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From 2 September to 6 September 2019, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Carola Schouten will visit the Caribbean Netherlands. The visit is aimed at strengthening mutual cooperation and the advancement of various projects in the field of agricultural and horticultural development, nature conservation and fishing on Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire. In addition,Continue reading “Schouten to the Dutch Caribbean”

Royal Caribbean has become the first cruise line impacted by the oncoming Tropical Storm Dorian in the Eastern Caribbean. Tropical Storm Dorian is currently heading towards the Eastern Caribbean and all the cruise lines are closely monitoring its development. Royal Caribbean has become the first cruise line to change one of its ship itineraries toContinue reading “Royal Caribbean Changes Itinerary Due to Tropical Storm Dorian”

** SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN # 2 – Tropical Storm Dorian ** DATE ISSUED: Sunday, 25 August, 2019 TIME: 05:30AM (09:30UTC) At 5:00 am today the center of Tropical Storm Dorian was located near latitude 11.0 North, longitude 51.6 West, or about 905 miles southeast of St. Maarten. Dorian is moving toward the west near 13Continue reading “LATEST TROPICAL STORM DORIAN UPDATE”

The condolence register that has been opened online to condemn the royal family with the death of Princess Christina is only rarely used since the cremation last Thursday. For example, three messages were placed on Saturday, and another nine on Friday. The intention is to close the register in the short term, as the GovernmentContinue reading “Condolences Continue To Trickle In Following Death Of Princess”

ST MAARTEN – Passengers on a KLM flight have been stuck on St Maarten for two days. Flight KL789 was to depart via Curaçao to Amsterdam on Friday, but the aircraft is struggling with a defective part. According to a KLM spokeswoman, a new part is currently on its way to the Antillean island. TheContinue reading “Passengers KLM flight fixed on St Maarten”

Piarco, Trinidad – Caribbean Airlines announced the start of service between Kingston, Jamaica and Grand Cayman, from October 29, 2019. The flights will operate twice weekly to Grand Cayman from Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, Jamaica each Tuesday and Saturday. Now business, leisure and other travelers can easily connect to Grand Cayman from many ofContinue reading “Caribbean Airlines to Launch Service Between Kingston, Jamaica and Grand Cayman.”

Philipsburg – KLM flight 789 from Amsterdam to Curaçao and vice versa was stranded on Friday afternoon during the planned stopover on Sint Maarten due to a technical defect. To remedy the problem, a part must be flown in from the Netherlands. KLM assumes that the flight can be resumed today – with a 24-hourContinue reading “KLM EMERGENCY LANDING IN SINT MAARTEN”

The first Health Psychology training course starts in November in the Caribbean Netherlands and the autonomous islands of the Kingdom. To this end, initiator Mental Health Caribbean (MHC) signed a contract with training institute RINO South last week. “After several attempts, we have now finally succeeded in setting up a BIG-registered health care psychologist togetherContinue reading “The Dutch Caribbean receives GZ psychologist training”

After the revelation of the first Caribbean Foiling Championships which will take place from February 21-23, 2020, the organization now announces that registration for the event has officially opened. To celebrate this, those who join the wave of innovation before October 31, 2019 will be rewarded with a 20% discount. Sacha van der Wouden (co-founderContinue reading “Worldwide enthusiasm about Caribbean Foiling Championships”

On Wednesday, the second FIFA-Concacaf Coach Educators’ Course (CEC), hosted by the Concacaf Development Department, came to a successful conclusion in Curacao. The course took place from August 17-21 with attendees from the following 12 Member Associations: Aruba, Barbados, Bonaire, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and TobagoContinue reading “Caribbean ready to train trainers after coach educators’ course comes to an end.”