On the 15th of June, 2023, Claudia Toet will start at the Belastingdienst in the European Netherlands and, after a training period in the European Netherlands, will formally take over the position as Director of the Belastingdienst Caribisch Nederland from the current director Anneke van den Breemer on the 1st …

The Sacred Heart Primary School on Saba this summer will have a new principal. Ildefon Verberne will be present at the school on June 1, 2023, and will officially take over from the current principal, Hortence Promes, on July 1, 2023. Verberne (60) currently lives in the Netherlands and has …

Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) will visit Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten from April 2nd  to April 5th. The visit will revolve around the Ministerial Four-country Consultation for Education, Culture and Science, and the commemoration of slavery on the islands. Minister Dijkgraaf is the coordinating minister for …

Per January 1, 2027, the number of Island Coun­cil members for St. Eustatius will be increased from five to 11 and in Saba from five to nine. The number of commissioners for the two islands will go from two to three per that same date. Dutch State Secretary for King­dom Relations …

The new Saba Island Council 2023-2027 was installed on Wednesday, March 29. Five new members of the Island Council, Saskia Matthew, Hemmie van Xanten, Rolando Wilson, Elsa Peterson and Vito Charles, were sworn in, as well as two new members of the Executive Council, Commissioners Bruce Zagers and Eviton Heyliger. …

Starting this week, therefore, a campaign has been launched to inform the population about the Community Officer, but also to inform about, among other things, the duties of the Community Officer and in what cases and how to contact them. The Community officers are also going to profile themselves individually …

In 2022, altogether 183.7 thousand tourists flew to the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands. The number of tourist arrivals by air on Bonaire rose by 55.6 percent relative to the previous year and exceeded the level of 2019, the last year before the coronavirus crisis. Inbound tourism by air on …

The Dutch government is prepared if another disaster was to hap­pen in the Dutch Caribbean. That is the conclusion of the policy evaluation of article 8 of the Kingdom Relations budget, Reconstruction Windward Islands. The objective of the policy assessment of article 8 was to provide an answer to the question …

Carl Buncamper of the Windward Islands People’s Movement (WIPM) held his farewell speech in the last meeting of the outgoing Island Council on Tuesday, March 28. Buncamper has been a member of the Saba Island Council for 16 years. Buncamper ran in six elections. He participated in five Island Council …

Members of the Department of Community Development, the Public Health Department, Care and Youth Caribbean Netherlands (ZJCN) and Mental Health Caribbean (MHC) last week took part in a training provided by Junny Josephina, director of Krusada from Bonaire. Krusada is the organization that runs the women’s shelter on Bonaire. The …