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local Thursday 22 sepTember 2022

Aruba Port Development N.V. in charge of

Port City project, was established this week

ORANJESTAD – This week area became available Income generated from
the establishment of Aru- when the quay was moved the private sector, APA will
ba Port Development NV to Barcadera. invest back into infrastruc-
was established. Minister of ture, roads, landscaping,
Public Health and Tourism, Minister Oduber made it boardwalk, public parks
Mr. Dangui Oduber; direc- known that he has been and maintenance during a
tor of Aruba Ports Authority working closely with APA period of 60 years.
NV, Mr. Figaroa; and presi- since 2017 in order to carry ter a lot of preparation, the NV will be the company in
dent of the Supervisory out all the necessary work Minister Oduber said that company Aruba Port De- charge of managing the
Board, Mr. Dubero were and preparations to realize this is the financial model velopment NV was estab- entire process of public ten-
present for the occasion. the project. of Port City, and naturally lished at a notary together der which will begin soon.
to manage this important with the director of APA Right now, all the work can
Aruba Port Development According to a press re- project, a new company and the president of the continue according to
NV will be in charge of lease, the Port City Project needed to be established. Supervisory Board. plan, so that the Port City
managing the entirety of is very ambitious and great This was a great moment project can begin in the
the Port City project. for Aruba, and will gener- for Aruba when finally, af- Aruba Port Development second quarter of 2023.q
ate many jobs during a pe-
As was previously reported, riod of 15 years. It will also
the government of Aruba generate income for APA
and Aruba Ports Authority and the Government, and
(APA) recently held the of- will create an economic
ficial launch of the Port City spinoff for the country of
project. This is to develop Aruba.
the entire area where be- It is a project that has an
fore the container quay investment of 1 billion flo-
was in Oranjestad. This rins from the private sector.

Talks and awareness contributing to reducing teenage pregnancy in Aruba

ORANJESTAD – Two years which was below 100, clos- are more open and more
ago, we reported that there ing the year at 45. The rea- willing to ask for help cur-
were around 72 cases of son why the numbers are rently.
teenage pregnancy each low is also related to the In 2020, cases of teenage
year. Right now, this has fact that there was no Car- pregnancy were already
reduced, closing the year nival that year – and nine considerably declining
2021 with 45 cases. months after, in October/ comparing to before. This
November, the numbers was in great part because
Talks, and especially the were also low. During the of awareness and preven-
use of visual material that year there weren’t a lot tion campaigns, which
children and youths can of activities compared to help keep the cases low
see and practice regard- the years before, and this among our kids and teens
ing the reality that they played a role in reducing between 12 and 19 years
could confront if they get the amount of teenage old.
pregnant very young, is pregnancies recently.
being extremely helpful There can be complicated play a big role in helping old already began experi-
to make our children and “We are very happy with cases on which intensive the children better under- encing the consequences
youths more aware of their this, but aside from this, we work needs to be done, stand the reality of their de- of pregnancy. Right now,
actions. evaluate the entire year but compared to previ- cisions and acts. “We focus seeing the age that the
and we notice what came ous years, when kids were more on the consequenc- kids begin being sexually
Mrs. Monique Giel Labad, additionally that kids are busy using various things es”, she said. active, it can be noted that
in charge of teenage busy with. But they’re still to induce an abortion; this the age began increasing,
pregnancy at Wit Gele looking for help and ask- has also reduced consider- The main reason why a girl which is a very positive de-
Kruis, explains that the re- ing questions”, according ably, according to Labad. gets an unplanned preg- velopment. Older kids are
sults of 2021 are very posi- to Labad. This is something The talks that they give at nancy is the sexual act. If more aware, they are bet-
tive regarding the number that is expanding, she says, schools, the explanations of we look a few years back, ter inform and seek more
of teenage pregnancies in the sense that the kids the consequences, these kids of around 11 or 12 years advice.q