It sounds as if the author is not that sure anymore about his own identity. Saban identity has any way a great variety of features and habits.
Defining Saban culture is not easy because of that many different roots even when families have been living here since 1640.
Making a map of cultural history is difficult, as I noticed when starting the website that is under construction but that already can be found at: https://saba-culturalheritage.com

Great Amazing, Awesome Job organizing this extraordinary wonderful Cultural Parade on the island of Saba it honors and justifies all cultures of wonderful people living on Saba from other countries this November 2024, Ms. Miranda!!! Hi five!!!!! You deserve a Nobel Prize!!! This Is a significant reminiscence of of the historical Saban Cultural pride. Thanks for your remarkable enthusiasm in doing this!!!!

Cristian Hassell Feliciano
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How many Sabans are without a job?

The government needs to add the mountain road to the list of areas for shooting goats. Most residents have experience the destructive behavior of these goats. As a home owner, it have been a constant battle with these goats. They destroy home gardens which is meant to help homeowners save money in the shops.

I support the government action in controlling these goats. The goat owners take no responsibility for the destruction from these goats. Some of us home owners that have outside gardens are fed-up

I love cultural awareness ! How about a visiting chamber orchestra from the Netherlands and Netherlands Dance Theatre? Could we please have some more culture on Saba? Thank you.

If Saba’s Government does not have a say or advice on the budget to whom Scholarship are awarded to or if it can actually be granted than what will be the need for a Department of Education or Commissioner of Education on Saba as a functioning Office within the Netherlands Antilles? To dismiss someone and categorize them as a liar is a good way to make yourself look good. If i name past public figures in a good way where Is the harm done? If I name call someone to point out to the public that they are imperfect humans just like us and an allegorical truth than why do you call it discriminating? But I understand you most people when they feel that someone does not belong they have a natural tendency to push them out or consider them to be less important; Trust me I know we are human.
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The Commissioners of Saba Bruce Zagers and Eviton Heyliger and their dis-graceful lack of leadership, they cannot even handle a simple porfolio such as Education. The Education system on the island of Saba Dutch Caribbean Is a total mess.

The Government pays in a whole Lot of money to do research and all kinds of studies, paying expensive plane tickets to different organizations but nothing Is done for the students and the quality of Education does not improve. We have Bruce Zagers elected due to nepotism serving as commissioner in the same position for more than 15 years and he still cannot serve Saba right, he still has not learned his job and cannot even do it properly but yes he Is willing to go him with a pay-cheque as fat as he is at the end of the day; and to lead his partner Eviton Heyliger in the same ditch, two blind captains Steering Saba to sink.

There is no visible or concrete improvement of the School system in the last 15 years on Saba. Teachers they are willing to work hard but they are not given all the necessary tools and resources and support from commissioners Bruce Zagers and Eviton Heyliger! This indicates that there is no proper management and oversite by Bruce Zagers and Eviton Heyliger, I think they are the ones who we need to keep in check! The State of the Schools shows the commissioners incompetence at the highest level! Instead of looking for Solutions they are busy drinking up the money they are steeling from the Saba Government coffers. Their unreasonable ego Is more important to them than actually caring for the Saba students and all people living on the island Saba. This Is a testimony to see their deceit and unfairness in their conceited failed leadership.

I stand confidently me: Cristian Hassell Feliciano as a witness to this. While attending college in the United States in Nashville, Tennessee as the First Saba student ever to attend David Lipscomb University: I completed my First year of college 2007 to 2008. The then Commissioner in 2007 Distinguished and Honorable Commissioner Lisa Hassell (1999-2007) helped me get a Scholarship from the Netherlands Antilles Government.

While I was in the States in 2007 elections were held and the commissioners changed to Bruce Zagers and Chris Johnson who took Office. In 2008 when I went to register for classes at the Registrar Office at Lipscomb University the nice and polite Tennessean lady informed me that the Government of Saba did not send the cheque and that until it Is paíd I won’t be able to register for classes. I immediately called the Education Department on Saba and Ms. Sharon Oleana Hassell informed me that Commissioner of Education Chris Johnson refuses to sign my cheque.

The then Saban Junior Minister of the Netherlands Antilles Honorable Max Nicholson called the Education Department: He scolded Franklin Wilson head of the Education Department of Saba and asked “What the Hell Is going on with the Boy’s Scholarship!” Franklin answer that the School Is to expensive and the Executive Council under Chris Johnson refuses to pay. But the hypocrisy stands in that they paíd for the second Saba student to attend that same University Paloma Hassell who greeted me so warmly when She saw me at the School. So, I was short-changed and descriminated against by the under-serving Pin-heads Commissioners Chris Johnson and Bruce Zagers. Under serving Commissioner Eviton Heyliger also descriminated against me saying and making fun that Will Johnson did not Let me join the WIPM Party because I was not born on Saba; Small minded island retarded mentality! I said , I am a Dutch Citizen and I have the same rights as you!

These are the types of jokers we have leading Saba as commissioners is a crying Shame! Drunken captains Steering Saba to sink!

Cristian Hassell Feliciano

Just a note to Member of Parliament (MP) Mpanzu Bamenga (D66) and MP Raoul White (Groenlinks-PvdA..we the voters of the Dutch Caribbean will remember this effort on your part come next election…We have taken note

An apt time for a visit. Princess Beatrix spent several years in Ottawa, Ontario Canada for safety during WWII. We Canadiens remember the sacrifices our soldiers made liberating Holland. Princess Margreit was born in Canada. There is always a ceremony thanking Canadian soldiers in Holland.

Welcome Princess Beatrix from this Canadian.

In Flanders Fields the poppies grew between the crosses row on roe …

I don’t see this as greed as much as trying to keep money as local as they can va feeding an American billionaire.