CARLOS & CHARLIE'S STATEMENT
Welcome to Carlos & Charlies ladies! Would you like some GHB or X with your drink?
To: The General Public that visit our website:
Due to the recent events on our island, we feel it’s of importance to write a letter to the general public in hopes of eliminating any misconceptions that have arisen due to the events of the past week. Because of the multiple articles in various local and international newspapers, as well as television broadcast coverage on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, we feel the responsibility to correspond to explain our existence in this extremely important matter while expressing our concerns for all individuals and families involved in this sad and unfortunate situation.
To re-cap events over the past week - A group of 40 Americans came to our restaurant on Sunday evening, the 29th of May. The group entered the restaurant around 11: 30 pm. As always, all individuals were identified as being at least 18 – years of age before entering our restaurant. Being a Sunday evening, the restaurant was quiet with a small crowd of around 15 patrons. The entire group of 40 Americans stayed for about an hour and a half – leaving the restaurant at 1 am - our closing time. It was not until 48 hours later that we were told that the group that had visited our restaurant was a high school group from Birmingham, Alabama – and one of the students (Natalee Holloway) had been missing since early Monday morning.
Since finding out about the disappearance of Miss Holloway, we have diligently worked with Aruba officials and the local police department in hopes of helping to further the ongoing investigation. We immediately posted multiple “missing person” sign with a photo and description of Miss Holloway. We have made our employees available on an ongoing basis to meet with those officials in hopes of helping the investigative team. Out of our concern for the safety and security of Miss Holloway, we contacted a spokesperson for the Holloway family to let them know that we were adding an additional $5,000 to the existing $50,000 reward monies for any information leading to the disappearance of their daughter. (Should I ask Beth if this is true? Never once heard it before from her!)
Out of respect for Natalee and her family, we cancelled all scheduled events this past week as well as any scheduled festivities and parties for the upcoming weeks. We want the citizens of Aruba to know that we are a law abiding business that has been on the island for 7 years. We are part of the Grupo-Anderson’s restaurant company that has been in business for more than 40 years with 65 restaurants across several countries including Mexico, the United States and various islands in both the East and West Caribbean. We have provided a service linked to the tourism industry of many destinations for many years. We do not operate individually from the Grupo-Anderson’s Corporation and have strict corporate security and operational policies and procedures that I diligently enforce.
We follow all rules and regulations enforced by the Aruban government which has continually worked to make this island extremely safe through the Aruban police department, and organizations such as the Aruban Hospitality and Safety Foundation (Visibility Team). We will continue to support the local police officials in their search for Miss Holloway, as well as the government in their efforts to have the safest island in the Caribbean.
The unfortunate circumstances of the past week have given us all a greater focus to be in constant awareness of our surroundings. We at Carlos ‘n Charlie’s as well as the rest of the country hope to have a happy ending to this sad week.
The Holloway family is in our thoughts and prayers. We want to thank-you for all the comments posted on our website; but we also want to make it clear that Carlos ‘n Charlie’s is not responsible for any of the comments that have been posted on this site, or any other website relating to this past weeks events. These ongoing bantering of comments can lead to more confusion in an already uncertain and unfortunate situation. Thank You for your understanding.
Due to the recent events on our island, we feel it’s of importance to write a letter to the general public in hopes of eliminating any misconceptions that have arisen due to the events of the past week. Because of the multiple articles in various local and international newspapers, as well as television broadcast coverage on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, we feel the responsibility to correspond to explain our existence in this extremely important matter while expressing our concerns for all individuals and families involved in this sad and unfortunate situation.
To re-cap events over the past week - A group of 40 Americans came to our restaurant on Sunday evening, the 29th of May. The group entered the restaurant around 11: 30 pm. As always, all individuals were identified as being at least 18 – years of age before entering our restaurant. Being a Sunday evening, the restaurant was quiet with a small crowd of around 15 patrons. The entire group of 40 Americans stayed for about an hour and a half – leaving the restaurant at 1 am - our closing time. It was not until 48 hours later that we were told that the group that had visited our restaurant was a high school group from Birmingham, Alabama – and one of the students (Natalee Holloway) had been missing since early Monday morning.
Since finding out about the disappearance of Miss Holloway, we have diligently worked with Aruba officials and the local police department in hopes of helping to further the ongoing investigation. We immediately posted multiple “missing person” sign with a photo and description of Miss Holloway. We have made our employees available on an ongoing basis to meet with those officials in hopes of helping the investigative team. Out of our concern for the safety and security of Miss Holloway, we contacted a spokesperson for the Holloway family to let them know that we were adding an additional $5,000 to the existing $50,000 reward monies for any information leading to the disappearance of their daughter. (Should I ask Beth if this is true? Never once heard it before from her!)
Out of respect for Natalee and her family, we cancelled all scheduled events this past week as well as any scheduled festivities and parties for the upcoming weeks. We want the citizens of Aruba to know that we are a law abiding business that has been on the island for 7 years. We are part of the Grupo-Anderson’s restaurant company that has been in business for more than 40 years with 65 restaurants across several countries including Mexico, the United States and various islands in both the East and West Caribbean. We have provided a service linked to the tourism industry of many destinations for many years. We do not operate individually from the Grupo-Anderson’s Corporation and have strict corporate security and operational policies and procedures that I diligently enforce.
We follow all rules and regulations enforced by the Aruban government which has continually worked to make this island extremely safe through the Aruban police department, and organizations such as the Aruban Hospitality and Safety Foundation (Visibility Team). We will continue to support the local police officials in their search for Miss Holloway, as well as the government in their efforts to have the safest island in the Caribbean.
The unfortunate circumstances of the past week have given us all a greater focus to be in constant awareness of our surroundings. We at Carlos ‘n Charlie’s as well as the rest of the country hope to have a happy ending to this sad week.
The Holloway family is in our thoughts and prayers. We want to thank-you for all the comments posted on our website; but we also want to make it clear that Carlos ‘n Charlie’s is not responsible for any of the comments that have been posted on this site, or any other website relating to this past weeks events. These ongoing bantering of comments can lead to more confusion in an already uncertain and unfortunate situation. Thank You for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Alberto Levy
Carlos ‘n Charlie’s General Manager
Representing Grupo-Anderson’s
I'll believe all that have-hearted BS when pigs fly
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