Isaac Chin looks into the Natalee Holloway phenomenon, and gives a complete background of the places, the times, the actors, and then carefully debunks the more fanciful theories, while offering a scenario of his own. Chin, who lives on Aruba, saw with dismay the circus develop . . . and notes that although Natalee Holloway has not been found, the limelighting and mugging for the cameras continues. This book gives a thorough understanding of the locations that the news papers and TV commentators talk about with such seeming familiarity, of the people involved, of the Aruban justice system, and of the competing theories of what actually happened to Natalee Holloway. Chin pulls no punches . . . he's lived on Aruba for many years and knows the place and the people.
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Born to immigrant Chinese and East Indian parents in British Guiana (now Guyana), under impoverished conditions, Isaac Joseph Chin, by dint of determination, sacrifice; honest, hard work, and a fair amount of luck, passed through a kaleidoscope of careers, adventure and undertakings, never shirking an obligation or a reasonable challenge. Now, at age 87, fully retired from wage-earning activities, he is fully occupied--when daylight permits--sweating in his fruit orchard, in his workshop, even on the roofs of his several houses on his country estate on Aruba, the sunny, little island in.the Caribbean. When daylight deserts him he is at his astronomical telescope looking at terrestrial bodies, or for the man in the moon. Or, lying in bed rummaging through his past for things that he thinks might make interesting reading. He no longer travels--literally, because, he says, he has seen them all, and because places and people no longer have appeal to a country boy as he still is. Starting at the age of 14 as a student primary school teacher in Trinidad, at a starting monthly salary of $4 (then about U.S.$11), he worked his way through teachers' college and technical college in the U.S.; sandwiching between: newspaper reporting, architectural drafting, building construction, feature-writing, community activities, globe-trotting, and friendly companionship; never resisting to flavor them all with his penchant for humor and mischief. He retired at the age of 60 as a senior engineer at the Lago Oil & Transport Company on Aruba, an Exxon affiliate. Because he was financially strapped, to earn his bachelor's degree from Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne, he had to hitch-hike from Trinidad to the U.S. by small boats, with the sympathetic assistance of persons he met on his journey. And worked, sometimes full-time, while carrying a full load at college. His closest companions, now, are his daughter and his ex-wife; his closest and best friend, a four-legged "shadow" he calls Patch. They eat the same dishes, off the same dishes, share the same rooms; take to, or not take to, the same intruders; occasionally angrily disagree, as all true friends do. He says he is now spending some time trying to score points for entry to heaven, and good attendance at his send-off at grave side.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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RIP OFF,
By Jessica Fletcher (California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Natalee Holloway Case (Paperback)
This book is only 64 pages. Take away the title page, dedication and table of contents and it's 60 pages.
Pity because the author has good insight into the case being from Aruba. Too bad he didn't provide more information. This is a pamphlet, not a book.
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Natalee Holloway Case,
By gingerroot "ginger" (Steger Ill.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Natalee Holloway Case (Paperback)
I found the book very interesting. It is such a sad story.
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This review is from: The Natalee Holloway Case (Paperback)
For years, rich American girls have been spreading lice and disease in this once paradisical tropical-paradise (actually it was an industrial hub, but anyway more tropical-paradisical than Boston, NYC or even Alabama in January). Foreign drunkards have been making hideous noise with rented motorcycles and erupted bellowing and violent from discos, bought up and speculated with local properties, to the delight of the detested island bosses, and a drug-culture has flourished. After enduring these noisome impositions for quite some time, the Arubans are astonished that rather than shouting thanks for their hospitalities, some in America have exploded in accusations and ravings, shrieking for legally sanctioned lynchings, apparently in the belief that Aruba should take over this traditional American custom; it is something from America's Christian heritage, possibly?
In any event, old Mr. Chin, Aruban in the way hardly any mobile American is American any more, tells what it was like to grow up on the 't ouwe eiland, local traditions etc. and watch the lot overwhelmed by a bunch of immigrants. Aruba contemplates making the local patois an Official Language, with entry barred to those who can't speak the lingo, and may also demand work permits.
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