Columns of smoke drifted into the village of St. John’s on Thursday night as a fire erupted on Saba’s dump. Emergency workers were busy trying to contain the blaze at 9:00pm Thursday. The cause of the fire was still unknown as of press time, but dry weather has prevailed in …

Opposition party JA21 is calling for transparency regarding projects aimed at raising awareness about the Netherlands’ history of slavery. Member of Parliament Joost Eerdmans has submitted additional questions to the government concerning the Dutch contribution to these initiatives. He also argued that any unused funds from the 200 million euros …

Saba’s leadership team concluded productive meetings with Dutch government counterparts this week, demonstrating tangible progress on the Saba Package development framework and Black Rocks Harbor infrastructure project during steering committee sessions on June 14.   Strategic Review of Saba Package Chaired by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), …

The Dutch government has requested more time to respond to parliamentary questions regarding child abuse on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (BES islands), citing delays in gathering the nec­essary information. The same delay applies to questions about crimi­nal cases involving minors across the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom, including the autonomous …

Utilities providers from the so-called BES Islands (Bo­naire, St. Eustatius and Saba) gathered in Bonaire last week for a series of meetings with the Nether­lands Authority for Con­sumers & Markets (ACM), to focus on regulations and tariff policy for the coming years. Representatives from Sta­tia Utility Company Stuco, Saba Electric …

In its newly published advisory report ti­tled “Together Towards Bet­ter: Recommendations for National Policy on the Physi­cal Domain in the Caribbean Netherlands”, the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure RLI empha­sizes that Bonaire, St. Eusta­tius and Saba (BES islands) are often overlooked by the Dutch government when it comes to …

Eddie van Marum of the farmers’ party BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) has been nominated by the outgoing Schoof Cabinet to succeed Zsolt Szabó as State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitisation. Szabó stepped down from the post in the first week of June. Van Marum currently holds the position of State Secretary …

On the morning of Wednesday June 11th, the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard received an emergency call from the Harbor Master in Saba requesting urgent assistance for a medical situation at sea. Coast Guard crew members stationed in Saba, immediately launched their Metal Shark vessel and proceeded to the dive boat …

Dutch military forces in the Carib­bean will carry out a hur­ricane emergency response exercise on the Windward Islands June 14-20, working closely with local safety and emergency response part­ners on St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. The goal of the training is to ensure that military personnel can be deployed …

The Dutch government has launched a public Internet consultation on proposed rules for the repayment of sickness and accident benefits that were wrongly received under the Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (BES) Sickness Insurance Act and the BES Acci­dent Insurance Act. These laws provide financial support to employees in Bonaire, …