News from Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba
KRALENDIJK - Maarten van Ooijen, the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), will make a working visit to Bonaire and Curaçao from the 5th to the 10th of June. As well as the annual four-country meeting, the most important topics during the scheduled visits and meetings will be healthcare, youth care and the slavery past in relation to health in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Bonaire On Tuesday 6th of June, Mr. Van ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK — In the period from June 1st to June 22nd, 2023, Water en Energiebedrijf Bonaire (WEB) will conduct research into the quality of water and electricity services on Bonaire. WEB Bonaire invites the community of Bonaire to participate and make ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - Charles Woodley from the All-4-1 Union in St. Eustatius recently visited fellow union leaders on the island of Bonaire. Woodley had meetings with both the umbrella organization of unions on the island, USIBO, and the fellow union General ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- The five members of the St. Eustatius electoral college cast their votes on Tuesday 30 May, in a secret ballot for the first chamber in the Netherlands, also known as the Dutch senate. The electoral votes for the Dutch cast 4 votes in favor of ... Lees verder
PHILIPSBURG- St. Maarten based carrier Winair will soon get a new DHC-6 ‘Twinotter’ plane in. The new(er) plane will be replacing the aircraft with registration PJ-WIP, which is leaving the fleet. While the plane currently still carries the Canadian ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - Primary School Het Koraal has now become an officially funded school after receiving a decision from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science. Vera Dohmen, board member and director of the school, expressed her delight at the decision. ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- The Colombian budget airline Wingo will provide a total of 4500 additional seats on flights from Colombia to Aruba during the summer period. This includes a total of 26 extra flights that will be operated using the Boeing 737 aircraft of the ... Lees verder
With our warm climate you need to drink a lot a water and so do your plants. However, water your plants in the evening, it cuts down on evaporation and allows the plants several hours without sun to take up water into their system. This will help to save on ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- The Island Council of Bonaire has unanimously passed a motion calling for the reintroduction of services that allow for quick money transfers abroad, known as direct transfers. In the past, Bonaire had access to both MoneyGram services ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- Saba’s Electoral College on Tuesday, May 30th voted for the Dutch First Chamber. All five votes went to Labor Party (PvdA) Senator Jeroen Recourt. PvdA and the green left party GroenLinks have combined their forces in the Senate. Three of the ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- A delegation comprising the director of economy, nature and infrastructure (right); policy adviser at ENI, Kimani Walters (left), and Anna Maitz, the project manager of the Nature and Environment Policy Plan (centre), have left for Aruba to ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - Council lady Daisy Coffie of the M21 wants to receive an update from the Executive Council on the situation with Bonlab. The Council lady has sent off a letter with several written questions, but asks for them to be answered publicly in the next ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - The new Interim Island Registrar of the Public Entity Bonaire (PEB), Arjen de Wolff, was sworn in on Monday by Island Governor Reynold Oleana. De Wolff is the temporary successor to departing Island Registrar Shuzelle Pieter. De Wolff lives in ... Lees verder
Are you an American, European Dutch or Dutch national from Curaçao, St. Maarten or Aruba and do you want to live on Bonaire, St. Eustatius or Saba for more than 6 months in a period of 1 year? Or do you want to stay longer than 3 months in a 6-month period and ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- A great majority of the local press on Bonaire has deliberately ignored the visit of Minister Carola Schouten to the island last week. Lately, a "fatigue” among the press is notable when it comes to the visit of especially Dutch Ministers and ... Lees verder