Dave Levenstone (second left) with WICSU/PSU labour union board members. Dave Levenstone will return as board member of the Windward Islands Civil Servants Union/Private Sector Union (WICSU/PSU). Levenstone submitted his resignation several months ago because of his participation as a candidate in the island Council election of March 15, 2023. …

Ministry of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations senior policy advisor Hendrik Kats will be visiting Saba June 7-9. He will meet with the Executive and Island Councils and also wishes to meet with interested parties from the public, the business sector and non-governmental organisations. Kats will hold a general information …

Saba’s Electoral College on Tuesday, May 30th voted for the Dutch First Chamber. All five votes went to Labor Party (PvdA) Senator Jeroen Recourt. PvdA and the green left party GroenLinks have combined their forces in the Senate. Three of the five Members of the Electoral College, Elsa Peterson, Rolando …

National Om­budsman Reinier van Zutphen, together with the Children’s Om­budsman, will publish his vision this year on the poverty issue in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. The National Ombudsman an­nounced this in the 2022 annual report which he presented to Chairperson of the Dutch Sec­ond Chamber of Parliament Vera Bergkamp …

The Dutch Sec­ond Chamber of Parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to work out a financial scenario for the possible introduction of the social minimum for Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba per January 1, 2024. The motion was submitted by Member of Parliament (MP) Jorien of the Democratic Party D66 during …

Also in 2022, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba OM BES was faced with many challenges, in­cluding the investigation and prosecution of criminal offences, in which the im­pact for society as a whole and for victims in particular are an important touchstone, said Chief Prosecu­tor Walter Kupers …

Approximately fifty per­sons from the Roman Catholic Church on St. Eustatius travelled to Saba on Thursday, May 18, for an inter-island Ascension Family Fun Day. The day also served as a fundraiser for the Roman Catholic Church on Statia. The group was warmly wel­comed by the parish priest, Malusca Baker and …

In keeping with the procedures outlined in the Rules of Order for the Is­land Council of the public entity Saba, the faction of the Windward Islands Peo­ple’s Movement (WIPM) informed Island Governor Jonathan Johnson, in his capacity as chairman of the Island Council, in a letter of Wednesday, May 17, …

Why are the in­comes lower in the Caribbean Netherlands and how can the coor­dination of policy be improved for the islands so the money that The Hague spends can be more effec­tive? Regional journalists, including the correspondents of The Daily Herald and the Amigoe newspaper from Curacao, on Monday brain­stormed and …

Two mo­tions were submitted in the Dutch Second Chamber of Parliament on Wednesday to speed up the introduc­tion of a social minimum in Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba. Members of Parliament (MPs) Jorien Wuite of the Democratic Party D66 and Kauthar Bouchallikh of the green left party Groen­Links each presented …