Saba News News and Information from Saba Island, Dutch Caribbean

On Tuesday, the 1st of February, the police station received a number of calls at around 7:40 PM in which someone coughed and became short of breath, after which the connection was broken. When they tried to call the number back according to the existing protocol, there was no connection. …

State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen of Kingdom Relations will pay a working visit to Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba from 10 to 24 February. During this introductory visit, the State Secretary wants to be informed about matters that are important for the islands, such as livelihood …

Saba’s Executive Council on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 sent a letter to Dutch State Secretary of Fiscal Affairs and Tax Department Marnix van Rij in which it objected to the new tax measures per January 1, 2022 that are adversely affecting people’s income. In the letter to Van Rij, a …

Welcome to the Healthy Lifestyle Saba Facebook page. Healthy Lifestyle Saba will be an informative and educational Facebook page from the Public Health Department, that the whole community of Saba can use as a trusted and official source of information on living a healthy lifestyle. Healthy Lifestyle Saba is an …

On January 1st, 2021, Saba implemented a single-use plastic ban. This ban prohibits the sale or use of plastic bags, plastic single-use plates, single-use plastic containers, plastic utensils, and Styrofoam containers. Bioplastics are also banned. Although sourced from sustainable materials, they are still challenging to break down. By avoiding the …

Brawl On Saturday, the 29th of January, the police station received a report about a fight in Windwardside on Saba around 01:25 AM. An ambulance also had to come to the scene because one of the people involved had become ill. The police were forced to fire a warning shot …

The Queen Wilhelmina Library (QWL) in collaboration with the Saba Comprehensive School (SCS) will be hosting a comprehensive entrepreneurship workshop for students starting next week. The workshop, designed to encourage and enhance the skills of Saba’s young entrepreneurs, will provide participants with the knowledge and skill required to be a …

From February 7 to 12, 2022, a Team of the National Ombudsman and the Children’s Ombudsman will be back on Saba and St. Eustatius for consultations, and residents may drop by free of charge during visiting hours to file any complaints they may have regarding (government) agencies. Due to COVID …

Five weeks after Saba moved to the coro­navirus alert level three due to an increase in the number of persons who tested positive for the dis­ease, the public entity Saba scaled down to alert level two from 6:00pm on Friday, January 28. Saba does not have any positive cases of …

New Dutch State Secretary of Fiscality and the Tax Department Marnix van Rij will have to explain the sudden tax hike in Bonaire, St. Eusta­tius and Saba to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. The Second Chamber’s Permanent Committee of Finance during a proce­dural meeting on Wednes­day, January 26, approved …

Today marks five weeks since we moved to alert level three. I want to commend the community for your commitment to the measures that came with it and taking the necessary precautions and personal responsibility—also much thanks to our Public Health Department. We are all in this together, and our …

Although the COVID restrictions continued to affect international travel in 2021, it was still busy at the borders of the Caribbean Netherlands. In the past year, many people traveled to or from Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire. The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Koninklijke Marechaussee, KMar) is responsible for border control and …

The securing of the legal right of residents of the six Dutch Caribbean islands to have a current account at a bank in the Netherlands is a step closer with the submitting of a law pro­posal to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. On Wednesday, Member of the Second …

Children on Saba between the age of 5 and 11 will be receiving a COVID-19 vaccination next Tuesday, February 1. The vaccines arrived from the Netherlands on Tuesday, January 25. Children will receive an age-appropriate dose of the vaccine made by Pfizer/BioNTech. The vaccine is the same as the one …

The Showroom Intensive Horticulture Pilot has completed construction and seedling trials have started. Jim Garza of Gezondheid Farms, the public-private initiative to develop agriculture at Rendez-Vous, aims to have the first round of crops harvested by end of February. “We will be providing a spring salad mix in a 1/2lb …