News from Bonaire, St. Eustatius & Saba
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 even their own photo exhibition in the museum. The theme is Recycling, a second life; separating waste, repairing things or reusing them. Consciously or unconsciously, our things get a ... 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
THE BOTTOM / ORANJESTAD - A delegation of thirteen members of the Parliamentary Committee on Kingdom Relations will be making working visits to the Caribbean part of the Kingdom from the 25th of February till the 6th of March. The delegation will ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- Poverty alleviation, the high cost of living, the poor banking services, the double taxation, affordable housing and the need to increase the free allowance. These were some of the major topics that the Island Council brought forward in a ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen during her visit to the Caribbean side of the Kingdom scored quite some points for her elegance and colorful outfits. Every day the State Secretary could be seen in dressed in what some describe as 'haute ... Lees verder
THE BOTTOM- Dutch State Secretary of Kingdom Relations and Digitization Alexandra van Huffelen arrived on Saba on Tuesday morning, February 22 for a two-day visit. The State Secretary came in with a charter flight of WINAIR from St. Eustatius and was met at ... Lees verder
DEN HAAG/KRALENDIJK - PvdA and D66 plead for a kind of Erasmus scholarship for students in the Kingdom. They can now go with an Erasmus grant from the European Union to, say, Spain or Italy, but not to the Caribbean part of the kingdom. Education Minister ... Lees verder
By Harald Linkels The initiative of the Dutch Caribbean Airport Association (DCAA) to lobby for electric flights between the islands - no doubt unintentionally - is the absolute P-E-R-F-E-C-T political excuse for political The Hague to do noth, until at ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- Councilman Clyde van Putten (PLP) feels hopeful that the new State Secretary for Interior affairs and Kingdom Relations, Alexandra van Huffelen, will visit the island of St. Eustatius with what he calls ‘an open mind’. Van Putten on Thursday, in ... Lees verder
ORANJESTAD- In view of the upcoming visit of the new Dutch State Secretary for Kingdom Relations, Alexandra van Huffelen, Island Council member Clyde I van Putten on Monday said that he is looking forward with great anticipation to the visit of the state ... Lees verder
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