article: Politics of Aruba'' Head of state is the ruling monarch of the Netherlands, who is represented in Aruba by a governor, appointed for a six-year term.
Its design features a light blue colour as a base (symbolising the bright blue skies and waters found in Aruba), with two parallel yellow stripes in the bottom half of the flag, and a four-pointed red star with a white fringe (symbolising the island itself) in the upper left corner (hoist side).
In 1636 Aruba was acquired by the Dutch and remained under their control for nearly two centuries.
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 Politics of Aruba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aruba but it has full autonomy on most matters.
Aruba's judicial system, which has mainly been derived from the Dutch system, operates independently of the legislature and the executive.
Aruba has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful.
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 CNN.com - Two Aruba suspects released - Jul 5, 2005
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN) -- Two brothers held nearly a month as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were released Monday, but a judge ordered a third youth to remain in police custody, court officials said.
Aruba, an island off Venezuela, is a self-governing part of the Netherlands.
Aruba's chief prosecutor, Karin Janssen, said the elder Van Der Sloot and his wife, Anita, interfered in the case by asking one of their son's friends what he had told authorities when they questioned him.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/07/04/aruba.missing/index.html   (872 words)

  
 Aruba - Caribbean Culture
The first people of Aruba were the Caquetios Indians from the Arawak tribe, who inhabited the island perhaps 4000 years ago.
In 1636, Aruba was conquered and claimed by the Dutch.
Aruba enjoys the highest standard of living among the Caribbean islands, with low poverty and unemployment rates.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24822.asp   (267 words)

  
 CNN.com - DJ admits false tale about missing teen - Jun 30, 2005
When she disappeared, the 18 year old was celebrating her high school graduation in Aruba with about 100 classmates and several parent chaperones from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.
Janssen said authorities in Aruba are working Holloway's disappearance as a missing person's case with the possibility of murder, although they have not definitively concluded that the teen is dead.
Aruba on Thursday was awaiting the deployment of another contingent of Dutch Marines to assist with the search for Holloway.
www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/06/30/aruba.missing/index.html   (920 words)

  
 Blogging To Aruba September 06 Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The U.S. government has forward operating locations (FOL), one of which is Aruba, which supports, U.S. military airplanes and occasionally ships that are fighting drug trafficking in the region.
Basing the planes in Aruba is usefull for detecting drug trafficking in that the U.S. is no longer allowed to enter Venezuelan airspace.
In reading the article you will see that besides the ongoing rhetoric, Chávez felt that a U.S. military war game earlier this year, simulated an invasion upon Venezuela and he believes "one of the launching points for this simulated attack was an FOL near the target".
www.arubabound.com /blog/blog_sept06.htm   (1661 words)

  
 3 held in missing U.S. teen case in Aruba - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
She refused to name them, but authorities previously described the three as students -- two Surinamese brothers and the son of a Dutch justice official studying to be a judge.
The Dutch detainee, a student at the Aruba International School, left his home in a middle-class neighborhood of Oranjestad yesterday with his head covered in a blue-and-green striped towel.
Police identified the Surinamese brothers only as Satish and Deepak K. Vivian van der Biezan, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, said the Dutch detainee was 17 and that the Surinamese brothers were 18 and 21.
www.washtimes.com /national/20050609-114813-6613r.htm   (397 words)

  
 Aruba: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
Aruba, an island slightly larger than Washington, DC, lies 18 mi (28.9 km) off the coast of Venezuela in the southern Caribbean.
The Netherlands controls Aruba's defense and foreign affairs, but all internal affairs are handled by an island government directing its own civil service, judiciary, revenue, and currency.
Aruba - Aruba, island, autonomous part of the Netherlands (2005 est.
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 History of Aruba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
According to one tradition, he christened the place Oro Hubo meaning there was gold there, but the name Aruba seems to have derived instead from the Arawak Indian word oibubai which means guide.With the arrival of the Spanish many of the Indian population were enslaved and relocated to Hispañola to work in mines.
Dutch military personnel were sent to maintain Aruba, but contrary to their living conditions under their previous masters, the Indians were allowed to remain free.
At one time Aruba satisfied a considerable proportion of world demand for this plant’s gel - used for pharmaceutical purposes and well-known for its capacity to alleviate sunburn pain, gold supplies dwindled and the once-booming mining industry became unprofitable resulting in all operations ceasing in 1916.
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 Results for Aruba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Grapefield is situated on the eastern point of Aruba, near Seroe Colorado.
Aruba consists of volcanic rock on which several layers of coral were...
Aruba - Der letzte Schrei in der Karibik.
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 War? What war? - Salon
Beyond the calls to war and vengeance, Americans were told that this was a transforming moment, an epiphany.
It was a Great Awakening, not just a political but a spiritual watershed.
Analysts from across the political spectrum argued that the terror attacks, like a vast memento mori, were a manifestation of death and evil that would forever change our superficial, sensation-addled culture.
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 ipedia.com: Aruba Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Aruban guilder has a fixed exchange rate with the United States dollar of 1.78:1.
The holiday of Carnival is an important one in Aruba, as it is in many Caribbean and Latin American countries.
Carnival is usually held from the beginning of January until the end of February, with a large parade on the final Sunday of the festivities.
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 Aruba Internet Usage and Telecommunications Reports
Aruba has 96 sq km (37 square miles) - Population Density is 137 persons per sq km.
This Paul Budde report provides an overview of the Caribbean’s telecom sector accompanied by relevant statistics and a brief profile of the major players.
Aruba is an associated territory of the EU.
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 more info on aruba - arroba - arubba
Wireless networking specialist Aruba Networks Inc plans to raise $100m in an IPO on Nasdaq that it hopes will give it the financial muscle to take on competitors Cisco Systems, and Symbol Technologies, which is to be acquired by Motorola.
As an extra bonus here are the top searched terms over the past month for aruba.
Now you can see what everyone else is searching for in regards to aruba.
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 Aruba — Infoplease.com
Aruba is finding new prosperity on two fronts: tourism, oil.
A standout island: Distinctive Aruba touts its beauty, friendliness and safety.
Aruba enjoys another great year; island reports its sixth consecutive year of record-setting arrivals.
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 Politics in Alabama
three-quarters of Alabama residents back the governor’s call for a travel boycott of Aruba that was spurred the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, a new statewide survey suggests.
I asked 6 people I knew directly that also knew about this case (some were close to it) and all 6 said they would go to Aruba.
Then again, I don’t know if most people in Alabama vacation in Aruba to begin with, so I guess it wouldn’t be hard for them to “boycott” it.
www.politicsinalabama.com /?p=210   (303 words)

  
 Politics of Aruba Information
Jurisdiction, including appeal, lies with the Common Court of Justice of Aruba and the Supreme Court of Justice in the Netherlands.
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