Aruba is a beautiful, first world island. My wife and I travelled there with a good friend who is an Aruban resident. I felt safer in Oranjestaad at Midnight than in most places in America. Yes there are some armpits in the Carribean -- Aruba IS NOT one of them.
You were safer in Orangestaad than here.
Exponentially so.
That is what has folks reeling down there.