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 …

In Q3 2022, consumer goods and services on Saba rose from 8.2 percent in Q2 to 9.7 percent in Q3 2022. The rising prices of food, electricity and motor fuels were the main cause of the inflation increase on the island. Eggs more expensive on Bonaire and Saba In Q2, …

A lot has changed over the past 2 years when it comes to youth care on the BES islands. Youth care now falls under the program directorate of the ministry of VWS, Care and Youth Caribbean Netherlands (ZJCN). Maideline Martijn, Head of Youth at ZJCN, explains the structure of Youth …

While preparatory work for the new harbor project at Black Rocks continues, it was announced that the first phase of upgrading the existing Fort Bay harbor will start in January 2023. Once the new harbor at Black Rocks is constructed, the Fort Bay harbor will remain in use as a …

Are you finding it difficult to budget in these financially trying times when all prices have gone up? Are you having trouble finding a balance between the frustrations of living from paycheck to paycheck and planning ahead? This reality for many on Saba will be the focus of a budget …