The Royal Dutch Marines will be hosting an Open Day for the general public on Saturday October 17th from 1:00 to 4:00pm. During this day the marines will give a demo of operations that they do as part of their mission in the Dutch Caribbbean. There will be activities like …

The Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Private Sector Union (WICSU/PSU) met with its members and representatives in Saba and St. Eustatius during visits to both islands recently, writes The Daily Herald. WICSU/PSU President Henrietta Doran-York said the union’s membership related many grievances including claims that their rights were being trampled upon …

The conclusions of the Caribbean Netherlands Evaluation Committee were mostly a confirmation for Saba Commissioner Chris Johnson that the island and its government were right in their statements about the Dutch public entity status. “Everyone knows that these conclusions were coming. We have been giving off the signals for a …

The public entity status of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba has brought much disappointment, and the balance after five years is not favourable, concluded the Caribbean Netherlands Evaluation Committee in its report that was presented in The Hague on Monday. A widely felt disappointment predominates on the three islands. This …

Committee for evaluation of the constitutional structure of the Caribbean Netherlands Joined together for five years: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and the European Netherlands A lot has changed on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba since 10 October 2010. A great deal of time, money and energy has been invested both …

On 10-10-2015 the Korps Politie Caribisch Nederland, KPCN, celebrates its fifth anniversary. After five years of existence this is both a moment to reflect and also a moment to gaze upon the future. This past year there have been a number of evaluations, aimed both at the police organization specifically as …

Several healthcare workers of Saba Health Care Foundation (SHCF) and Benevolent Foundation Saba (BFS) received the annual flu shot for 2015 this week, writes The Daily Herald. More employees of both organizations will receive the flu shot in the next couple of days. Every year in October and November, SHCF …

The Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) in The Netherlands has been working to improve the seismological monitoring on Saba. In the past few months, four seismometers were installed and will be used for monitoring and interpretation of seismic activity on the island. This information is particularly useful considering the island’s …

5200 flight movements took place from and to the Caribbean Netherlands in the second quarter of 2015. Compared to the year-earlier period this is an increase of more than 8 percent. The largest airport of the Caribbean Netherlands, Bonaire, shows an increase of 20 percent to 3000 flight movements. The …

Longer maternity leave for women in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, and a fast, affordable ferry service between the Windward Islands – Member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament Roelof van Laar of the Labour Party PvdA brought up these two points during the handling of the draft …

The units that form the island’s disaster management apparatus or the Emergency Support Functions (ESF groups) held a series of training exercises this week. The training was held under the guidance and expertise of Paul Martens of the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) of the Fire Department in St. Maarten. …

Caribisch Netwerk reports that the Executive Council in Statia sticks to their point of view that the instruction given by The Netherlands to put the island under financial and administrative monitoring, is imposed unjustly. This became apparent at a hearing, which was held in the presence of senior officials of the Ministry of …

With the continued lack of rainfall that has resulted in one of the longest droughts in recent memory, The Executive Council of The Public Entity Saba has decided to increase the emergency water subsidy. The subsidy, which was introduced in August, will go up from the current two cents per …

~ Plasterk on the fifth anniversary of 10-10-10 ~ By Suzanne Koelega. The construction of the Dutch Kingdom is not etched in stone. No constellation is for that matter, but changing the constellation every five years is undesirable. Dutch Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Ronald Plasterk said this …

Dutch passports and ID cards in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba will become slightly cheaper as of January 1, 2016, the Kingdom Council of Ministers decided on Friday, writes The Daily Herald. Youngsters in the three Dutch public entities will be paying more than US $2 less for their new …