Lively Case Discussion #669 7/30 - 7/31/2007

[San]

Let's hope 2007 brings Justice for Natalee

[Easywriter]

 

[klaasend]

I posted this last night in the previous thread.  Reposting here.  From Amigoe English:

http://www.amigoe.com/english/

More divorces in Aruba than Antilles   

WILLEMSTAD – Of all the divorces filed with the Joint Court last year, the majority were from Aruba; 616 versus 418 in Curacao .   

Bonaire and St. Maarten filed respectively 43 and 162 divorces.  The figures in the annual report show more varieties and peculiarities between the six islands.  “And it raises the necessary questions”, concluded the by-now former president Luis de Lannoy, who was succeeded last month by Lisbeth Hoefdraad, in the preface of the annual report.   “Compared with all couples in the Antilles together, more couples in Aruba get a divorce.  Would there be something wrong with the conjugal fidelity and the wedded happiness in Aruba ?  And why are there in Bonaire more requests for custody placing (40) than in Curacao and Aruba (38 and 40)?  These islands have more inhabitants.  Does Bonaire have a problem with growing youth?”   

De Lannoy also indicated briefly the appearance of the Supervisory Council on the Bar.  Last year, as much as 102 of these cases were filed in Curacao, while Aruba filed only 12 and St. Maarten 55.  “Are the lawyers in Curacao much more wicked and do they make more mistakes than their Aruban learned friend”, wonders De Lannoy.  The necessary interested information can in any case be filtered from the figures and tables presented.  “It looks like sudoko.  I wish you much reading- and puzzle pleasure.”   

On all the islands last year, more suits were submitted than were handled.   The difference between these influx and efflux on the islands is in general not so big.  In Aruba for example, 2339 new criminal cases were entered in the procedure and 2282 trials were sentenced; in Curacao this was 1464 and 1613; in Bonaire 174 and 163; and in St. Maarten 1692 and 1662.  The figures for civil cases last year were 2925 versus 3053 in Aruba; 380 versus 292 in Bonaire; 3864 versus 2774 in Curacao ; and 1055 versus 768 in St. Maarten.  They have tried to calculate the average completion time by means of a random spot check of 10 percent of all the closed cases.  The results in civil procedures are 151 days in Bonaire, 56 days in Curacao , and 93 in St. Maarten.  In lawsuit procedures, these were 6 days in St. Maarten and 29 days in Aruba .  In tax cases, 617 days on all the islands.   

[Easywriter]

Since no one is talking this morning, I will share another O/T.  This is a sad, but well written glimpse at another side of this cyber age in which we now live.

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291316,00.html

[SunFreak2]

I'm in and posting.  YIPPEE!!  Thanks for everybody's help.  It just worked today - I did nothing dufferent.

[klaasend]

I'm in and posting.  YIPPEE!!  Thanks for everybody's help.  It just worked today - I did nothing dufferent.

AOL finally did what they were supposed to do 2 1/2 days ago.

Glad you finally got in!

[tcumom]

Easy, SunFreak, Muffy ~ so glad y'all are here this morning ~ we were missing all of you Saturday and Sunday!  It's kind of info overload at first.....lots of stuff to discover. 

[SunFreak2]

I'm in and posting.  YIPPEE!!  Thanks for everybody's help.  It just worked today - I did nothing dufferent.

I guess I needed to use that spellchecker.   

[Mere]

Good morning....!

Using AOL and loading easily this morning....Thanks.

[truthseeker2]

Wow.  This is my first visit to the site since the changes were implemented.  it's awesome in here!!  I love the look.  Can't wait to play with all that stuff I see above the text box.    And look....A spell check tool!!  

[SunFreak2]

Good morning....!

Using AOL and loading easily this morning....Thanks.

Hi Klaas, Muffy, MeMere & Easy.  So good to see you this morning.

[SunFreak2]

Wow.  This is my first visit to the site since the changes were implemented.  it's awesome in here!!  I love the look.  Can't wait to play with all that stuff I see above the text box.    And look....A spell check tool!!  

It is awesome.  I just got in myself and am amazed at the beauty of this  new cage.

Hi TCU!!

[SunFreak2]

I've got to run.  Will be back later.

[Peaches]

I'm in!

Where's robots?

[CJ1]

Guess I better try a post.  I had no problem Saturday, but yesterday was a nightmare.  Everything seems to be okay now.

[BTgirl]

Guess I better try a post.  I had no problem Saturday, but yesterday was a nightmare.  Everything seems to be okay now.

What a cool socky monkey! 

[Nut44x4]

Guess I better try a post.  I had no problem Saturday, but yesterday was a nightmare.  Everything seems to be okay now.

I agree, it is much better now and I don't even have AOL, lol.

[CJ1]

BTgirl,

How do you like my avatar?  I finally got it to work with the new forum.

[tcumom]

I'm in!

Where's robots?

I think Robots is having a little problem adjusting to the new look ~ he appeared Saturday night, briefly......and had to leave.   

We need him in here ~ glad everyone's gradually making it in.......

[CJ1]

Guess I better try a post.  I had no problem Saturday, but yesterday was a nightmare.  Everything seems to be okay now.

I agree, it is much better now and I don't even have AOL, lol.

I don't have AOL either, but it seemed to effect my hotmail as well.  I couldn't get it to work yesterday.