-Enjoy the new All-Inclusive Suites Program for 20% Off-

New this year, Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort on Aruba has launched an All Inclusive special that encompasses 2 other popular Divi branded resorts, Divi & Tamarijn Aruba All Inclusives. In addition to elegant, air-conditioned suite accommodations, guests can now select the All Inclusive Suites Program which is the largest and most complete all – inclusive offering on Aruba. The Divi Village All-Inclusive Suites Program includes an array of amenities such as meals at 11 restaurants for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, with theme nights and nightly entertainment, 12 bars with unlimited drinks (surcharges may apply), and the Oceanview Bar with lively entertainment. A mile of white sand beach with thatch palapas is just steps away. Guests can also enjoy a variety of non-motorized watersports and land activities such as kayak, snuba, snorkeling, and SCUBA clinics and water aerobics as well as tennis, volleyball, board games, billiards and shopping tours along with a fully equipped fitness center. The 9-hole Divi Links golf course and Indulgence By the Sea Spa are also available for an additional charge.

To introduce this special program, The Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort is offering a 20% discount on the rates with nightly rate per person beginning at $166.00 based on double occupancy. This rate is for reservations made from September 17 – October 5 for travel October 1 – Dec 22, 2007.

Divi Resorts operates eight resorts on five Caribbean islands including the Divi Carina Bay Beach Resort & Casino in St. Croix; Divi Little Bay Beach Resort in St. Maarten; Divi Southwinds Beach Resort and Divi Heritage Beach Resort in Barbados; Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino in Bonaire; and Divi Aruba Phoenix Beach Resort, Divi Village Golf and Beach Resort and Divi Dutch Village Resort in Aruba. As of the first quarter 2007, Divi Aruba Phoenix Divi Village Golf and Divi Dutch Village Beach Resorts in Aruba have been awarded the AAA’s prestigious 3 Diamond Rating. From relaxing on white sand beaches and indulging in spa services to embarking on amazing scuba diving adventures and trying your luck in the casino, Divi Resorts has it all… and more.

The Aruba Hotel & Tourism Association recently revealed details of the award process, overview and timetable.

According to the AHATA the official Applications are due on October 1, 2007. Then the Consensus Meeting will take place on October 15, 2007 with the Site Visit Notification given by October 22, 2007. Site Visits will follow between October 29- 31, 2007. At that time the Judges Recommendation Meeting will take place, on November 5, 2007, with the much awaited Awards Ceremony unfolding on November 30, 2007.

The Shoco Awards of Excellence is AHATA’s official recognition program focusing on excellence in service, hospitality and outstanding contribution to the sustainability of Aruba’s tourism industry.

As for those eligible to participate in the award process, the following categories are include: Allied Employee of the Year; Allied Supervisor of the Year; Allied Member of the Year; Hotel Employee of the Year; Hotel Supervisor of the Year; Hotel of the Year & Young Tourism Professional of the Year.

Award applicants are expected to provide detailed information for each of the individual awards as well as data for each organization’s key processes and

results. This information and data must be adequate to demonstrate and support that the applicants’ approaches are effective.

The award application requirements are the following:

Applicants need to submit complete nomination application based on the criteria requested along with copies of the required supporting documentation, for individual awards.

Hotel and Allied Member Award Applications must submit the self evaluation for each of the 7 criteria levels as well as the supporting documents requested with an explanation of how the organization is meeting the self identified levels of the criteria for success.

The Application Review will be orchestrated by a group of qualified independent professionals selected by the Award Committee which will evaluate all applications. These individuals will be selected locally as well as internationally. They meet the highest standards of qualifications and peer recognition.

The Interviews and Site Visits will be used to verify the information provided by the application and to clarify issues and questions that have arisen during the application review process. Applicants for the individual awards will be selected for an interview by a selection committee determined by the Award Committee. Organizations will receive a site visit during which the committee will have discussions and interviews with the management team and the staff. This is done to verify the information on the application form. Applicants will be responsible for scheduling introductory and concluding presentations.

The Shoco Awards Program is available for all hotel and allied members of AHATA.

Strict conflict of interest rules apply throughout all Shoco processes. Individual applications, responses to criteria, commentary and scoring information developed during the review of the application are kept confidential by the Panel of Judges and AHATA.

Team to Re-Launch the Former La Cabana Villas and Royal Cabana Casino

KL International, LLC, a closely held international resort and casino development company and the parent company of KL Holding Company, N.V., today announced its senior management team for its recently acquired timeshare resort and casino – The Aruban Resort & Casino at Eagle Beach.

Gary A. Tadych was named Managing Director for KL International, LLC. Tadych is the President of The TAG Group, Inc., a privately held financial services and management advisory corporation that specializes in the negotiation and placement of asset-backed and conventional financing transactions for the Resort Development Industry.

Tadych has been active in the Resort Development Industry since 1973. He was responsible for negotiating and closing the industry’s first AAA/Aaa rated asset- backed security utilizing timesharing receivables as collateral. He also negotiated, structured and placed the industry’s first Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC)-qualified asset-backed offering.

Tadych is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of "Financing the Timeshare," published in the Urban Land Institute's publication of Timesharing II. He is a former member of The Chairman's League of American Resort Development Association (ARDA) and has served on the Vacation Timeshare Council (VTC) finance committee.

Farzin Ferdosi, also named Managing Director for KL International, LLC, has been active and a leader in the Resort Development Industry since 1981 and has been an industry innovator in the sales and marketing field. Most recently, Ferdosi has been involved with various resort, condominium and hotel developments in Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Also on the KL International team is Frank Gazzolo, who was named Chief Financial Officer. Gazzolo, a Certified Public Accountant, has significant experience in P&L management, real estate development, financing, and asset and property management.

Most recently Gazzolo was a consultant as a due diligence underwriter to Inland Real Estate Group for three Private Placement REITS, which raised more than $11 billion. Previously, he was Vice President of Finance for Capital First Realty, Inc., a privately held real estate management and development company with a $300 million portfolio. He also was Chief Financial Officer of The Parkshore, a 478-unit luxury condominium conversion in Chicago, and its related construction company. Gazzolo graduated from the University of Illinois and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

The Aruban is the former La Cabana Villas and Royal Cabana Casino in Aruba. The property includes a 362-room timeshare and resort hotel consisting of two five-story buildings and two four-story buildings, a 48,000 square foot permanent casino, a restaurant (currently operating as a temporary casino) and recreational amenities. The Company recently sold $65 million in senior secured notes to institutional investors and purchased the resort assets for $50.3 million. When completed the casino will be one of the largest in the Caribbean. In addition, the Company will be selling more than 15,000 timeshare interests in the refurbished hotel.

Passenger Boarding Bridge certificates were handed out at the VIP room of AAA, the Aruba Airport Authority. The ceremony was attended by a number of airport dignitaries and General Air Service management.

Eight years ago with the opening of the modern, new Reina Beatrix Airport, AAA handled the passenger boarding bridges intent on eventually allowing the airline companies and General Air, Aruba’s largest ground handling company to render the service as well.

Initially, three agents were trained by AAA to be instructors for General Air Services. In time, a total of 16 additional agents achieved certification as Passenger Boarding Bridge Operators. All nineteen candidates passed their exams and were officially certified by Reina Beatrix Airport.

Dimitri Pavlowitch, the General Manager of General Air Services delivered the opening remarks during the festive gathering. He was joined by Mario Bikker, Staff Unit Manager, AAA Airport Development, Eric Martijn, Interim Business Unit Manager, AAA Airside, and Robert Verwoerd, Manager Human Resources of General Air Services, who also helped presenting the certificates to the graduates.

The five day training program was followed by a theoretical exam and hands-on practice.

The three Passenger Boarding Bridge Operator instructors are Franklin Croes, Mariano Ras & Patrick Gumbs. Their students include Passenger Boarding Bridge Operators Charlotte Heemstadt, Danilo de Cuba, Desiree Nicolaas, Dimitri Pavlowitch, Edson Everon, Hubert Kingsale, Iain Schwengle, Jermaine Janga, Jhon Alexander Peterson, Linda van Dongen, Ludwig Rincones, Melissa Werleman, Michelangelo Helder, Rashel Thijsen, Ryan Croes and Yanel Olivero.

Artist Nancy Hernandez is scheduled to open a solo exhibition at the Renaissance Marketplace on October 5th, 2007. You might recall that she lived here with Dutch-born dive instructor husband, Ernst, before leaving to Argentina. While successfully growing roots there, in the remote region of Mendoza, she still misses her island immensely, she reports. And thus she comes back every year to update her local fans on her artistic progress and to show off her latest dazzling canvases.

In the past few years, Nancy had successful solo exhibitions at the Wyndham, now the Westin Aruba Resort; she also showed at the Renaissance Marketplace, on two separate occasions. Her past themes, scenes from Aruba below and above water, scenes from Argentina's wine country, and her Invisible Kids, were all well represented in the body of her work shown on Aruba. Her paintings are very colorful, and fuse abstract and expressionistic treatments of well-known and much loved subjects such as dolphins, dessert landscapes, quaint colonial architecture, birds, flowers, grape vines and Aruba’s California lighthouse.

In Argentina, the full-time artist is also a grape-grower by profession. Her country estate, her finca, makes its own wine, which is highly rated, a natural product without any preservative. The Argentinean economy is recovered, Nancy says and many Americans and Europeans have discovered that Southern part of the world which reminds many travelers of Europe. Nancy is inviting her friends to visit the exhibition, after October 5th, and taste some of her Argentinean wine.

Her friend Carina Molina, a budding local Aruban artist will also have three canvases on display at the exhibition, as a special guest-artist.

Organizers are very happy with the results and with the participation of PGA’s players Robert Ames from USA and Jesus Amaya “Estrellita” from Colombia

Last week-end at the prestigious 18th holes golf course of Tierra del Sol the 13th Aruba International Pro-Am Golf Tournament took place in a great ambience where all participating golfers from various countries: USA, Holland, Curacao, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Aruba showed their golfing skills on the challenging golf course. The two day tournament is hosted by Tierra del Sol and has as main sponsor the Aruba Tourism Authority and other sponsors such as JV Oduber, Caribbean Mercantile Bank, Stern Motors, Playa Trading, Aruba Trading Company, Little Switzerland, Compra and Tropical Bottling Company.

Host hotels for the Aruba Tourism Authority invited teams were Divi Village, The Westin, Occidental and Tierra del Sol.

Participating celebrity golfers:
This year the tournament was one of the largest to date with 31 teams made up of 4 amateurs and one international club Pro. The Aruba Tourism Authority was very happy to have celebrities ex- big leaguer Mr. Marcano Trillo from Venezuela and now infielder coach for the White Sox and the PGA players like Robert Ames from the USA and Jesus Amaya “Estrellita” from Colombia with his trademark star sign join the tournament.

Winners by team:
1st Place and overall winner of the 13th “Aruba International Pro-Am Golf Tournament 2007: team Aaron West from Trinidad & Tobago
2nd Place team Berti Con from Curacao
3rd Place team Robert Ames from USA

In the Professionals the results were:
1st Place Adam Williamson –Aruba The Links
2nd Place Jesus Amayra- Colombia
3rd Place Otto Solis- Venezuela

The longest drive was won by young Argentine Nicholas Pizzolante and nearest to the Pin went to Carlos Morales from Venezuela.

The final award night went on in a great party atmosphere were all 155 participants and their guests enjoyed an elegant 5 course dinner at Ventanas del Mar at Tierra del Sol. Participants reported to looking forward to next year event.

A Night In Havana

Shrimp marinated in olive oil, lemon and cilantro on a bed of heart of palm and arugula, with pineapple cocktail sauce.

Camarones marinados en aceite de oliva, Limon y cilantro sobre una cama de palmitos y arugula con una salsa cocktail de piña

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Creamy fresh Pumpkin soup Cuban style
Crema de calabaza al estilo Cubano

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Grilled free range Chicken breast
Pechuga de Pollo a la parrilla

Or
Baked Cuban Tilapia filet
Tilapia Cubano al horno

Or
Charbroiled flat Iron steak
Carne “flat Iron “ a la parrilla

All entrees are served with black beans, yucca and cumin garlic roasted pepper pesto.
With our entrees we serve three different sauces:
Avocado cilantro sauce with orange and lemon, hot papaya mayonnaise infused with madame jeanette pepper, Cuban crab mojo sauce
El plato principal es servido con frijoles negros, yuca y un pesto de ajo y comino, con salsa de aguacate y cilantro con jugo de naranja, mayonesa picante de papaya con infusion de aji madame jeannete y Mojo Cubano de cangrejo

Chef special select dessert
Postre del Chef

Consuming raw or undercooked meets, poultry, seafood, shellfish or egg may increase your risk of food borne illness

Enjoy the Show

Open from Tuesday through Saturday
Door’s Open at 6:30pm Dinner Start at 7:00pm Show time: 8:30pm

Price: U$ 69.00 or 59.00 p/p + 15% service charge + 3% local tax

Price Includes the four course dinner and one complimentary Mojito drink
Beverages are not included

Baires Productions is the exclusive representative of “Estrellas del Ballet”, a group incorporated by the best performers of the Colon Theatre of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This group performs some of the most well known pieces of ballet as well as neo-classic tango. They all have individual and group experience performing internationally. Maricel DiMitri and Alejandro Parente (who are on the videos on our website) were previously appointed to represent UNESCO on a 20-show tour around Europe. The rest of the group has also been previously invited on tours around the U.S. and Europe.

We are very proud of the fact that many respected critics consider the Colon Theatre to be in the top 3 worldwide and that “Estrellas del Ballet” and Baires Productions will be able to reach multicultural regions such as Australia, Israel and the U.S., during 2008.

“A group of the most radiant stars of ballet, led by the great Tatiana Fesenko, give life to heroes and heroines, enchanted princes and princesses, fantastic swans and spirits from the forest that will be a delight to audiences of all ages and will open your heart and inspire the soul. Ballet masterpieces such as “Swan Lake”, “Nutcracker”, “Don Quixote”, constitute, along with some of the most original neo-classic tango, a true essence of humanity’s culture. All of these wonderful ingredients are sure to give you an exciting spectacle of international flavors seeking to keep the sacred spirit of ballet alive.”

Visit www.bairesproductions.com for more information.

New this year, Divi Village Golf & Beach Resort on Aruba has launched an All-Inclusive special that encompasses 2 other popular Divi branded resorts, Divi Aruba and Tamarijn. In addition to elegant, air-conditioned suite accommodations, guests can now select the All-Inclusive Suites Program which is the largest and most complete all-inclusive offering on Aruba.

The Divi Village All-Inclusive Suites Program includes an array of amenities such as meals at 11 restaurants for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, with theme nights and nightly entertainment, 12 bars with unlimited drinks (surcharges may apply), and the Oceanview Bar with lively entertainment.

A mile of white sand beach with thatch palapas is just steps away. Guests can also enjoy a variety of non-motorized watersports and land activities such as kayak, scuba, snorkeling, and SCUBA clinics and water aerobics as well as tennis, volleyball, board games, billiards and shopping tours along with a fully equipped fitness center. The 9-hole Divi Links golf course and Indulgence by The Sea spa are also available for an additional charge.

To introduce this special program, Divi is offering a 20% discount on the rates with nightly rate per person beginning at $166.00 based on double occupancy. This rate is for reservations made from September 17 - October 5 for travel October 1 - Dec 22, 2007.