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The Cabinet has approved the Housing Act BES. This legislative proposal aims to facilitate the construction of more affordable social housing on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba by providing housing foundations on the islands with better access to financing. The proposal underwent public internet consultation this past summer and will …

Collision On Thursday, the 5th of February, at around 1:15 PM, the central control room received a repor tof a collision in which a pickup truck had collided with another pickup truck parked along the road. It turned out that the pickup truck was traveling toward the harbor and moved …

Eric van den Burg of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy VVD has been put forward as the in­tended State Secretary for King­dom Relations, a nomination that has been met with concern in the Dutch Caribbean. On the islands, there had been an expectation that the portfolio would go …

The outgo­ing Schoof Cabinet will not meet its earlier commit­ment to keep energy tariffs on Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba (so-called BES islands) in line with those in European Netherlands during its remaining term. The news follows acknowl­edgment that the Dutch Ministry of Climate and Green Growth has insuf­ficient budgetary …

The new Dutch government sees many opportu­nities for cooperation with the Caribbean part of the kingdom. This is evident from the coalition agreement presented by the lead­ers of D66, CDA and WD. The parties have a relatively strong focus on security and sus­tainable development, mention­ing the establishment of a Carib­bean …