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CABINET NOTES:

Cabinet has NOT agreed to lift the ban on hunting of whales and is not aware of any statement which suggests otherwise.

CABINET was referring to this report in the international press:

A resolution submitted by pro-whaling countries including Antigua and Barbuda has sought to reopen a formal debate on commercial whaling.

The 40-year ban could be overturned after the proposal was submitted at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Portorož, Slovenia.

The 88 member countries are expected to take a vote on Tuesday on the said resolution.

This comes after the country has also co-sponsored a resolution with Cambodia, Guinea and the Gambia which argues how fishing practices could contribute to food security and address poverty, said a report by the Guardian.

The report also mentions wildlife protection organisations like OceanCare and HumaneSociety have said that these resolutions threaten the progress made by the IWC.

The OceanCare director of international relations, Nicolas Entrup, has dismissed the idea of “sustainable whaling” calling it “ridiculous”.

“Instead of losing precious time with decade-old debates about fabricated scenarios like ‘sustainable whaling’ and false solutions to food security, the IWC should urgently take up the real pressing issues: climate change and plastic pollution,” said Entrup. According to the media report, commercial whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries had nearly brought the mammals to the brink of extinction.

“People assume the whaling ban, which has saved the lives of hundreds and thousands of cetaceans, is done and dusted. But the ban is in jeopardy as long as there are nations in the IWC who will vote to return to whaling,” said Wendy Higgins, director of international media at Humane Society International.

This comes four years after a similar proposal of lifting the ban on commercial whaling by Japan was rejected by the IWC. Tokyo at the time had also said how whaling could be done sustainably.

At the time, IWC reportedly reiterated its role as a conservation-focused organisation and said that the threats to whales are not just limited to hunting but also include ship strikes, climate crisis and fishing bycatch.

Subsequently, Japan left the IWC and started commercial whaling again since it was no longer bound to comply with its restrictions.

This comes amid the IWC facing financial difficulties following Japan’s exit, the Covid pandemic, and the Global economic crisis, said the report.

At least a quarter of the 88 member countries have not paid their annual dues.

On Monday, the commission also altered the rules that ban countries in arrears from voting acknowledging how the pandemic has disproportionately affected developing countries.

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Parlamentario Hendrik Tevreden a confirma

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Parlamento ta preparando pa trata presupuesto y esaki ta trece cu n’e un gran trabao. Di bishita na departamentonan te cu reunionnan cu directornan y controla e presupuesto riba su mes. Nos fraccion a manda riba 400 pregunta pa Gobierno caba den e tempo cu a worde stipula pa haci esaki y awor ta sigui cu tramitenan practico pa por keda cla prome cu e reunionnan worde poni riba agenda.

   Simultaneamente bo ta haya otro topiconan importante di nos pais cu tin cu worde atendi y semper nos ta haci e maximo esfuerso pa atende cu tur lo mihor den nos abilidad.

   Un di e topiconan cu ta riba nos agenda aworaki ta e recibonan halto di utilidad cu a sali ultimo y tambe e topico di molina di biento. Manera ta conoci hopi ciudadano a haya nan ultimo recibo di coriente na un suma halto. Tin hopi ponencia cu ta bay rond pa splica e motibo patras di e aumento, por ehempel cu a tuma midi na e meter laat.

   Otro ponencianan ta cu solamente e meter nan bieu a worde afecta cu e aumento y no esunnan cu tin meter digital of cu e uso den e dianan calor tabata mas halto. Asina tin diferente teoria mas cu a worde presenta, pero como presidente di comision fiho di entidadnan gubernamental mi a dicidi di invita e entidadnan Utilities Aruba N.V., WEB Aruba NV, y NV Elmar pa un reunion pa asina nan por duna e comision un splicacion concreto ariba kico ta e motibonan di e aumento y si acaso tin algun cos cu no a bay bon, con ta bay drecha esaki.

   Aruba ta saliendo di e crisis y realidad ta cu ainda tin hende of famia cu ainda financieramente no a recupera completamente. Pesey nos kier vigila e subida aki y a invita e entidadnan pa debate riba e topico aki. Nos kier pa evita cu gastonan ta multiplica sin splicacion y cu ta afecta famianan di e forma aki. Nos ta consciente cu esunnan cu usa mas tin di paga mas, pero cu si bo uso a keda similar e no tin rason pa paga mas.

   Pa loke ta molinanan di biento, tambe nos lo atende mes momento cu e instancianan concerni. Nos a dicidi pa atende tambe cu VWI mirando cu nan kier e oportunidad pa expresa nan preocupacionnan riba e desaroyo aki. Parlamento ta e lugar unda cu tur e puntonan aki tin di worde atendi y di mi banda, como presidente di e comision fiho di entidadnan gubernamental, mi lo kier scuchanan tambe. E fecha pa e reunion cu VWI lo worde haci conoci e simannan nos dilanti. Pero pa loke ta trata e asunto di recibonan halto di coriente lo worde atendi dia 20 di october.

   E problema di energia a bira un topico mundial despues di e guera entre Ukraina y Rusia, pesey Aruba tin di acelera su plan pa mas molina di biento, parke solar y gas natural enbes di solamente Heavy Fuel Oil, pa asina brinda un stabilidad den prijs di energia y asta un rebaho den futuro cercano. Aruba por logra esaki, mirando cu WEB Aruba N.V. tin e capacidad tecnologico y financiero pa por cumpli cu e meta. Loke nos tur kier evita ta cu lo tin mas tardansa y cu lo pone cu pueblo tin di paga un suma halto na utilidad en espera di e transicion aki pa un miho prijs di utilidad pa pais Aruba.

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Turismo na Aruba no mester di mas shock turbulencia mundial

Merca ta man na cabez cu e realidad inhumano di Nicolas
Hulanda ta na guera cu Rusia y no por causa invasion Aruba 

ORANJESTAD(AAN)- Cu Statuut ta duna Reino Hulandes e responsabilidad riba relacionnan cu otro pais na mundo, ta algo cu ta mara na e posicion estatal di Aruba como pais den Reino Hulandes.

Por cierto e areglo cu Reino ta atende cu relacionnan cu exterior, ta algo aceptabel si tene na consideracion kico e pakete di Relacionnan cu Exterior ta encera pa tanto e paisnan como e Ciudadano Hulandes na cualkier parti di e reino.

Ora papia di Reino Hulandes, ta papia di un entidad estatal, cu tin un Conseho di Ministro cu ta forma dor di gobernantenan Hulandes y un representante di e Gobierno eligi na otro paisnan den Reino, manera Aruba.

E gobernantenan Hulandes, cu ta actua na nomber di e Pueblo di Aruba como ciudadano di Reino Hulandes, tin e deber sagrado di defende e bienestar di e Arubiano y e integridad nacional di Aruba como parti di Reino.

Un punto cu sigur ta bini dilanti ta, cu Reino Hulandes conoce un Gobierno di Reino, pero no conoce un Parlamento di Reino.

E representacion directo di votador di henter Pueblo Hulandes, pues Pueblo di Reino Hulandes, pa hopi hende, no ta honra e concepto democratico mas profundo cu ta mara na democracia.

E berdad mester wordo papia pa atende cu e situacion actual, cu ta indica con Hulanda ta hiba combersacion cu Venezuela, cu tin un porta cera cu Aruba despues cu Nicolas Maduro a dicidi cu e ta cera frontera entre e dos paisnan.

Ta uno di e poco, si no ta unico decision di Nicolas Maduro cu nos ta aplaudi pasobra esaki a evita cu cierto tentaculo a alcansa Aruba tambe den un situacion dictatorial Comunista na Venezuela.

Un decision cu tambe ta evita cu awe e aliadonan di Putin cu ta reuni y ta forma un parti importante di habitantenan di Venezuela nobo bou e mando Comunista di Nicolas Maduro, por trapa riba suela di Aruba oficialmente.

Na e momentonan aki, Venezuela ta sostene Putin y ta sostene e paisnan cu ta yuda Putin destrui bida inocente na Ukraine den un confrontacion cu por resulta den un Guera Mundial.

E ultimo dianan, cu prueba DIARIO a mustra con aliadonan di Putin, cu ta entrega Putin armanan pa mata ciudadanonan di Ukraine, ta e forsa economico y social di Venezuela, cu nan ta habita mientras Venezolanonan mes ta huy di nan pais.

Aruba den e situacion actual, pa defende bienestar di e nacion y di e Pueblo di Aruba, hamas por habri porta pa Nicolas Maduro.

Hulanda no por bay contra e bienestar di e Arubiano y mester respeta e pensamento general y sigur e bienestar di e Arubiano, manera Statuut ta exigi y no por papia di apertura di frontera cu e Gobierno di Nicolas Maduro, cu a comberti Venezuela den partner directo di Putin.

Habri porta pa Nicolas Maduro, cu a menasa cu Aruba ta di Venezuela, ta nifica habri porta pa Putin.

Di kico Gobierno Hulandes cu ta parti di NATO y Union Europeo, cu ta enemigo di Putin, ta papia cu Nicolas Maduro ora reuni riba e posibel apertura di frontera entre Venezuela y Aruba?

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Outgoing Police Commissioner Milton Desir approved Saturday’s Onyx concert at the Daren Sammy cricket stadium at Beausejour, Gros Islet, where the appearance on the stage of a police officer with an open-carry firearm created a public backlash.

“In the final analysis, the Onyx show was approved by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Milton Desir,” Assistant Commissioner of Police George Nicholas told a news conference on Wednesday.

Nicholas, responsible for security at the show, disclosed that the Commissioner’s office approved a list of police officers.

He said he was aware of the issue regarding the officer on stage with a firearm.

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But he explained that the gun-toting cop was not on the approved list signed by the Police Commissioner.

“When the matter was brought to my attention I spoke with the officer and had him to conceal himself so that he would not be seen in plain view by the patrons,” Nicholas told reporters.

However, he said by then, the damage was already done.

ACP Nicholas told the news conference that since the incident, the Police Commissioner called for an investigation which is currently ongoing, into all the circumstances relating to the incident.

In addition, he was aware of two contradictory letters in the public domain.

One of the letters did not approve Onyx concert, while the other indicated the opposite.

According to Nicholas, it is not unusual for a decision to change in such matters.

And he said the Police Commissioner gave approval, satisfied that the event met all the required conditions.

“I think the bigger issue is that the letters got circulated in the public domain and that is a matter that the office of the Commissioner of Police has promised to handle,” he revealed.

Nicholas said when an application reaches the Commissioner’s office for event approval, the promoters would have started the process long before.

In this regard, he said before reaching the Commissioner’s office the Onyx show would have had to, among other things, obtain a work permit from the Labour Department for foreign artistes, a health permit for food preparation, approval from the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) for holding a mass crowd event and Fire Department permission to hold the event in respect of the safety of patrons.

Nicholas indicated that once the various agencies, including the Solid Waste Management Authority, gave their nod, the application would go before the office of the Police Commissioner for approval.

“All that would be required from the Commissioner’s Office as it relates to other documents is the attachment of the list of officers who would be providing security for the show,” he stated.

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