Under the instruction of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), Glenn Thodé (former Island Governor Bonaire) and Jacques van Eck (former State Council at the Council of State) are currently exploring the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation for Bonaire, Saba, and St. Eustatius. This is being done because …

A delegation of the Culture Department of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) visited Saba on Monday, October 24, and Tuesday, October 25 to meet with the Public Entity Saba and with the local stakeholders. The Public Entity Saba was one of the parties that signed the …

Coordinator domestic violence and child abuse Mildred Rijhiner, social worker Gideon Wilson, and senior social worker and policy advisor Lucrecia Paulina are visiting different islands in the Dutch Kingdom for an exchange of expertise in the area of domestic violence and child abuse. Rijhiner, who is part of the No …

How to create a post on social media that draws attention and generates business, the does, and don’ts, and the three golden rules of social media. Entrepreneurs in the Saba hospitality and tourism sector learned about this during a workshop on Thursday, October 20, hosted by the Saba Tourist Bureau. …

Parents and caregivers of children aged 3 to 17 with intensive care needs in the Caribbean Netherlands are eligible for an allowance of $1,437 gross. This concession has been pledged by Minister Schouten (poverty policy, participation and pensions) to compensate for the structural double-child benefit that will be introduced once …

Effective November 1, 2022, the Windward Islands Bank branch in Saba and St. Eustatius (Statia) will continue as a branch of Maduro & Curiel’s Bank (Bonaire) N.V. WIB has a regular service branch in Statia, but on Saba there is only an ATM machine that is fully paid by the …

A delegation of the Ministry of Public Health, Wellbeing and Sport VWS and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM visited Saba on Wednesday, October 19. The four-member delegation, three persons from the Ministry of VWS and one person from the RIVM, came to Saba for one …

The central government intends to set a social minimum by 2024: State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen Speech is in Dutch with English subtitles RCN

In the first six months of 2022, the number of visitor arrivals by air on  Saba was one and a half times as high as in the same period last year. At the same time, air visitor arrivals on Bonaire tripled; the number was 10 percent up in the first …

  On the 19th of October 2022, during the Sector Consultation between trade unions (ABVO, STrAF, ACOM and NAPB) and the Director of Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland, Jan Helmond, an agreement was reached on a supplement to the current employment conditions. It was agreed that from the 1st of January, 2023, all …