The policy regarding relief efforts for St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba after Hurricane Irma will be reviewed, State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops stated in a letter to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament on Monday, September 21. The review is aimed at providing …

On Friday, September 18, the central dispatch of Police Force Caribbean Netherlands KPCN received a report that a 64-year-old man had fallen down a staircase near a house on Thais Hill Road in St. John’s in Saba. The man with the initials M.S.Z. had tripped and fallen while running after …

The Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour VSA has recorded seven new active cases of COVID-19. However, the recovery of seventeen persons has also been confirmed, thus bringing the total number of active cases to 66 as of Monday, Sep­tember 21. The total number of con­firmed cases is …

As of September 19th there were ten (10) persons who tested positive for COVID-19 in St. Maarten, increasing the active cases to seventy- six (76). The total number of confirmed cases is now five hundred and eighty- four (584). The Collective Prevention Services (CPS) are monitoring 71 people in home …

On Thursday, September 10th, five students of the Saba Comprehensive School presented the Island Governor Jonathan Johnson, Commissioner Rolando Wilson, and the Island Secretary Tim Muller, each with a copy of the youth advice which came out of the UNICEF #MyNewWorld deliberations held earlier this month. Also present was Ms. …

The Public Entity Saba, in close collaboration with telecommunications company SATEL and the Saba Comprehensive School (SCS), set up a Study Center in the Windwardside for Saba students who had to remain on island due to the COVID-19 crisis and could not return to their university in the United States …

On Thursday, September 10th the Mentorship, Coordinators Rayann Ramdin, and Carol Skinner welcomed the mentors, mentees, and their parents at the official launch of the Mentorship program. Also present was Head of Community Development Martin Richardson and principal of the Saba Comprehensive School Anton Hermans, who opened the program. The …

The Public Entity Saba, in close collaboration with telecommunications company SATEL and the Saba Comprehensive School (SCS), set up a Study Center in the Windwardside for Saba students who had to remain on island due to the COVID-19 crisis and could not return to their university in the United States …

Owners of free-roaming goats on Saba received more information by letter and during a follow-up meeting with the Executive Council on Wednesday, September 16, about the goat control program which is about to start. In the letter, the owners of the free-roaming goats were informed of the assistance that the …

A ceremony was held at the Government Administration Building on Tuesday, September 15 during which the certificates of the management development program PEP and the emergency response team BHV course were handed out to a large group of civil servants of the Public Entity Saba. During a short ceremony, Island …

As part of its efforts to keep the public informed about what to do during natural disasters, the Government Information Service has published a redesigned Hurricane Preparedness Guide and introduced a reusable Storm Tracking Guide for Saba. While both products were published in the past as one booklet, this year, …

— Nine new recoveries recorded — COV­ID-19 cases increased with eight new active cases re­corded by the Ministry of Public Health on Wednes­day, September 16. The total number of active cases is now down to 61 and the new total of positive cases for St. Maarten is cur­rently 557. Collective Prevention …

Members of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament At­tje Kuiken of the Labour Party PvdA and Antje Di­ertens of the Democrats D66 are concerned about the COVID-19 developments on the Dutch Carib­bean islands and seek clar­ity from government. The two Members of Par­liament (MPs) on Tues­day posed a list of …

During the COVID-19 crisis it has be­come even more clear that Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba are part of the Nether­lands. Minister of Home Af­fairs and Kingdom Relations Kajsa Ollongren stated this in the Explanatory Note of the 2021 draft Kingdom Rela­tions budget. Many COVID-19-related regulations and measures, in most …