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local Tuesday 20 december 2022
Fundacion Lanta Papiamento putting 330 professionals in the hotel industry

spotlight on local authors received Supercharged Service
Training Program 2022 certificate

ORANJESTAD – Recently,
FLP, a foundation dedicat-
ed to the promotion and
elevation of our national
language Papiamento, to-
gether with the National
Library of Aruba put a spot-
light on our local authors
and their publications. Dur-
ing the event Tertulia Lit-
erario (Literary Gathering)
2022 that took place this
month at the National Li-
brary in San Nicolas, there
was an explosion of litera-
ture that attracted a big
crowd. the event there were two
special presentations, by The foundation adds that
The authors who were pre- Ini Statia who presented there are more productions
sented and received rec- and baptized her poetry that also need attention,
ognition were: collection “In the name of namely song lyrics in Papia-
Olga Buckley, Brandon Bu- love” in a very original way. mento which if they are of
los, Evert Bongers, Desiree The other presentation was good quality, fall into the
Correa, Richard A. Frank, by Tyrone Wong, who pre- category of poetry.
Lenie Henttu-Jeandor, Ari- sented his three-volume What is very interesting is
ana Koolman, Eusebio publication: The Village in that, while walking in the
Petrona, Ini Statia, Ruthy San Nicolas, Aruba: Social supermarket, searching
Vrieswijk-Bergen, Arlene History during the 20th and for gifts in other stores and
M. Wever, Letitia Wever, 21st Centuries. online, the foundation has
Oswald Wever and Tyrone noticed that more and
Wong, without forgetting FLP thanks the authors, re- more local people are us-
the National Library itself, searchers and everyone ing Papiamento in their
which published three who contributed to this im- products. A development
books on its own. portant yield. Congratula- which they note with joy.
tions on the publications. The foundation noted cof-
What is interesting is that fee, rum, soaps, creams
these authors provided a However, FLP has noticed and fragrances, cards, sta-
wide variety of genre and that there is little promo- tionery with Papiamento
language. There are books tion of these books on the text, and food products, all
for children and adults, fic- market. Perhaps there are with names in Papiamento.
tion and non-fiction; name- more books and stories that
ly three children’s books, came out but the founda- The foundation notes that
two young adult novels, tion is not aware of them. this should be applauded
three adult novels, one The foundation is commit- and they hope that more
short story, four poetry col- ted to helping in this re- people will find inspiration
lections, and five non-fic- gard. With the Tertulia Liter- to use our beautiful lan-
tion works about different ario, which they have been guate Papiamento one ORANJESTAD – Last week, minister of Education and
subjects. organizing for a few years, way or another. “A lan- Sport, Mr. Endy Croes together with his colleague minis-
they are trying to bring guage is a jewel, a very ter of Health and Tourism, Mr. Dangui Oduber were pres-
Most of these are in Papia- publicity to Aruba’s litera- important cultural heri- ent at a ceremony during which 330 employees in the
mento and there is also one ture. And they propose to tage, something beautiful hotel industry received their certificate for having taken
work in Dutch and four in begin a custom of gifting that we must protect, de- part in the Supercharged Service Training Program 2022.
English, meaning there was books to people, for exam- velop and present to the
one for every taste. During ple, for Christmas this year! world.”q The program was organized by Aruba Time Share Associ-
ation (ATSA) and Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association
(CHTA) Education Foundation, and took place at the
Ballroom of the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino.

Employees from different companies and organizations
took part in the fourteen days of the program.

Minister Endy Croes gave a speech for the occasion,
during which he congratulated the 330 professionals
who successfully completed the program, and now can
continue promoting Aruba and giving a better service to
our guests. The minister also congratulated ATSA, Aruba
Tourism Authority, CHTA Education Foundation and part-
ners from different organizations that worked together
with each other to make this program possible.q