Alabama Lawmakers Ask Residents To Avoid Aruba
POSTED: 5:01 pm EDT July 24, 2005
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama House of Representatives passed a resolution asking state residents to boycott travel to Aruba, where an Alabama teenager has been missing for more than seven weeks.
The resolution expresses concern that no one has been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. She vanished May 30 during a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island.
Since Holloway's disappearance authorities in Aruba have detained seven people in connection with the case. But only 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot remains in custody. Holloway was last seen in public leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot.
The resolution's sponsor said he hopes the threat of losing tourist dollars will encourage officials in Aruba to speed up the investigation.
The resolution is not a law and its sponsor said it is just a recommendation asking Alabama tourists to avoid Aruba until the Holloway case is resolved.
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