During the members meeting on May 11th this year in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the Dutch Caribbean part of the Ministry of Education (RCN / OCW) was accepted as an extraordinary member of the CANTA (Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies). The regular members of the CANTA are members of CARICOM. …

“Think positive, feel good” is the theme of an ongoing free public workshop, facilitated by Suchita Peeters, in the Queen Wilhelmina Library in The Bottom, reports The Daily Herald. This is a follow up of the “I love my body” programme. The workshop started on April 28 and will end …

The Daily Herald reports that RBC Royal Bank introduced an extra layer of protection for local customers with an ATM/debit card. Today, May 21, the bank is blocking international transactions for all such cards, meaning customers can now only use them in Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Maarten and Saba. “With …

The setting up of a work group for sustainable energy will be proposed at the June 16 Kingdom Conference at the request of Member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament Wassila Hachchi of the Democratic Party D66, writes The Daily Herald. Dutch Minister of Home Affairs and Kingdom …

The policy of the Dutch Government remains unchanged: residents of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba in need of specialist medical care will keep being referred to hospitals in Guadeloupe and Colombia. Dutch Minister of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sports Edith Schippers sees no reason to reconsider the choices that were …

Monday and Tuesday, May 18th and 19th, all island representatives (Island-Governors, Commissioners, Island Secretaries, Registrars and Island Council members) of the Caribbean Netherlands came together in St. Maarten. There they discussed at length with each other, exchanged knowledge and experiences and followed work sessions in the context of administrative development. …

The Attorney- General has issued new guidelines to the Prosecutor’s Offices of Curaçao, St. Maarten and the Caribbean Netherlands regarding “robbery with violence”, writes The Daily Herald. According to the new guideline, which goes into effect as of June 1, if a suspect commits extortion or robbery with violence within …

The Executive Council of The Public Entity Saba and the Saba United People Labor Union Association(SUPLUA) have agreed last week to form a technical committee to look into the consequences of the salary structure that was introduced in October of last year. The new salary structure went into effect after …

Rijksdienst Dutch Caribbean and P-Direkt are offering 15 new jobs to create more employment on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. The 15 vacancies for contact centre assistant are open as of today. P-Direkt stands for delivering an efficient and high-quality payroll and personnel administration for the 120,000 civil servants (of …

For over a week, students of Saba University School of Medicine (SUSOM) have been receiving e-mails and I-messages from an unidentified individual, who often impersonates as one of the deans of the school, reports The Daily Herald. The first false e-mail was sent May 9 with the sender’s name “Pether …

The Public Health Department of Saba now has a brand new Facebook page. Visit this link to read the introduction and to like this new page to receive its updates. The link is also available in our Saba-Online section. My name is Koen Hulshof, I am a Public Health Doctor. …

The Daily Herald writes that the four countries of the Dutch Kingdom are planning to sign a cooperation agreement in the area of competition at the Kingdom Conference in Curaçao on June 16 in anticipation of a Dutch Caribbean freetrade zone. The website “Doing Business in the Kingdom” will be …

The 14-member Hector-team of Caribbean Netherlands Police Force is still investigating the homicide of 24-year-old-student Kavya Guda from the United States in Saba, writes The Daily Herald. The lifeless body of the student of Saba University School of Medicine was found in her apartment in The Bottom on April 15. …

The on-going fourteenth St. Martin/St. Maarten Annual Regional Tradeshow (SMART), dubbed the most important tradeshow of the Northeastern Caribbean, hosted its main day of activities at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort and Casino yesterday, May 14. Although attendance was not as high as the 2014 event, which boasted one of the …

Several days of activities were held leading up to and on Nurses Day on Saba, writes The Daily Herald. At the centre of the celebrations were nurses of Henry C. Every Home for the Aged and A.M. Edwards Medical Center. The kick-off was on Friday, May 8, with a pre- …