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local Thursday 5 January 2023
Aruba welcomed the first baby of the

year 2023: Marvick Mauricio Irausquin

ORANJESTAD – Exactly at Marvick Mauricio Irausquin, be extremely happy that
3:30pm the first baby of was welcomed. baby Marvick is healthy,
the year 2023 was born at and thank Dr. Moreta, Dr.
the Horacio Oduber Hos- With happiness, his mother Arends and the entire team
pital (HOH). A moment of Yoryina Brown and father of the operation room and
happiness and celebration Marvin Irausquin held their the department of mater-
for Aruba and the team at baby for the first time. This nity at the HOH for guid-
HOH on the first day of Jan- is their first child, and they ing the entire process and
uary 2023. named him Marvick Mau- giving them the necessary
ricio. Baby Marvick was support.
It is a tradicion for Aruba to born after gynecologist Dr.
be pending to know who Daphne Moreta performed They thank Frasa Trading,
will be the first baby for the a C-section in the opera- Compra Trading and Swift
New Year, and for 2023 it is tion room. Afterwards, pe- Distributions for the differ-
a baby boy. From the stroke diatrician Dr. Eric Arends ent gifts and donations
of midnight, the entire per- did the checkup, and now made to the baby of the
sonnel of the department mom and dad have their year 2023.
of Maternity were on alert, cute baby in their arms.
but no mothers entered Baby Marvick weighed Up until late in the after-
the hospital until after noon 3020 gram and has a length noon, no other babies
on the 1st of January 2023. of 50cm. were born, so it was a
It was exactly at 3:30pm calm day at the maternity
that the baby of the year, Mom and dad are said to department.q

Aruba movie, Blackout winner

at NIIFF 2022

ORANJESTAD – The movie by local producer Angel Soto, Blackout, closed the year 2022
with another prestigious award.

During the Northeast International India Film Festival (NIIFF) 2022, the movie Blackout
won the Best Feature Film award in 2022.

The movie had its opening in september 2022. The story is about a reporter, Juancho,
who tries to alert local authorities that Aruba was about to be attacked by the Ger-
mans. No one believed him.

NIIFF Best Feature Film award was the second award that Blackout has received. In
India, Blackout also won the Best International Film award during the International Lake
City Film Festival in 2022.

Aruba can be proud of the actors, producer and everyone who worked to make Black-
out possible. Aruba might be small in size, but it is great in talent.

Aruban minister of Sport present at the American Baseball

Coaches Association congress

ORANJESTAD –Yesterday afternoon, with these companies that have differ-
Aruban minister of Sport, Mr. Endy ent materials that can be purchased
Croes departed for a work trip to Nash- in the future for baseball in Aruba. It
ville, Tennessee for a big congress of will also be a good opportunity to get
the American Baseball Coaches As- a closer view of the newest products
sociation. ABCA is the largest organi- that have recently been launched,
zation of amateur baseball coaches in according to a government press re-
the world, with more than 13,000 mem- lease.
bers.
During the exhibition there will be a
During the first week of January, ABCA clinic in which there will be demonstra-
is organizing an exhibition and trade- tions of products and trainings from the
show in the discipline of baseball. Dur- ABCA partners. The minister will meet
ing the tradeshow there will be more with different stakeholders during the
than 300 baseball companies show- congress. The minister indicated that in
casing their products. It is a great op- the coming days he will be updating
portunity for Aruba to create contacts on his work visit to the United States. q