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 …
Read More »Saba welcomes Olympians home
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 …
Read More »Canon aims to document Saba history for future generations
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 …
Read More »Saba and the Kingdom take further steps to improve the livelihood of the island.
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 …
Read More »Media Research Caribbean Netherlands 2022 Survey. Participants have a chance to win a $250 USD grocery coupon!
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 …
Read More »Saba and the Central Government continue to improve the island’s social security
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 …
Read More »Saba’s Bocce team wins GOLD in the Special Olympics in The Netherlands. Team returns this Tuesday!
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 …
Read More »Samenwerkende Fondsen Cariben (SFC) initiates micro grant procedure for Saba
‘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 …
Read More »Cultural evening to celebrate the launch of the Saba Coffee Table Book: Saba from Sea to Scenery: June 12th
The Public Entity Saba is organizing a special cultural evening to celebrate the launch of the Saba Coffee Table Book: Saba from Sea to Scenery, edited by Peter Johnson & John Angus Martin. The journey from “Sea to Scenery” began over two years ago, culminating in this wonderful coffee table …
Read More »Distribution of income and expenditure to the Caribbean Netherlands 2019
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%, …
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