The entrance of the PEP (Party for Progress, Equality and Prosperity into the island Council of Saba certainly is a sign of Change with Mr. Hemmie Van Xanten. The addition of change within the WIPM established Party embody by Ms. Elsa Peterson who ran a very Professional and Outstanding Campaign is also great and dynamic Change for Saba , Jewel most Precious in the Caribbean Sea!!! She studied International Law and Human Rights a great asset and enrichment to the the Saba island Council! I admired the way in which Ms. Elsa Peterson gave out a speech during her campaign of the historical facts of the Participation of the Netherlands in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the role that the Netherlands needs to play to redeem itself from this great Evil and Injustice towards people of African Descent in the Dutch Kingdom!!! The Dutch Government and Prime Minister Mark Rutte need to also pass Laws to protect Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands and in the Dutch Kingdom. Respect towards Race and Culture, Rich Or Poor, Black or White, Indian or Asian, Latino or Filippino, Immigrant or Not, Foreign or Native we all are One People and we all deserve an Equal Treatment!!! Saba also needs to grow, Tourism needs to be expanded!!! Enough of keeping Saba Small and Stagnant!!! Island Council Member Ms. Elsa Peterson also was Dynamic in stressing on the importance of Leadership!!! “The Leader is not only the one who manages a human group, but the one who knows how to lead it and straighten its crooked cells.” Dr. Jose Francisco Peña Gomez. I encourage all the five island Council Members of Saba to and the Two Commissioners Eviton Heyliger and Bruce Zagers to please stand up for Progress, Equality and Prosperity on Small Saba like the PEP Party!!! I close in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that!

Cristian Hassell Feliciano

Nice to hear this cooperation. Maybe they can cooperate also to realize that we can book on line extra luggage when we are traveling with KLM from Amsterdam to Saba. Now I can not book on line extra luggage by KLM.

The PEP Party has the Right solely to send it’s Party Leader to lead in the island Council. It sounds like someone is dubiously afraid of Hemmie Van Xanten!!! Let PEP handle it’s own affairs!!!

The votes have been counted, the results are known and the law then determines which candidates will receive a council seat.
In the case of PEP, it is very unreasonable that Simmons, J.J. with the amount of votes he received, is not one of them.
It would be to PEP’s credit if they changed that and gave Simmons the second council seat.
This can be achieved when, successively, Van Xanten, Holm, Every and Thielman decline a nomination, Simmons is then the next to be appointed.
It is that simple.

Will Saskia Matthew become a new member of the Island Council or will she keep her job as a civil servant?
The combination of both is prohibited.

Congratulations! Saba DOET makes a beautiful island even more beautiful!

Could olive trees grow decently at lower altitudes on Saba with low maintenance once the initial period of needing to water and otherwise care intensively for the olive trees has passed?
If so, how can Saba get seeds or saplings free of invasive insects to get olive trees growing on Saba?
Could okra grow decently near the new trees once the trees (whichever type of trees that might be) get going and provide enough soil and moisture around them?
Can goats be trained from a young age to eat coralita leaves and flowers?

I have been growing fruit trees, shrubs, and vines since my husband and I came to live on Saba four years ago. Sharing these plants has been a great pleasure.

Each island needs a permanent notary as the current notary is so overwhelmed with work, cases cannot be addressed in a timely manner. Months go by before the notary can even see a client and then even longer before she can handle the case, which makes it close to a year before anything can be done. Not acceptable. She also is so busy she can’t even answer emails or phone calls. Very unprofessional. Either another notary needs to be appointed to assist her or each island needs their own notary. As is, this is only a slight better improvement than our previous situation of no notary. No one should have to wait a year or more to have notarial services provided.

And what about the “goat removal project”? Goats eat the produce from the gardens. But the Goat Removal Project” is on hold already for several months. What happened with the financing for this project from The Hague?

This seems a typical action from a hypocritical government ahead of Election Day: support some selected residents and to hell with the others.

Great initiative to feed the roaming goats. How stupid can you be?