The Tumba Festival started this Monday January the 30th
The tumba is a musical event, previous to carnival that lasts 4 days . The first 3 days are to choose the king or the queen of the tumba and Friday is the day where he or she is chosen.
It´s a beautiful festival full of music, dance and drinks worth of watching it.
For more information:
http://www.curacao.com/The-Curacao-Difference/Carnival!-Dancing-and-Music/Tumba-Festival

SOURCE: AMIGOE
DATE: JANUARY 17, 2012
WILLEMSTAD — Centro Sambil, a large Venezuelan chain of shopping malls has far advanced plans to set up a large shopping center on Curaçao. The concern has their eye on a property at Veeris and their representatives already visited the island to consult with the local authorities, the Amigoe understood from several sources.Sambil is originally a Venezuelan company but is now expanding considerably in the Caribbean area. Centro Sambil was once founded by the Venezuelan engineer and executive Salomón Cohen Levy. The first Sambil mall opened in 1998 in Caracas, Venezuela. Since then, the company has opened shopping centers in Valencia, Margarita, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisimeto and Punto Fijo-Paraguaná. Sambil will open a mall in St. Domingo, Dominican Republic in October this year. The company now has far advanced plans for a large mall on Curaçao and is attempting to realize their plans also in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Trinidad.



The malls from Sambil are huge with several floors and consist of a large number of shops, cinemas and restaurants. The mall in Caracas is the largest in Venezuela and one of the largest in South America. The five-floor complex measures over 250,000 square meters with at least 430 shops and a four-floor parking lot for approximately 4000 vehicles.

Sambil has several shareholders, of which Cisneros Group is the largest. This group is also known as the owner of the Venezuelan TV-channel Venevisión and responsible for the organization of the Miss Venezuela elections.

From September 30 to October 2 we were in Utrecht, Holland where we participated in the Second Home International Fair with other participants of the world.