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CLASSIFIED Monday 7 May 2018
Families hoping for justice in dOCTOR ON dUTY
Oranjestad
Dr. Vogel
Tel. 583 3777
suit over 1968 mine disaster Special Of The Week San Nicolas

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But others are looking to a Caribbean Speed Printers N.V. Women in Difficulties
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On Wednesday, the fami- RBC Royal Bank Acc. #1330772 Maria Tel. 585 5513
lies will ask the 4th U.S. Cir- In this Nov. 20, 1968, file photo, three miners are lifted by a Assistant Director San Nicolas
cuit Court of Appeals to bucket from the burning Mountaineer Coal Co. No. 9 mine near Xiomara Arends San Nicolas Tel. 584 5712
reinstate a lawsuit they Farmington, W.Va.
filed in 2014. A judge ruled Editor in Chief
the lawsuit was filed too pany, Consolidation Coal, sive methane gas from Linda Reijnders INFORMATION 118
late, but the families argue was responsible. They ac- the mine was disabled the (linda.reijnders@cspnv.com) TAXI-TAS 587-5900
588-0035
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that the case should be al- cuse the company of night of the explosion. The Editor TAXI D.T.S. 587-2300
lowed to move forward be- fraudulently concealing alarm was supposed to SERVICE AUA 583-3232
cause they claim the min- key information that would shut off power to the mine Richard Brooks A1 TAXI SERVICES 587-8850
ing company concealed have allowed them to file if the fan stopped, which Sales 280-2828
the cause of the explosion a wrongful death lawsuit would alert the miners to Linda Reijnders CRUISE SHIP
for decades. years earlier. evacuate. (linda.reijnders@cspnv.com)
James Matish, then 14, re- Last year, a federal judge The suit says it wasn't un- Marijke Croes
members saying goodbye threw out their 2014 lawsuit, til 2014 when the families Mary-Ann Oduber
to his father, Frank, the saying the "suit, brought for- learned that the mine's Classifieds
same way he always did ty-six years after the explo- chief electrician had dis- May 8
Rachelle Danje
before his Dad left to work sion, is late by more than abled the fan. It alleges (rachelle.danje@cspnv.com) Celebrity Equinox
the "cateye shift" — mid- forty-four years." that the company had April 9
night to 8 a.m. — on Nov. According to the lawsuit, concealed the electrician's Distribution and Collection Monarch
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don't work too hard and be the families learned about the two-year limitation pe- Avianca 588-0059
careful." a 1970 memo by an in- riod on wrongful-death Social / Website Aruba Airlines 583-8300
Matish remembers his fa- vestigator who wrote that cases should be extend- Jeancarlo Trinidad Jet Blue 588-2244
ther's reply — "See you to- an alarm on a ventilation ed based on the families' Surinam 582-7896
morrow" — and then, the fan used to flush explo- claims.q Weststraat 22 Venezolana 583-7674
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