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Minister Mike de Meza and Deputy Clark Abraham
Exchange thoughts on the
IMPORTANCE of Aruba and
Bonaire having a good
RELATIONSHIP
THE people of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are brothers and do not He explained that Bonaire started investing in eco-
brothers. The cultural and familiar relationship is have political color” energy many years ago and that currently 40 to 60%
very much strong between these countries. that’s why it’s so of their energy is produced by wind energy but that
Aruban Minister of Economic Affairs Mike de Meza important for the island Bonaire wants to make this 100% and combine it with
and Bonaire Deputy of Economic and Financial Affairs representatives to sit wind energy, solar energy and other resources.
Clark Abraham both agree that the tie between the together and to trust
two islands needs to be fortified. each other enough to advice each other on different “Bonaire would love to work with Aruba so we can
aspects and stimulate each other in the cultural area. both become good examples for the other islands and
During a courtesy visit that Deputy Abraham paid to present a complete eco-energy product and conserve
Minister de Meza they discussed numerous common Deputy Abraham mentioned that it is very important nature and if possible explore opportunities to share
interest topics and shared experiences from both to invest in building and maintaining ties between knowledge with their other islands in the region. We
countries that could help the other country develop the islands thus fortifying their relationship. He could even create a knowledge centre to sell to the
or learn from each other. mentioned how happy he is that Minister de Meza region.” Deputy Abraham concluded.
shares his opinion.
Bonaire can learn a lot from Aruba’s economic develop The deputy commented about the Green Aruba
and that could benefit the social-economic life of the conference after his meeting with Minister de Meza.
islands, Minister de Meza commented in a interview He mentioned that the two countries could achieve
held after the meeting. a lot for our region in the eco-energy or sustainable
Minister de Meza emphasized that “Our islands are energy area.
Melvin Dabian
was successful in the San Francisco competition
MELVIN Dabian participated in the 42k run in San watch to make sure he was still on schedule and he
Francisco and concluded with a time of 3 hours and managed to finish the race in the time scheduled.
23 minutes. A tremendous time for his first special
Marathon. The San Francisco Marathon is known for Melvin Dabian ended up in 292nd place out of the
its challenges because it includes the Golden Gate 6025 full marathon participants, in 269th place
Bridge which isn’t easy to run and needs to be passed out of the 3987 participants in the male category,
twice. and in 41st place out of the 258 participants in the
age 40-44 category. Melvin Dabian is extremely
When Melvin Dabian arrived in San Francisco he satisfied with the results and ecstatically happy
encountered a really cold weather, the weather was with his performance. He mentioned that it was an
so cold that it affected him during his first days of unforgettable experience.
training. To survive the cold Melvin had to buy a cap,
gloves and wear long sleeves especially since the race Melvin Dabian thanks god, the entire I-Run Aruba
starts at 05:30am. team and a few others that played an important role
in his achievement, for example Silvienne Valdez and
The San Francisco race was completely sold out and his personal trainer Juan Valdez from Triple’s Fitness
had more than 25.000 runners from all around the Centre, his entire family that accompanied him to San
world. At the starting line Melvin was in the second Francisco, his big fan, his siblings that have supported
wave right behind Pro’s/ Elite runners from all around him throughout all of this and his persona coaches
the world. The race went very well. The idea was to Beto Maduro and Jovita Maduro from Aruba Malmok
make an easy start and finish it strong. Runner.
As the race went on Melvin Dabian felt like he
mastered the hills well and recovered quickly after Melvin Dabian will be staying in San Francisco to
passing them. Melvin Dabian constantly checked his enjoy his family vacation for one more week.
ARUBA TRAVELLER - Tuesday, July 28 2015 9LOCAL
