Community Service

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

NetTech Launches Internet-Based Bonaire Tourism News Service

NetTech, N.V. today announced a new independent news service called Bonaire Insider. Located on the Internet at www.BonaireInsider.com, it will focus on providing timely and current tourism information for the island of Bonaire. 

Created in the form of a “Blog” (a contraction of the words “Web” and “Log"), Bonaire Insider offers news clippings from a variety of local and international sources and will be a significant resource for tourists and locals alike to stay abreast of current events happening on Bonaire.  As is the norm with blogs, viewers can also post their personal moderated comments about the news items. 

Viewers may also elect to receive personal e-mail alerts when new items are posted; e-mails are normally received within two to three hours of posting. People interested in these free e-mail alerts can visit www.bonaireinsider.com/subscribe.html.  Signup for e-mail alerts can be also accomplished from any page of the main site.

www.BonaireInsider.com will also be providing live news feeds to the popular www.InfoBonaire.com web site, Bonaire’s largest and most complete and up-to-date tourism web site used by many for planning trips to Bonaire.  The live news feed can be seen on the InfoBonaire home page in the “What’s New” column.

Navigating the new Bonaire Insider site is simple; the home page lists all news items in reverse-chronological order - newest posts first.  Viewers may also elect to view posts by month or by a single category of interest, or even peruse all categories, in which case category headlines are listed in alphabetical order.  A FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page answers any questions a viewer may have.

NetTech invites all Bonaire-tourism-related entities to send in their news for possible inclusion on the blog - no news is too small to be considered. Such news items can be emailed to . (Source: NetTech N.V. Press Release)

Monday, August 21, 2006

Quarterly Underwater Clean-up on September 16, 2006

Dive Friends Bonaire and NetTech N.V. have announced that their next quarterly underwater clean-up dive will take place on Saturday, September 16th at the Yellow Submarine dive shop north of downtown Kralendijk.

The clean-up will start at 1:00pm with an orientation conducted by Jake Richter (yours truly), followed by a dive at the designated clean-up spot. After the dive, the garbage collected will be tallied and logged.

Then, at 5:30pm, there will be a potluck BBQ at Yellow Submarine to tell war stories about the trash that was (or wasn’t) found and cool critters seen during the dive, as well as to enjoy each others’ company and good food and drink.

Dive Friends Bonaire will provide free air (tanks) to all divers as well as grilled chicken and other meats at the BBQ, NetTech will provide the BBQ beverages (soda and beer) and orientation, and PSI/Sherwood Scuba will provide some door prizes to winning participants.

For more details, click here. (Source: Dive Friends Bonaire, NetTech N.V.)

Rotary Club Bonaire Receives Additional Donations for Breakfast-in-School Program

Last Friday, August 18, 2006, the president of the Rotary Club Bonaire, Mrs. Marisela Croes, received two donations for the Breakfast-in-School project from Larry Gerharts.

The total donation was nearly Ang. 3500.00 (approximately USD $2000.00) and was given by anonymous sponsors.

The Rotary Club Bonaire has been running the Breakfast in School project now for over two years; the program provides almost 150 breakfasts a day at Bonaire’s schools.

For additional information about the Rotary Club Bonaire or the Breakfast-in-Schools Program, visit www.rotarybonaire.org.  (Source:  The Rotary Club Bonaire)