The Public Health Department Saba announces significant progress in enhancing community mental health wellbeing, highlighted by the successful completion of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on June 9-10, 2025. This initiative demonstrates Public Health’s strategic commitment to fostering mental health awareness and building a collaborative, sustainable support framework by …

A delegation from Saba, including Island Governor Jonathan Johnson, Island Council members, and the Island Registrar, joined over 3,000 municipal leaders at the 100th Annual Congress of the Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG). Held under the theme “Together We Make the Future,” the milestone event brought together mayors, legislators, council members, …

Representatives from the Juancho E. Irausquin Airport (SABA) recently attended the 7th Annual CARIBAVIA Conference in St. Barthélemy, engaging in critical discussions on aviation connectivity, sustainability, and tourism development across the Caribbean. The event, hosted by the Government of Saint-Barthélemy and the St. Barth Tourism Committee, brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and investors to address key challenges and opportunities in …

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 …

In a proud and symbolic milestone for the island of Saba, a newly commissioned Search and Rescue (SAR) vessel was officially transferred to the Public Entity Saba during a ceremony held at Habbeké Shipyard in Hoorn, the Netherlands. The vessel, named Prinses Catharina-Amalia in honor of Her Royal Highness, was …

The KPCN reports that on Wednesday, June 11th, at approximately 9:30 AM, the central control room received a report of a diver who had fallen ill near Saba. Police and ambulance services were immediately dispatched to Fort Bay Harbor in anticipation of the vessel’s arrival, which was transporting the individual. …