News from Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba
AMSTERDAM - The Dutch Eurovision Song Contest duo Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper have adapted their song for participation in the Eurovision contest to be held early May. According to Dutch Press Agency ANP, the new version has been chosen for one and a half tone higher. Nicolai and Cooper sang the song Burning Daylight in the new way in the program Khalid & Sophie. According to broadcaster AVROTROS, the original version of the song ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - The Public Entity Bonaire (PEB), together with the inhabitants of the island, will have to make decisions about the spatial zoning on the island. This can be deduced from answers by Alexandra van Huffelen, in an interview with Aimed Ayubi ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - According to the State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Affairs (BZK), a lot of work still needs to be done when it comes to combating poverty, but also to eliminating the differences in the level of facilities between the European and ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - On Wednesday, legislative lawyer Maik Schumacher of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Affairs (BZK) presented the outlines of changes to the BES Public Entities Act (WolBES) and the Public Entities Finance Act (FinBES). The biggest ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- Bonaire looks back on a successful edition of Ride for the Roses, which was possible again after quite some time. Participants gathered before sunrise to participate in the activity that raises money for the fight against cancer. As in previous ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - Friday afternoon, members of the Royal House have landed at the Bonaire airport. They were welcomed by the Governor, the representative of the government, and the director of Bonaire International Airport. The visit is focused on introducing ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - The Party for Freedom (PVV) in The Netherlands has come to the defence of Island Governor Edison Rijna. The party of Geert Wilders's decided to send off a letter to State Secretary Alexandra Van Huffelen, requesting clarification about ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK- The Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Mr. Dennis Wiersma, will pay an introductory visit to Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire from 29 May to 4 June. Minister Wiersma: "Every child deserves a good education and a good start in life. It ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK/DEN HAAG - The Rijksmuseum is organizing the 'Document Nederland Junior' photo competition especially for secondary school and college students. Young people from all over the Kingdom can take part in the competition and win two master classes and ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- At around 9 AM on Friday morning, the official celebrations for this year's Dia di Himno y Bandera kicked off at Plaza Libertador G.F. Betico Croes. In addition to Governor Alfonso Boekhoudt and the government, the parliamentarians and other ... Lees verder
Oranjestad- The mediation team consisting of Suzanne (Suzy) Camelia- Römer, Maria Liberia-Peters and Alba Martijn, arrived on St. Eustatius on Sunday, March 6th, 2022. They mediators have been appointed recently to assist in a mediation attempt between the ... Lees verder
KRALENDIJK - In order to limit the negative impact of sargassum on the environment as much as possible, help from the national government is badly needed. But until today Stinapa has received no financial support from The Hague. The nature organization writes ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- On Tuesday morning members of the Kingdom Relations Committee of the Dutch Senate met with the members of the Statia Island Council. During the meeting, councilman Clyde van Putten called for what he called a 'reset' in the relationship between ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- The delegation of the Dutch Senate has paid a visit to the site of the new Harbor in Saba at the Black Rocks area. Here they received an update about the project from Commissioner Zagers, Policy Advisor Zelda Meeuwsen and Rijks-intern Hester van ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- In a statement sent out on Sunday afternoon, Island council member Clyde van Putten said that democracy is a birthright and a human right, and that therefor no conditions should be attached to the return of full democracy to the inhabitants of the ... Lees verder