The Royal Couple was issued a commemorative silver coin, courtesy of Aruba Central Bank and presented by Prime Minister Mike Eman, in honor of their recent visit to Aruba.

Carol and John Slavin return to Aruba to celebrate their golden anniversary, thirty years after they first stepped foot on the island, with their “extended Aruban family”.

The students will spend two weeks on Aruba analyzing the challenges of upgrading the Rancho barrio as part of the third Sustainable Building study.

The Let it Ride was won by Mr. Jack who visiting Aruba from Southington Connecticut. Mr. Jack was staying at Marriott Ocean Club and was playing for only 24 minutes on the Let it Ride table and he called the bet noticing that he had the Royal Flush.

The 53rd edition of the Miss International Beauty pageant will take place on December 17th in Tokyo, Japan. The Miss International Beauty Pageant promotes cultural exchanges, world peace and international contributions through charities for the underprivileged children all around the world. The aim of this festival is for each delegate to compete with not only their external beauty but also to enrich their inner beauty by having international exchanges and social action plans. Aruban representative Irailda Croes currently holds the 12 position in the voting among 83 candidates. 

The delegation of Aruba Bodyboard just recently competed in the “2013 Encanto Pro” at Playa Jobos, Puerto Rico. Aruba had four competitors in the Open Division, two in the Dropknee Division and one in the Womens Division.

Aruba is the last leg of a six-island tour of the Dutch Caribbean territories by HRM King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima; this is also the first time since 1890 that both a king and queen have sat on the throne.

The Royal Jump-up will go down in our history books as a historic event bringing more school children together in one activity than ever before. The goal of these activities is to see our children enjoy themselves and see our Royal couple from close up.

2013 was an incredible year for Team Aruba with the first Extreme Pro Stock victory, ending fifth in points at the Championship, running a 4.02 at the World Finals being the best elapsed time and making them the fastest naturally aspirated Ford. Team Aruba is hoping to built on this years successes in order to bring home even more trophies to Aruba next racing season.

After their Wall of Fame, Paseo Herencia Shopping Mall Aruba was contented to unveil their newest addition for honoring outstanding international achievements of local athletes and artists. The first star to be placed on the ‘Walk of Fame’ is for Xander Bogaerts, honoring him for his exceptional performance during the ALCS and World Series.

Diane Patterson and her husband Ronnie from Dunmore Connecticut had plenty of good things to say after spending a fabulous week enjoying their prize package for achieving second place in the VisitAruba video contest.

The FIFA World Cup Trophy is making a global tour and is visiting in total 88 countries. Aruba had the honor to welcome the FIFA World Cup Trophy on Saturday November 2nd, making it an historic day as it was the first time that the Trophy arrived on Aruba. Hundreds of Aruban got the chance to view the World Cup and to take a picture with the Trophy.