Rain washes out opening day’s play

COUVA, Trinidad – Not a ball was bowled in any of the matches in the Regional Girls’ Under-19 Invitational Twenty20 Tournament, due to rain.   The tournament organisers, in conjunction…

Book of The Dead by Lasana Sekou, “an ambitious book,” dominated by crime

Book of The Dead by Lasana Sekou is “An important new work of world literature, … an ambitious book,” said Xu Xi, the Indonesian-Chinese novelist who works out of Hong…

CAft chairman Age Bakker: “Aruba budget is more or less on track”

Oranjestad – During a visit to Aruba on June 22 and 23, 2016, the Board of financial supervision Aruba (CAft) concluded that the budget implementation is more or less on…

Minister Lee Visit members of Second Chamber

As part of his working visit to the Netherlands, Minister Lee paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman of the permanent committee Kingdom Relations of Parliament, Mr. Jeroen Recourt. Minister…

Minister Lee meets with Minister of Health in the Netherlands

During Minister Lee’s recent working visit to the Netherlands, he met with Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports, Edith Schippers to inform her about the plans for the new hospital…

Parliament meetings

On Wednesday June 22,2016 will be a closed door meeting of the   Ad Hoc Committee for the Preparation of the Construction of a new Building for Parliament, this meeting will…

Dajour Boasman receives assistance from MP Marlin-Romeo to attend basketball training camp

Member of Parliament (MP) and the selection committee nominated Dajour Boasman as the month of June’s recipient for the Give Back to the Community Award.   Young Boasman was selected…

Arrest

On Sunday, June 19th, around 2.15 PM  the police arrested a 16 year old young man with the initials Z.P. for assault, on the Kapelweg on St. Eustatius.    …

Members of the Royal Marechassee sworn in

On Friday June 17th 2016 during a short ceremony at the office of the Minister of Justice three new member of Royal Marechaussee were sworn in by the Justice Minister…

Capacity Building Certification for NGOs and Community Councils (CCs)

The Capacity Building Program as initiated by Community Development, Family & Humanitarian Affairs, within the Ministry of Public Health Social Development & Labour in 2013 went through some meaningful restructuring…