In its continued effort to go green, Saba Electric Company N.V. (SEC) took one step closer to establishing a more renewable form of energy production in Saba by purchasing additional land for the development of a second solar park. This comes as a result of the decision to reduce the …

Saying that he shared the concerns about the socio-economic situation in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, Dutch caretaker Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk has asked the islands’ pensioners to be patient in the process of reaching a solution for the pension cuts. “The Dutch Government is …

Dutch Taalunie organized a “Dutch as a Foreign Language Nederlands als Vreemde Taal NVT” workshop on St. Eustatius and Saba last week. The participants were all teach­ers of primary and second­ary education, who teach Dutch. The objective of the workshop was to iden­tify questions and needs regarding NVT education. The …

The Public Entity Saba is going steady financially. Government expects a surplus of US $440.000 by the end of 2017 to pay off interest-free loans, and the Committee for Financial Supervision CFT has approved the first budget amendment. The Execution Report of the first quarter of 2017. sent to CFT …

Child Focus Foundation project leader Stacey Simmons and co-founder/chairperson Henriette van Heijnsbergen attended the Appeltje van Oranje award ceremony at the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague on May 18.   In November Child Focus presented their After School Activities project in Curacao to a panel of Oranje Fonds representatives. Child …

Dutch caretaker Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk has announced the start of the Committee of Wise Men for St. Eustatius. Members of that committee will be former Aruba Governor Fredis Refunjol and Member of the Council of State Jan Franssen. In order to assure an objective, …

On Sunday, May 21st , 2017, around 01:45 AM, the police received  a report that a fight was taking place, on the E.A. JOHNSON road in the vicinity of The Hide Away Bar & Restaurant in Windward Side, where witnesses would have seen that a man with the initials J.L.S.F. …

Roughly 20 per cent of electricity consumers on Saba will see an increase on their electrical bill per July 1, as a result of an increase in tariffs. In a town hall meeting on May 16, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Saba Electric Company explained the …

The lower section of the Ladder Bay Trail will be temporarily closed and the dive-site buoy will be tem­porarily removed during the salvaging process of motor yacht Elsa. A public notice issued Friday by the Public Entity of Saba reads that due to precautionary measures, the Lad­der Bay Trail will …

Last week, the social organizations on Saba, Bonaire and St. Eustatius, were informed during information sessions about the new funding scheme “Opportunities for all children”. From 2017 until 2021, one million euros will be made available, with the aim to provide all children between 0 and 17 years who are …

St. John’s, May 22, 2017 Re : Invitation Town Hall Meeting Dear SCS Stakeholders, By means of this letter we respond to the information we received last Friday, May 19, 2017, about the Town Hall Meeting. On May 11th, The Saba Educational Foundation (SEF) held an informative meeting with both …

The St. Maarten Sport Fishing Foundation hosted their fourth annual Island Water World Mahi tournament on Saturday at Bobby’s Ma­rina in Philipsburg. There were 16 registered fishing teams from both sides of the Friendly Island, Saba, St. Barth’s, and St. Kitts. Fishing vessel Lorna Mae from St. Maarten, cap­tained by …

The Second Chamber of the Dutch Parlia­ment has started the process of the second reading to amend the Dutch Constitution to embed the constitutional basis of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba and to es­tablish an Electoral Council for the islands, despite Statia’s objec­tions. The proposal to amend the Con­stitution has …

Violations by the maritime sector at the Saba Bank remain a problem. Ship owners keep trespassing in the restricted area, and the number of vi­olations has not decreased last year. The Dutch Car­ibbean Coast Guard wants harsher measures against multiple offenders. The trend in which au­thorities noted a 50 per …

Retired civil servants of Bonaire, St. Eusta­tius and Saba receiving a pension will not be compensated for the 3.5 per cent reduction of their monthly pay-out by Caribbean Netherlands Pension Fund PCN. “The Dutch Government is not considering flanking policy in the form of compensation of pension cuts that were …