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local Tuesday 31 January 2023
Third edition of Baseball in Paradise to take place in October

ORANJESTAD – Last Thurs- athletes.
day, minister of Sport, Endy
Croes met with Mr. Shurty Minister Croes indicated
Tremus, organizer of the that until now, there are
successful youth champi- 44 teams that have regis-
onship Baseball in Para- tered, of which 14 are from
dise. The third edition of Aruba, one from Canada,
this championship will take 11 from Curaçao, 6 from
place in October. the Dominican Republic, 7
from the Netherlands and 4
The date for the champi- from Mexico.
onship has been set to 9th-
14th of October 2023. It will The organizers are check-
be played in four different ing for the possibility to
categories: Under-12, U14, bring some umpires from
U16, and U19 years. abroad. There will also be
an expert in Aruba to give
On the 8th of October there a workshop on online scor-
will be an Open Showcase, ing.
where 25 international
scouts, mainly from the Aside from the parks that
United States, will be pres- Mr. Tremus is negotiating to
ent in Aruba. The young use – Joe Laveist Sport Park, those in charge of Flatstone site, “Baseball in Paradise emies, as well as new teams
people who register for this Pos Chiquito Ballpark and Ballpark. is an international youth put together especially for
event will be seen by the Compleho Deportivo Cris- baseball tournament that participation in our tourna-
scouts. At the end of the mo Angela y Nadi Croes – To conclude, minister Croes is held annually in the An- ment! Teams can enroll in
competition, the scouts will the organization Baseball emphasizes that it was tilles. This non-profit tourna- the age classes U12, U14,
select two teams from all in Paradise are meeting to a good meeting and he ment is a place where kids U16, and U18 (19), with the
the talent they have seen use additional parks during wishes Mr. Trmus and Future from all over the world can minimum player age of 8
that they believe have po- the week of the champi- Stars Baseball Academy a come and play the game years old for the young-
tential. The selected teams onship, among others, the lot of success with the prep- they love, on a little piece est players. Registration is
will play a prospect game park of Duracell, Centro arations for the third edition of paradise! Anyone can done by filling in the regis-
so that they can be seen di Bario Noord, Xander Bo- of Baseball in Paradise. enter Baseball In Paradise! tration form and agreeing
more closely, and this will gaerts Ball Park, Maria Maai This goes for existing teams, to the general terms and
create opportunities for our and they will also meet with According to their web- clubs, and baseball acad- conditions therein.”q

Pedagogical Institute of Aruba (IPA) received visit by Dutch delegation

ORANJESTAD – Recently,
the Pedagogical Institute Leader of the Kibrahacha
of Aruba (IPA) received a project, drs. Marisol Croes
visit from Robbert Dijkgraaf, said that Kibrahacha has a
minister of Education, Cul- positive effect on the col-
ture and Science of the laboration between the
Netherlands, together with institutes and the primary
representatives from the schools.
VNO (Representative of the
Netherlands in Oranjestad). Also present were two
This is in the context of the third-year students of the
Kibrahacha project, which primary education study at
is about “Educating To- IPA, namely Nataly Tobar
gether” between the ABC and Thyara Doornkamp.
islands. The students told about
how they experience the
In Aruba there are various changes that have been
primary schools that work taking place through the
with IPA in this project to Kibrahacha project in a
educate IPA’s students to- very positive way.
gether in practice. One of the changes is
continue contributing to Richardson also elaborat- interested in finding possi- the coupling of theory
The goal of the meeting this positive development. ed on the vision and goal bilities to collaborate and received at IPA and the
was to see how all the dif- for the future for IPA, and see how every side can contents of practice in the
ferent actors are experi- The morning started with a the challenges that come help each other with these same semester.
encing the Kibrahacha presentation by drs. Mari- with it. challenges. He said also
project and at the same lyn Richardson, general that they are exploring the The way Kibrahacha is or-
time meet the Dutch minis- director of IPA. Richardson Minister Dijkgraaf said that possibility of a Royal Grant ganized on the ABC islands
ter of Education. explained the courses that he recognizes the chal- to give opportunity for all – that is, Aruba, Bonaire
IPA offers, the collabora- lenges confronted by the students in the Kingdom and Curaçao – can be
During the meeting, the tion of the institute with oth- community and education of the Netherlands can do an example for the Neth-
possibility was explored on er local and international in Aruba also play a role in their internships in the coun- erlands in their regional
how the Netherlands can institutes and organizations. the Netherlands, and he is tries within the Kingdom. collaboration.q