Amerindian artefacts dug up by archaeologists on Saba in the past three decades will be returned to the island in the near future. The Daily Herald writes about this. The objects, mostly fragments of pottery, stone, shell and bones will be stored at the Saba Heritage Centre in the course …

Press release from Communicatie K.P.C.N. On Monday, December 16th, around 9:30 AM, the police received notice that an office across from the hospital in the nameless street in the Bottom had been broken into. Cash money has been taken. The case is being investigated.

The Daily Herald writes that the law proposal to restrict the registration of people from Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten in the Netherlands will be annulled if the partners in the Kingdom were to agree on a law to regulate the movement of persons within the Kingdom. The initiative taker …

Winair started its new route to Santo Domingo on Monday, writes The Daily Herald, a day after the airline started servicing another new route, Tortola, as part of its expansion into the greater Caribbean. In the planning for months, Winair hopes to fill successfully a void in Caribbean airlift by …

Fifty youths have been named as members of the first Kingdom Youth Parliament (KYP). They will partake in a number of events taking place between May 19 and May 23, 2014, both as individuals and in teams. During this period, the youths, who have been selected from all corners of …

The Saba United People’s Labour Union Association was officially launched at the Ambulance Department Friday, as writes the Daily Herald. President of the newly established union Ludwina Lucas-Charles welcomed all present and explained that the union was now officially established after being legalised by a notary. The board of the …

Catholic church cardinal Wim Eijk has made a call in the Telegraaf for people to come clean about the sexual abuse of children by church officials. Eijk made the appeal two years after the publication of a major report into abuse in Catholic institutions. The cardinal noted in his appeal …

St Maarten Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunications Ted Richardson proudly witnessed the landing of the Saba, Statia Cable System (SSCS) telecommunications cable at the landing point (beach manhole) operated by St. Maarten International Telecommunications Services SMITCOMS on Great Bay Beach on Friday morning. Richardson said he was …

The Daily Herald writes that transfer of shares, giving St. Maarten 100 per cent ownership of the utilities company, took place at Sonesta Maho Beach Resort last week Friday. Present for the transfer were Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams, Governor Eugene Holiday, MPs Heyliger and Roy Marlin, former MP from St. …

PvdA Jeroen Dijsselbloem is elected politician of the year by the parliamentary press. It was the eleventh time that the press kept the election. The Minister of Finance won, D66 leader Alexander Pechtold had the second place and Christian Union leader Arie Slob the third. The youth panel of the …

After the letter from minister Plasterk to the parliament and the criticism of the General Audit Chamber on 28 November related to the procedures concerning fiber optic cable in the Caribbean Netherlands, members of the VVD (Liberal Democratic Party) expressed their concerns  about the higher price tag for the construction. …

The Daily Herald writes that the Chamber of Commerce St. Eustatius and Saba thanked the many voters that turned up to cast their vote on Thursday, for a member of the Chamber of Commerce. The results are as follows: Koert Kerkhoff – 23 votes, Koos Sneek – 46 votes and …

The police, KPCN, reports that on Wednesday, December 11th, around 7:38 PM, a one-sided collision took place on the Fort Bay Road where the road had to be shut off. A light blue Toyota pickup with registration V-40 came to lie on its side and was leaking oil / fuel …

DutchNews reports that education minister Jet Bussemaker is to revise her plans to replace student grants with loans and has confirmed the new system will not come into effect in 2014 but in 2015. The cabinet does not have majority support for the plans in the upper house of parliament …

Since September this year is Paula Klomp the new community officer on Saba. She will hold this position for a period of two years. The community officer is the single contact point on Saba between the citizen, entrepreneur and network partners. This means that the community officer forms part of …