St. Maarten recorded six new COVID-19 cases on Thursday pushing the total number of cases to date to 63 and the number of active cases (persons currently battling the illness) to 41. Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Silveria Jacobs said in a national address on …

Thursday, April 16: Island Governor Jonathan Johnson updates on Covid-19 status When downloading, please be patient if you have a slow internet connection. GIS Saba

  We are living in unprecedented times. For months we have watched as the virus called Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in countries, communities, and families far from our shores. We watched as borders closed and citizens were asked to stay home to protect not only themselves but also the most …

Bonaire has a first case of the Coronavirus. This was made public by Island Governor Edison Rijna in a press conference this afternoon. The person who tested positive for the virus has mild symptoms and is not seen as being a high-risk case. “The positive result is a conclusion of …

The Dutch Government in March 2020 decided to implement a package with emergency measures for the Caribbean Netherlands which are aimed at keeping people employed and to offer financial support to employees, self-employed persons and businesses that are facing acute income issues. The ‘Temporary subsidy arrangement wage costs and income …

Sadly, Covid-19 reached our beautiful Saba as well. Our wonderful new branch manager Ms. Melanie Marks and the branch president Gerald Simmons – de Jong helped the volunteers yesterday who have been putting themselves on the front line in delivering groceries. Since our island governor implemented much needed stay at home …

St. Maarten recorded four additional positive COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases up to 57. In giving some good news Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) said an additional seven persons have now recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 12. …

Bruno Magras gave details in an interview with Martinique La 1re, Tuesday, April 14, on the progress of the screening project for the entire population. He said the first of four test machines was due “next week”. The other three must arrive “the first half of May”, says the President …

Public Health Department explains the procedures and challenges in corona testing. It is a large file (6MB) for downloading, so please be patient if you have a slow internet connection. GIS Saba

The number of active coronavirus COV­ID-19 cases on the French side increased by one again on Tuesday, regional heath authority ARS reported. This brings active cases up to seventeen. The latest case has been confined to home in isola­tion. There are now 12 cases at home and five in hos­pital, …

The number of positive coro­navirus COVI D-19 cases in Dutch St. Maarten went up by one on Tues­day, bringing the total number of positive cases to 53 and active cases to 39. According to figures from Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, as of April 14 the total num­ber of persons in …

By Marvin Hokstam Being kept out of political and government decision-making processes could cause the black community of the Netherlands to be hit hard by COVID-19, the disease that is caused by the coronavirus. The media, the education system and the public health services will fall short, a report from …

A roughly estimated 5,500 persons are expected to file a request for the temporary subsidy arrangement for wage cost and income loss for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba within the next three months. Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Wouter Koolmees recently stated this in response to questions from …

Tuesday, April 14: Address of Island Governor Jonathan Johnson on Covid-19 Lock-down. Please be patient during the download if you have a slow internet connection. GIS Saba  

Since the emergency regulation of SZW came into effect at the beginning of this month, requests have been received for more than two thousand persons on Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius. Half of these have already been paid out. In order to make this possible, employees of the RCN-unit SZW …