On October 4th I wrote a piece about the renovation and expansion of defunct Havana Beach Club into Nikky Beach Restaurant. Nikky Beach Restaurant is a full service beach restaurant with beach chairs and showers as additional service. In the ensuing weeks after the soft opening I read a report in the media that the [...]
After being hit hard by late October and early November storms, popular beaches frequented by mostly tourists were quickly cleaned up by local officials, hotel staff and even some tourists. The viciousness of this storm was not even the amount of rainfall – which was abnormally high – but was more the currents that changed [...]
The Minister of Tourism has announced the details of the new to be constructed linear park. First of what the heck is a linear park? According to Wikipedia (by the way they need donations) a linear park is a structure that is much longer than it is wide. Basically it’s a long walkway path with [...]
Last week’s storm and ensuing change in climate were devastating for our beaches. Unlike popular believe it wasn’t the storms themselves that caused the this but rather the change in wind and currents. Add to the equation the rise in water level and the perfect situation was created for this hit. Affected beaches in Aruba [...]
Despite the fact that storm Tomas has cleared the Southern Caribbean I would like to offer a quick update. This is a wicked storm with a strange pattern. Almost all models predicted a different path Tomas is taking right now. The storm is categorized as a tropical storm with sustained winds of up to 60 [...]
Storm Tomas passed near Aruba last night at a distance of 65 miles away at a speed of 14 mph with wind speed up to 45 mph. As expected this storm didn’t bring much rain in the last 48 hours. As a precautionary measure classes at all public schools were suspended; this was announced early [...]
The latest information I have on Storm Tomas is that it’s now at a distance of about 100 miles (160 km) from Aruba. Over the weekend is has weakened and downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm with sustained speeds of up to 45 mph (72 kph). Remember Aruba has an average wind of [...]
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