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http://www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/my_files/details.asp?newsid=4816
Dr. Phil’s Aruba Blacklisting Call Slammed
Dr. Phil McGraw
Dr. Phil McGraw

Hardbeatnews, NEW YORK, N.Y., Mon. Sept. 19, 2005: Several Caribbean–born media representatives and community leaders are urging for a strong response from the community following a September 15 call by noted television shrink, Dr. Phil McGraw, for Americans to blacklist Aruba.

The activists made the call on the popular radio show, ‘The Caribbean In Five,’ aired live early yesterday morning on WLIB 1190 AM radio, after Guyanese Chuck Mohan raised the issue that is reportedly dominating the media in Aruba but has been largely absent from media reports elsewhere.

On the Sept. 15th special report on the case of missing Alabama teen, Natalee Halloway, Dr. Phil opined that in moving forward with the investigation disappearance, Americans need to “… tell these people, ‘We will never set foot on Aruban soil again until you stand up and do what you have to do for this young woman.’”

He also urged viewers to write the U.S. State Department, the President and the Aruban government. “They just need to know, ‘There's 270 million people over here that are going to forget you people exist as a destination and see how that works for you. If you're not going to treat Americans with dignity and respect, then you're not going to treat them at all,’” McGraw said, according to transcripts from the show.

And he added, "… I think when you start getting in their pockets in that way then they may just decide where their allegiance is lying and do this thing straight up. And I think we need to bring pressure to bear."

Journalist Colin Moore urged Brooklyn Councilman Kendall Stewart, who was a guest on the show, to help lobby for a strong response to the call by Dr. Phil. While host Bevan Springer called for a letter of complaint to be sent to Ophray Winfrey, whose company, Harpo Productions, produces the show in association with Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions.

The panelists argued that it could be any other Caribbean destination that could become the next target of the venomous attack while pointing out that many missing persons cases in the U.S. fail to garner as much media attention.

The Aruba Tourist Authority has yet to post a response to the Dr. Phil call on their website but Myrna Jansen, director of the Aruba Tourist Board, told HBN last month that tourism arrivals actually increased recently to the island.

“In fact, June arrival numbers show an increase of over 13 percent from the United States,” Jansen stated in response to a HBN query in mid-August. “July and August have a higher hotel occupancy percentage in comparison to last year (and) the fall looks good.”

David Dennis, a spokesperson for top booking engine, Expedia, also supported Jansen’s claims that there has been no drop off in bookings to the Dutch territory. “There hasn’t been any noticeable change,” he told HBN recently.

Meanwhile, a court last week ruled that three suspects in the disappearance of a U.S. teenager can remain free without conditions - overturning an earlier decision that restricted their travel and required them to remain available to investigators. The three young me - Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, however, remain suspects in the May 30 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, according to the Aruba prosecutor's office. - Hardbeatnews.com