Bag full of holes
In Curacao we have the curious situation where the Government has announced to hold a press conference about a private company: Inselair. The situation with this privately owned company is precarious. Apparently, both the Curacao and Aruba civil aviation authorities have decided to ground all the MD-8x and Fokker 70 aircrafts as a result of compliants More...
The fault of the Dutch
An attempt by Aruban attorneys Lincoln Gomez and Andin Bikker to get voting rights in Dutch parliamentary elections for Dutch citizens living in the Caribbean countries Aruba, Curacao and St. Maarten has failed More...
SHTA severely criticizes functioning of Parliament
GREAT BAY – The St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association has severely criticized the functioning of Parliament. In a newsletter it published on its website on Sunday, the SHTA says that Parliament “is not More...
Pastafaris
Just when many people are having sleepless nights over the inauguration of the next president of the United States, a report in the Telegraaf shows that the Netherlands has its own share of nutcases. In Nijmegen, More...
Power disasters
When power failed once more on Monday evening around 10 p.m. many residents must have sighed in frustration. Not again? But when in Amsterdam the power failed yesterday around 4 a.m., 360,000 households were without More...
Sharks
The story about the diver who was bitten by a nurse shark makes clear that sharks are not all that innocent. Surely this was not a Jaws-like incident, but an example of what could happen if people interact with More...
A controversial honeypot
The speed and hurry of the outgoing cabinet to contract the new operator for the Isla refinery and the Bullen Bay has created a lot of unrest in Curacao, Caribisch Netwerk and NOS-correspondent Dick Drayer writes More...
Pipedream
Princess Cruise Lines is “extremely disappointed in its personnel,” the company said after it received a $40 million fine in a court in Miami for environmental violations that have been going on since 2005. We More...
Causal mechanism
Marijuana poses a greater mental health risk than any other substance, including class A drugs, according to new research out of Denmark. Regular users of the herb, particularly its super-strength varieties, were More...
Rudderless
The situation at the Cadastre is screaming for a solution, as is the one at TelEm that has been rudderless without a CEO for more than seven years now. Both the company and the land registry office are important More...