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A14 LOCAL
Friday 29 November 2019
Reminder to all airport users
“Wild parking areas” will be closed off as of December 1st, 2019

ORANJESTAD – Aruba Airport Authority
N.V. (AAA) hereby reminds all airport us-
ers who currently park in the “wild park-
ing areas” as indicated in the picture, that
as of coming Sunday, December 1st, 2019
it will no longer be possible to park there.
The closing that was announced at the
end of October 2019 has been ongoing
already and the areas in question have
been closed off with boulders partially dur-
ing the past weeks. On Sunday December
1, 2019 the openings that remain will be
closed off completely at 00:00 hrs. After
the mentioned date all vehicles that are
still parked in that area can be removed
by contacting either our Customer Service
office at 524-2424 or our Traffic Attendants
office at 524-2116 or 524-2471 in order for
us to assist with opening the closed of ar-
eas. This will only be for removing of the
vehicles. No entry for parking and/or stag-
ing in that area will be possible under any
circumstance after December 1, 2019.

If airport users wish to use the covered or
uncovered staff parking at AAA, a request
must be sent to b.brown@airportaruba.
com or r.winklaar@airportaruba.com as
soon as possible. q

Aruba’s Father of Culture

has gone to heaven

ORANJESTAD — Juan Chabaya Lampe or Padu del
Caribe the man, the legend, the father of Aruban cul-
ture has passed away yesterday afternoon at the age
of 99 years. He was perhaps one of the most interna-
tionally renowned and influential artists his beloved na-
tive island of Aruba has ever known.

Starting with the release of his first record in late 1960
– which was titled “Padu del Caribe en Venezuela”,
a record which went on to sell 50.000 copies within its
first year of release and established him as a household
name in Venezuela – he has established himself as one
of the most esteemed legacies in Caribbean music
over the course of a career which has spanned five
decades. He was born in Oranjestad, Aruba on April
26th 1920 with the given name Juan Chabaya Lampe,
one could argue that Padu del Caribe – he adopted
the name Padu after it was bestowed upon him as a
nickname in honor of his grandfather, his ‘padushi’ –
was destined to leave his mark on the music world as
he was born into a very musical family. Padú del Ca-
ribe wrote "Aruba Dushi Tera", a waltz that is now the
national anthem for Aruba and was long a rallying cry
for separation from the Netherlands Antilles, which was
achieved in 1986. q