The Welfare and Society Directorate launched the Dare2C­are Safe Statia campaign to bring more awareness on domestic violence at the Mega Musical Experi­ence in February. This was followed by the Kas Sigur training, arranged by the Ministry of Justice and Se­curity for Saba and Statia professionals on Statia last week. …

The website BES-Reporter announced that this afternoon, the Government Agreement between The Hague and Bonaire was signed by State Secretary Raymond Knops on behalf of The Netherlands and the Island Governor, Edison Rijna, on behalf of Bonaire. The signing of the agreement was made possible by the approval by the …

The First Chamber of the Dutch Par­liament has proposed to the Dutch government to implement a temporary al­ternative in anticipation of the establishing of a social minimum for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba in 2020. The Senate’s Permanent Committee for Kingdom Relations on Tuesday de­cided during a procedural meeting to …

The Netherlands will actively interfere with the government on Bonaire. A specially appointed ‘program manager administrative agreement’ will reorganize the financial management and the official organization. According to State Secretary Raymond Knops of Kingdom Relations, the current capabilities of local government are far below par. The new administrative agreement covers …

Artist Heleen Cor­net has been living on sev­eral islands of the Dutch Caribbean for forty years. During those years she has made thousands of paint­ings, around four hundred of which are shown on a hundred pages of her new book titled “Artist on Saba – 40 years, 400 paintings”. The …

In October, the directors of Gwendoline van Putten School in St. Eustatius, Scholengemeenschap Bo­naire SGB and Saba Com­prehensive School signed a collaboration agreement to proceed together as a Tech­nique Region. These three schools join hands to make youngsters acquainted with technique and to encourage more stu­dents to choose a technique …

Of the three Caribbean islands, Saba had the lowest income inequality in 2016. According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the distribution of incomes was most uneven on St Eustatius, whilst Bonaire was in the middle range. The disparities in standardised disposable income – income adjusted for differences in household size and …

Coralita: if nothing is done, biodiversity may be gone, that is the winning slogan from a contest held by the Coralita Girls during Science Cafe hosted by Ca­ribbean Netherlands Sci­ence Institute (CNSI) last week Thursday. Botanist Elizabeth Haber and social scientist Jetske Vaas, jointly known as The Coralita Girl, presented …

The Dutch Caribbean Police Force has received several reports of fraud via the internet in recent months. On the internet there are several advertisements of good and affordable cars from the United States. The cars are offered for sale at a good price. In the advertisement, all information about the …

Months of planning, scheduling and preparation culminated past Friday in the start of the installation of Saba Electric Company’s (SEC’s) second solar park project. With a 1.142 Megawatt peak (MWp) solar park already in place, this second park is a continued effort by SEC to increase its shares in renewable …

The Caribbean Vocational and Trade Schools network (C-VET) is organizing the second conference about vocational and trade school education. This second conference is the result of the initial conference that was held on Sint Maarten in October 2016. During the conference on Sint Maarten, the desire was expressed to continue …

The green left party GroenLinks in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament wants the Dutch government to make one million euros annually available for the Nature Trust Fund to protect the fragile nature in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. GroenLinks also called for a Shark Action Plan. Members of …

On October 23th and 25th, representatives of the school boards, management and staff spoke respectively in Bonaire and St. Eustatius during a conference on collective labor agreement, the content of it and employee participation. The education union Simabo was also present on Bonaire. The conference highlighted points for improvement, which …

November is Internship Month for the Saba Comprehensive School’s Vocational and upper-forms PraktijkOnderijs (PrO) students. They will be interning at various organizations around the island throughout the month of November 2018. The students will start their internships on Friday, November 2nd and continue until Friday, November 30th for a total …

The new employers’ premiums for the Caribbean Netherlands have been published in the ‘Staatscourant’. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) will lower the premiums from 18.4% to 13.4% effective January 1st, 2019. This way, the wages can increase and the purchasing power could go up. Through the structural …