Saba News News and Information from Saba Island, Dutch Caribbean

The number of coronavirus infec­tions registered on the six Dutch Caribbean islands grew last month. This was announced on June 3 by National Institute for Public Health and the Environ­ment RIVM in the Netherlands. In total, almost 5,000 positive test results were re­ported during May, about 1,000 more than in …

Public Notice The Central Committee of the Public Entity Saba hereby invites the general public to VIEW the live stream of the Public Central Committee meeting on the Saba Government Facebook page on Wednesday July 6th, 2022 at 10:00 am The agenda is as follows: Opening Approval of the agenda Approval of …

A large crowd of family, friends, and support­ers gathered at the Juan­cho Yrausquin Airport to welcome the three Saban participants of the Special Olympics Netherlands held in the Twente region June 10-12, on Tuesday evening. The Executive Council, also a part of the welcoming par­ty, invited the community to welcome …

Recently, the Members of the Executive and Island Councils were invited to a presentation of the first version of the Canon of Saba’s history. The draft Canon addresses cul­tural and historical subjects deemed by the community sufficiently necessary to be archived and made easily accessible to be transmitted to future generations, new …

On Saba on Monday afternoon the 13th of June, Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalization and island Commissioner Bruce Zagers signed the multi-year governing agreement “Saba Package 2.0”. This contains concrete agreements between Saba and the Kingdom on the further development of a sustainable and self-sufficient …

The central government in the Caribbean Netherlands regularly communicates with its citizens and wishes to know whether this could be done better or differently. Where this survey mentions the government of the Caribbean Netherlands, all departments and services of the central government of the Caribbean Netherlands are included, like the …

Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation, and Commissioner Bruce Zagers signed the multi-year administrative agreement “Saba Package 2.0”. This contains concrete agreements between Saba and the Central Government about the further development of a sustainable and self-sufficient Saba. To achieve this goal, the agreement includes 4 …

The Saba Bocce team traveled to the Netherlands to participate in the Special Olympics. They have been practicing every Friday for the competition and are ready to play! This is the first time this opportunity has been available and is a step in the right direction of making sports more …

‘Samenwerkende Fondsen voor het Caribisch deel van het Koninkrijk’ (SFC) is a collaborative funding initiative by 4 funding agencies in the Netherlands, catering to NGOs throughout the Dutch Caribbean, with a focus on social projects. Recently a new micro grant procedure has been implemented to meet NGO funding needs on …

On 9 July 2015, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations sent an overview to the Second Chamber and the public entities of Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba with a global breakdown of the income and expenditure per island in the Caribbean Netherlands. This overview showed that respectively 47.2%, …

Monday 2 May On Monday morning, the delegation traveled to Saba. The visit to Public Entity Saba (OLS) started immediately after arrival at the airport with a presentation by the Saba Electric Company SEC about Saba’s commitment to renewable energy. Currently, 30-40% of the electricity on Saba is sustainable (solar …

The Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten and of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba hereby informs the general public that there will be an opportunity for persons residing on Saba and Sint Eustatius to file their petitions in person. On June 15th 2022 from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 …

On the 9th of June 2022, the ministerial regulation will be published containing the new amounts for child benefit and assistance that the RCN-unit SZW will provide as of the 1st of July. As a result, families with children and those entitled to social relief who live independently will receive …

Alexandra van Huffelen, state secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation, and minister for Housing and Spatial Planning, Hugo de Jonge, will visit Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire from the 12th to the 18th of June. The minister and state secretary each have their own program, but in a number of …