The Dutch Postcode Lottery’s (NPL) has just announced to continue supporting the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA) activities by donating €500k each year for the next five years. DCNA will use this money for projects to safeguard nature in the Dutch Caribbean by assisting the Protected Area Management Organizations on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, …

Saba artisans showcased their work to residents and visitors during an arts and crafts pop-up market on Friday, October 21 at the Saba Tourism Bureau. This was the first time this year an arts and crafts market was held on the deck at the Tourism Bureau in the Windwardside, and …

The congress that delegations from the islands will be attending in The Hague December 7-8 has as theme “Equality within the Kingdom” and will feature some 25 speakers and panellists. During the 32nd congress, organ­ised by Curaçao’s InterExpo or­ganisation, speakers and partici­pants in the panel discussions will share their thoughts …

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 …