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LOCAL Tuesday 29 November 2022
Elliott Loonstra receives Perseverance Award in Para-Taekwondo

as distinguished athlete

ORANJESTAD – Recently In a good atmosphere, the
took place the awards cer- organization Joel Films was
emony to organizations recognized for motivating
and individuals with limita- and stimulating the Aru-
tions who are doing good ban youth through differ-
work in Aruba. ent projects. Also, young
adult Elliott Loonstra of Pa-

ra-Taekwondo received an a very good atmosphere. step of the awards.
award for his great interna- The awards are sure to con-
tional performance. tinue motivating our own On the pictures: (1) Model
people, who do go through Caroline Stevens of The
The Perseverance Awards difficulties and obstacles, Pancake House together
are for those who perse- however, continue pushing with Elliott Loonstra and
vere in life. to achieve their goals. Inga Rustveld, representa-
Perseverance Awards tive of Joel Films. (2) Elliott
The ceremony took place thanks each sponsor that Loonstra together with his
at The Pancake House with cooperated to take the first parents.q

Walk for Integrity will take place on 9 December at the National Park Arikok

ORANJESTAD – The minis- for Nature, which will take tegrity. Participation is free
try of Transport, Integrity, place on the 9th of De- and includes a dry-fit T-shirt.
Nature and Senior Affairs is cember.
busy organizing a walk to “Integrity is present in ev-
commemorate the week Participants need to be ery aspect of our lives”, the
of integrity, which will take present at the site at press release indicates. “In-
place from the 5th until the 4:30pm, and the walk itself tegrity applies to nature as
9th of December 2022. will begin at 5pm at the well. It is our duty to respect
FPNA Visitor Center. The and coexist with nature.
In connection with the route will be from the Visi- Let’s honor our commit-
Week of Integrity, through tor Center to the Cunucu ment with integrity, honor
a press release of the min- House and back, which nature and join this walk.”
istry of Integrity the local is a total walk of 3 kilome-
community was informed ters. Registration is already In recent weeks, Bureau In-
that, in collaboration with open on the website www. tegrity Aruba has received
the Aruba National Park integrityweekaruba.org attention in the news due
Foundation, the commu- or through the Facebook to its reactivation. Back in
nity is invited to take part in page of Minister Ursell Ar- October, the government
the Walk for Integrity, Walk ends, of the ministry of In- was looking to fill two im-

portant positions among as a point of contact for
public employees, as ver- the public employee that
trouwenspersoon integrit- suspects a violation of in-
eit (VPI, confidential advi- tegrity has taken place at
sor integrity) and interne work. An IO gives advice
onderzoeker (IO, internal or guidance when carrying
investigator). out investigations on facts
related to a suspicion of a
Integrity in the government violation of integrity, and
departments is extremely in some cases will carry out
important for the wellbe- the investigation on their
ing of our country and our own.
community. To achieve
this in an effective way re- According to the press re-
quires different instruments, lease, both roles will contrib-
with staff needing to com- ute to an integral govern-
plete training and serve as ment apparatus and a safe
a VPI or IO. A VPI will serve working environment.q