On March 4-5 Statia is hosting the Women’s Day Conference and Gala with Susan Tyler as keynote speaker. Winair is offering 25% discounts to the participants.

Domestic workers in the Caribbean Netherlands are not always properly housed, do not always receive the agreed upon wages, and sometimes have to work for long hours without getting paid overtime. This was established during 30 inspections carried out last year by the Labour Inspectorate in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and …

The prison population rates in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba are comparable with those in St. Maarten and other small islands in the Caribbean, and are a little higher than those in Curaçao and Aruba, Minister of Security and Justice Ard van der Steur stated in a letter to the …

Public Notice The Central Committee of the Public Entity Saba will meet on Thursday February 18th, 2016 at 10:00 am at the Government Administration Building. The agenda for said meeting is as follows: Opening Approval of the agenda Approval of the Minutes from the Central Committee meeting on January 21st, …

Dear Editor, Here on Saba we have bars and restaurants that are now operating as discotheques. It is heartbreaking to see how our little 5-square-mile island is now becoming a “do what you want, how you want, when you want and nobody in authority seems to care. Sad to say, …

The Chinese community in Saba, on Monday, welcomed the Year of the Monkey with a spectacular fireworks display in Windwardside, writes The Daily Herald. Chinese New Year’s fireworks display in Windwardside. Lunar New Year is celebrated around the world in communities with large Chinese populations. The New Year, also known …

Centre for Youth and Family (CYF) introduced their new “Read with Me” radio show on The Voice of Saba Q93.9 FM, writes The Daily Herald. Every weekday after the 6:00pm news, an interesting and entertaining story will be read on the radio. On Wednesdays a Dutch story will be read. …

At 8:42am on Monday, February 8, the Elmer Linzey Power Plant went silent for the last time. The power plant, which belongs to electricity provider, Saba Electric Company and had been in operation for the last 43 years was decommissioned as the new power plant located just a few hundred …

Minister of Economic Affairs Henk Kamp is confident that St. Eustatius and Saba will meet the quality standards in the concept Law Electricity and Drinking Water BES, writes The Daily Herald. Kamp expressed his confidence in a letter to the Dutch Parliament’s First Chamber, which still has to vote about …

Child Focus Saba Photography Club has received an Apple 21.5 inch iMac desktop computer this month with funding from Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, writes The Daily Herald. It will be used by club members to edit their photos using Adobe Lightroom software and expand their knowledge of photo and video …

UPDATE: Kindly note that the power outage – which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 4, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for the test to switchover from SEC’s old power plant to its new power plant– has been postponed to: Monday, February 8, 2016, from 8:00 …

The fall 2015 honors society members raised funds through various fundraising activities. These funds are then donated to a community-based organization. The Saba Conservation Foundation (SCF) received a donation for Education Activities such as Environmental Education in the Sacred Heart School, and the after-school Sea Scouts program. Leslie Revel accepted …

An information evening was held Monday at Queen Wilhelmina Library in The Bottom about Saba Initiative, a training programme for everybody on Saba who is looking to develop his or her personal skills and lifestyle, writes The Daily Herald. Together with Body, Mind and Spirit, psychotherapist Suchita Peeters has developed …

Commissioner of Constitutional Affairs Reginald Zaandam and his colleagues Clark Abraham from Bonaire and Christopher Johnson from Saba assembled in the Old Gin House hotel in St. Eustatius on Monday. Their mission was to sign and present Dutch Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk with a joint …

Body, Mind and Spirit has partnered up with Saba Comprehensive School (SCS), Centre for Youth and Family and the Public Health Department to reach Saba’s adolescent youth with the new “We Can Young” campaign about how respect and personal boundaries work. We Can Young is a spin-off campaign from the …