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Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) will visit Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire from 15 to 20 January. The theme of the visit is the Ministerial Four-Country Consultation on Education, Culture and Science and the commemoration of the slavery past. Minister Dijkgraaf is the coordinating minister of the Slavery Past…
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander, Her Majesty Queen Máxima and Her Royal Highness Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, will pay a visit to the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from Friday 27 January to Thursday 9 February 2023. They will visit Bonaire, Aruba and Curaçao before continuing to St…
In Q4 2022, consumer goods and services on Bonaire were 8.1 percent more expensive than one year previously. The inflation rate was still 12.2 percent in Q3. The decline in Q4 is largely attributable to a subsidy on the fixed usage rate for electricity that was implemented as of 1…
In the coming years, millions of extra euros will go to libraries and heritage in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. This is stated in the Multi-annual Letter on Culture in which State Secretary Uslu (Culture and Media) sets out her starting points for cultural policy in the coming years.…
Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Digitalisation, will visit Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire from the 20th to the 25th of November. The State Secretary will speak with administrators and visit projects. On Sint Maarten, for instance, she will visit the National Recovery Program Bureau and…
The WeConnect foundation will receive an annual subsidy until 2027, for the support of Caribbean students and starters on the labour market. In 2023, it concerns an amount of about 200,000 euros. The Netherlands is making this amount available through the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, to help…
On December 19th, 2022, Prime Minister Mark Rutte will speak live from the National Archives in the Netherlands about his cabinet’s response to the report ‘Ketenen van het verleden’ (Chains of the past)’ by the Advisory Board Dialooggroep Slavernijverleden. To emphasize the importance of this subject, a minister or state…
In a speech this afternoon, Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized for the actions of the Dutch state in the past: posthumously to all enslaved people worldwide who suffered from that action, to their daughters and sons, and to all their descendants up to the here and now. The prime minister…
The recently concluded autumn campaign of the Education Executive Service (DUO) in the Caribbean was a great success. Besides opening temporary service offices, there were information sessions, webinars and tailor-made help for payment problems. And for the first time, all six islands in the Caribbean were visited in one campaign…
State Secretary Gunay Uslu (Culture) will visit the Caribbean part of the Kingdom from the 9th to the 17th of January. The trip will focus on cultural cooperation, libraries and heritage. There is also attention for the slavery past. Recently, Uslu announced an investment of several millions in the libraries…