According to an AP report in USA today officials in Lima Peru will soon charge Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman suspected in the 2005 disappearance of an American teen in Aruba, with the killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room.

Peru's chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told reporters that van der Sloot admitted under questioning Monday that he killed Stephany Flores, 21, on May 30.



Seems he left her to get some coffee and got pissed that she went in his computer and looked up pics and docs on his Aruba case. He came back, and got in such a rage that he grabbed her by the neck and hit her, police speculate with a tennis racket found in the hotel room.

According to the paper, Flores was found beaten to death, her neck broken, in the 22-year-old Dutchman's hotel room. Police said the two met playing poker at a casino.

Van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, then 18, on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba, where she was celebrating her high school graduation.

The 6-foot-3-tall van der Sloot had been held at Peruvian criminal police headquarters since arriving Saturday in a police convoy from Chile, where he was captured on Thursday

Source

Alright artists, writers,publishers anyone else in or affiliated with the music industry. Here is an event that stands to benefit you and your business. Please read the info below and contact your local organization for exact dates.

From CaribbeanNetNews.com:

The Copyright Advocacy Group for Music and Arts (CAGMA) has launched a project aimed at edifying Caribbean recording artistes, publishers, writers, performers and music industry stake holders about the administrative aspects of copyright, its advancement and challenges.

Hundreds of regional stakeholders and interest groups are expected to benefit greatly from the free project, which would be the first trans-national undertaking of its kind in the Caribbean.

The two-day training project is slated to be held systematically in Barbados, St Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Aruba, Antigua, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Grenada during the months of March and April 2009.

According to CAGMA’s Press Secretary Shevone La Fleur, while the organization is fully prepared to host the projects, discussions are still underway with various stakeholders in the selected territories to provide logistical and moral support. Hence a formal time table for the regional-wide project will be made available when discussions are through and the respective territorial commitments are made.

The Regional Copyright Training Project is partially funded by CAGMA with support from several key players within the Caribbean’s music industry.

CAGMA which is based in Georgetown, Guyana was founded in late 2006, and is arguably one of the most influential copyright entities in the region, and the only one in Latin America and the Caribbeanwhose charter empowers it to negotiate directly with the State.

The organization provides legal representation and international lobbying support to regional copyright owners, musicians and members whose works may have been infringed, primarily outside of the
Caribbean region.

www.cagma.net or contact them by email: info@cagma.netThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

photo source
It's Carnival time in Aruba (Jan.10-24) log on to www.visitaruba.com for all your carnival info!

Here are the Caribbean representatives for the 2008 Miss Universe Pageant which will be held on Sunday July 13th in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. Click on each contestant's name to see their video, read their interview and watch more pics!

Miss Antigua & Barbuda Athina James

Miss Aruba Tracey Nicolaas

Miss Bahamas Sacha Scott

Miss Cayman Islands Rebecca Parchment

Miss Curacao Jenyfeer Natividad Marcelina

Miss Dominican Republic Marianne Cruz Gonzalez

Miss Jamaica April Jackson

Miss Puerto Rico Ingrid Rivera

Miss Trinidad and Tobago Anya Ayoung-Chee

Miss Turks and Caicos Angelica Lightbourne

After watching their videos, my top pics are Trinidad & Tobago(to me she is very relaxed and genuine in front of the camera and thinks well on her feet),  then Cayman Islands (the earrings hitting the chain was kind of annoying but she definitely has personality). Antigua could pass too, she comes off a bit childish but still endearing.

And while you're at it check out the other contestants too??? Why do some of these girls try so hard to speak English when its not their native or even second tongue. Not to laugh anyone, bless her for trying but check out Miss Vietnam's video. Please let her use a translator on Sunday.

The Miss Universe Pageant airs at 9PM ET on NBC.

In Aruba, two brothers from Suriname, Satish (21) and Deepak (24) Kalpoe, who were re-arrested last week in the disappearance of American teenager, Natalee Holloway, have been freed after a judge ruled the evidence was not strong enough to keep holding them.
A third suspect, 20 year old Joran van der Sloott remains in jail.

The three had first been detained after 18 year old Natalee Holloway had last been seen leaving a bar in Aruba with three men hours before she had been due to fly home to America.
Holloway had never been seen again despite an island-wide, high-profile search.
Natalee Holloway had been celebrating her graduation in Aruba with friends and had been due to return to Alabama on May 30, 2005.