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LOCAL Saturday 16 July 2022
Focused on the rescue of culture and folklore
Come see the Acoustic Parade of the Chico Harms Foundation

A vibrant organization with For the 23rd and 30th of that not a lot of people
the purpose of comple- July, there will be the Aru- need to be on stage, but
menting and exalting Aru- ban Street Song Festival rather, must present culture
ban culture and folklore (Festival Cantica di Caya and customs of Aruba.
with activities developed Arubano), which started
and guided by volunteers, with various groups inter- On the 2nd of September
is organizing big activities, preting the same song, there will be a Parade with
among them the Big Folk- which after it was decided Lanterns in Brazil. This year
lore Cultural Parade (Gran to make it in the context marks five years that this
Parada Folklore Cultural) of a street song. Currently parade is on the streets,
which will take place in they have nine young chil- and ‘it was well received
september. dren participating who will and it is so pretty, because
sing on the 23rd, and 13 the lanterns in the hours of
Francisco, better known adults who will also be sing- the night are very beauti-
as ‘Chico’ Harms, explains ing on the 30th of July. ful’, according to Harms.
that they are preparing the
Acoustic Parade tomorrow, Leo Harms, who together The big parade itself is an-
the 17th of July, a parade with Marcia Dirks gave in- nounced for the upcoming
which had to be canceled formation regarding the 4th of September, ‘Cultural
for two years because of Cultural Folklore Queen of Folklore of Brazil’. In this pa-
the pandemic. This year Aruba, explained that the rade there will be nine big
it will be a very big event, queen election is planned groups participating, with
where they will not use any for the 20th of August in the five bands and five disco.
speakers or electric instru- children category, and for “It will become a beauti-
ments, but the participants the 27th of august for Cul- ful parade this year, and
will use their own instru- tural Lady (Dama Cultural) seeing the enthusiasm for
ments and they will sing and Great Cultural Lady it, surely it will become
and play instrumental mu- (Gran Dama Cultural). something super beautiful”,
sic. Harms commented.
On the 27th of August will
This parade will start by the be held the show for Dama With all these activities up-
church in Brazil and finish and Gran Dama, and Dirks coming, a call goes out to
at the community center in emphasizes that the focus the community of the town
Brazil, where the celebra- is on the cultural and folk- of Brazil and Aruba in gen- cultural folklore. With this and support our cultural
tions will continue. loric aspects of the clothing eral, to partake in order in mind, the invitation goes folklore.
and presentation. He said to preserve and promote out to watch this parade

Aruba number two in the Caribbean for CFATF evaluation

“An excellent result”

Recently Aruba underwent the that Aruba has an excellent AML/ Thus the excellent result for Aruba CFATF. Afterwards, a group from
evaluation of the Caribbean insti- CFT regimen, which is something in the evaluation comes from the CFATF itself which evaluated Aru-
tute, Caribbean Financial Action of which Aruba can be proud. The big effort of the professionals in the ba came to perform an on-site visit
Task Force (CFATF). Prime minis- prime minister explained that since public, semi-public and private between the 30th of August and
ter of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes the government assumed office sector of Aruba. the 10th of September 2021. After
expressed that she is extremely in 2017, it has been working with this, the process to write up a re-
proud of the work done by agen- a steering group, which is led by Between years 2018 and 2020, a port started. The report was made
cies in the public, semi-public and Wever-Croes together with other National Risk Assessment was car- in concept based on what the as-
private sector in Aruba. professionals who assist the gov- ried out on money laundering and sessment team prepared and was
ernment in this. The focus of the terrorism in Aruba. This is a method sent to Aruba to review. After this
Last Thursday, the government of steering group is on money laun- of the World Bank to evaluate the there was a meeting on the con-
Aruba received the information dering and financing of terrorism. risk of money laundering and fi- tents to address the conclusions of
nancing of terrorism on a national the assessment team, which took
level. This was done with the public place during May and June 2022.
and private sector. Also the Na-
tional Ordinance on the Preven- On the 2nd of June there was a
tion of Money Laundering and plenary meeting via Zoom, and
Terrorist Financing (Landsveror- there the report was approved.
dening voorkoming witwassen en
terrorisme financiering, LWTF) was Result of the Evaluation
changed in 2021. Aruba was number two in the en-
tire Caribbean for the CFATF evalu-
Wever-Croes explains that the ation. Bermuda was number one.
preparations for the evaluation It was noted that various countries
started in 2018 and the evalua- in the Caribbean have difficulty
tion itself should’ve taken place in passing the evaluation, thus the
2020, but this was postponed be- result for Aruba is one that makes
cause of Covid. During this period, everyone proud.
Aruba sent a lot of information to