I don't know....but a Google search turned up the following:
What is the legal drinking age in Aruba?
Author: Nick, on vacation with family Last response: Sat Jun 11 13:11:11 2005
I don't know the LEGAL drinking age in Aruba, but a Google search turned up the following:
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How strictly do they enforce the legal age? Do the resorts check as closely as the night clubs? Our family has been vacationing in Cancun. Is Aruba comparable on this subject? Thanks
I've been to many of the resort areas in the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. From personal observation, I know that if you are old enough to put your money on the bar, you are old enough to drink. We took our 14 and 16 year old granddaughters to Puerto Vallarta with us several years ago.
They were both offered mixed drinks at various restaurants. We did allow the sixteen yr. old a pina colada, but not the 14 yr. old. They were and still are beautiful blue-eyed blondes. I cannot imagine them there without close supervision/protection. We are taking them again this winter (one just graduated from college, the other is now a junior at the U. of Wyo.) There is no way their parents would allow them to go alone. Call us old-fashioned, but that's just the way it is. Children look to us for, and need protection.
That said, the guilty one is the one who killed this beautiful child. Not the parents and not the chaperones.