Congratulations to Saba Cares and the St. Eustatius Health Care Foundation on joining the Dutch Caribbean Hospital Alliance! Your commitment to collaboration and enhancing healthcare services in the region is truly commendable. This partnership will undoubtedly strengthen the medical community and benefit many lives. Keep up the great work!

What a wonderful idea for the residents of Saba. The schedule is great. Hopefully this will reduce traffic and Saba’s friendly Taxi drivers will still be in demand for their important services.

Without having visited Saba, these “expert researchers” could have been writing exactly the same!
What a waste of money to send these “researchers” around!

Is this new form required for residents of Saba who are just passing through the St. Maarten airport on their way home to Saba ??

Saba has many educated snowbird residents who start returning to our island in the November to January time frame. And stay through April/May. We could provide teaching in our major subjects, tutoring and/or assistance in classrooms. Just appoint a Liaison person to catalog the need in each classroom and match it up with a willing snowbird. I can teach Math and business computer skills.

How amusing that on the new (2024) government wifi initiative “publicroam” in the dropdown list of countries there is no “BES Islands”, there is no “Dutch Caribbean”, there is no “Caribisch Nederland” – the only option is “Netherlands Antilles”. Wasn’t this replaced 14 years ago?

I recall, Saba announced with pride about installing more fiber. Then the Dutch government denied Sabans the use of airwaves and satellites providers, like Starlink.
Now, an article about the expense of fiber.

Is this just preparatory news to soften the blow of how much that fiber project will be costing the people?

Air is free. Fiber is not.

If only there was a satellite provider that provided high speed worldwide internet to remote places at an affordable cost….oh thats right…there is….Perhaps Approve Starlink for use in Saba!

Here is a crazy thought. License STARLINK! No subsidy needed, $80 for quality Internet… Let the local companies resell the equipment, do installations and process payments. They still make their money and keep staff, but the rest of us win with better internet.

Why then all that pride about glass-fibre cables on Saba?