WILLEMSTAD - Members of Parliament from Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Netherlands are holding their annual political consultations again. On the first they, the MPs discussed the number...

WILLEMSTAD - The position of MFK minister Dorothy Janga-Pietersz is wavering. Various sources within the coalition believe that the Minister of Health should resign, now that she has still...

NAPLES - The police in Italy found a large arsenal of weapons belonging to drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale, who the Dutch police consider a business partner of Ridouan Taghi....

WILLEMSTAD - In the Interparliamentary Kingdom Consultation (IPKO) that took place on Wednesday, expert in constitutional law Rutsel Martha stated that there is indeed a democratic deficit within the...

WILLEMSTAD - The entire community is invited to celebrate that CURA DOET has been making a positive impact in our society for 10 years by sharing love, energy and...

WILLEMSTAD - Banco di Caribe informs that criminals have linked the telephone number 511 1919 to WhatsApp in order to call people to request personal data. This telephone number is...

WILLEMSTAD - All carnival stands must be cleared by Sunday. The Curaçao government is calling on all owners of the so-called stents to remove their structures in the coming...

THE HAGUE – When it comes to climate policy, don't forget the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, is the poignant message from the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WWR)...

WILLEMSTAD - The school boards in Special Education want joint action within the kingdom to save failing education in Curaçao. In a petition they ask the governments of the...

WILLEMSTAD - The police raided a house near Medemapark on Thursday morning. During the search, they found marijuana, cocaine and hashish, among other things. This is according to the...

WILLEMSTAD - Refineria di Kòrsou (RdK), during a meeting with Caribbean Petroleum Refinery (CPR) that took place on Wednesday February 15th, informed CPR that the negotiations regarding the management...

CARACAS - Curaçao and Venezuela seem to have reached an agreement on the reopening of the borders. Yesterday Curaçao made a proposal, at the end of the day the...

WILLEMSTAD, PHILIPSBURG - Stakeholders who are in close interaction with the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) have seen improvements in their interactions with the CBCS, have...

WILLEMSTAD - The Academy Hotel will close its doors on 1 February. According to Minister of Economic Development Ruisandro Cijntje, the training center is a 'bottomless pit'. The minister...

WILLEMSTAD - UNESCO has approved three projects for Curaçao worth USD 57,000 in the field of education and culture. The projects are the responsibility of the Ministry of Education,...

THE HAGUE - The Dutch population’s confidence in the government and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the country’s central bank, has fallen sharply in the past year. This is partly...

WILLEMSTAD - The recently fired commissioner of the Gaming Control Board, Jamir Barton, is demanding 443,000 guilders from the regulator for his work as acting director. Barton filed a...

WILLEMSTAD - A major recruitment campaign for new teachers has started on the social media channels of the Roman Catholic Central School Board (RKCS) and the Association of Protestant...

WILLEMSTAD - The royal visit will be given a tour of Bandabou on Friday. It is the last day of the visit of King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess...

WILLEMSTAD - His Majesty the King's visit to Brionplein today was all about children and sports. The king gave the starting shot for registration for the King's Games and...

WILLEMSTAD - There is still no concrete date for reopening the borders with Venezuela. This is reported by the Curaçao government. There have been three official consultations between Aruba,...

WILLEMSTAD – Police officers conducted a traffic check at Hato airport last Saturday. Particular attention was paid to the parking situation. During the check, the police encountered a suspicious...

WILLEMSTAD - The Emergency Department, Intensive Care (IC), and Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) are full as we enter into the weekend. There has been a high influx of patients...

WILLEMSTAD - On Monday, January 23, Mr. Cees Ullersma and Mrs. Bianca Tjon Atsoi, on behalf of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), paid a visit to the Governor of Curaçao,...

WILLEMSTAD - The GP post that was previously planned in the Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) will not be in the hospital itself after all. Minister of Health, Environment and...

THE HAGUE - If the same-sex marriage verdict stands up to the Supreme Court, then Sint Maarten, following Aruba and Curaçao, will also have to open marriage to people...

WILLEMSTAD, PHILIPSBURG - The Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) has taken note of the coverage given in various media outlets to statements made by Nina Ansary,...

WILLEMSTAD - On Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, at the invitation of the Social and Economic Council (SER) of Curaçao, Minister of Finance Mr. Drs. Javier Silvania gave a further...

THE HAGUE - The Dutch cabinet says it is 'confident' that Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten will implement all agreed reforms in the coming years. This is according to...

Met faillisementsverslag, cassatieadvies en cassatievonnis THE HAGUE – The largest online sports betting company 1xBet/1xCorp has been declared bankrupt after all. The Attorney General of the Supreme Court had already...

LOS ANGELES - Dr. Nina Ansary, an internationally recognized women's rights advocate and award-winning Iranian American author and historian today filed a complaint against the Central Bank of Curacao...

When the Coast Guard helicopter arrived at the location, the two people on board were hoisted up for their safety. The local vessel with the water pump that wanted...

THE HAGUE - A year after it was announced that the post of Representative of the Netherlands in Willemstad would become vacant in mid-2022, a successor has still not...

WILLEMSTAD - Last week, two people died from the effects of COVID-19. This brings the counter to 301 corona deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. The...

WILLEMSTAD - The Animal Protection Curaçao has made compensation available for people who want to help catch stray dogs. The organization announced this via social media.   Animal Protection is...

PHILIPSBURG – Four-country talks will take place on Sint Maarten today and tomorrow. The agenda includes the disagreement about the Caribbean Body for Reform (COHO), the dispute settlement, and...

WILLEMSTAD - The Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) is reporting a record-breaking number of stayover visitor arrivals in 2022. It is the first time Curaçao came close to half a...

WILLEMSTAD - Miss Curaçao can still participate in the Miss Universe elections this Saturday in New Orleans. Gabriela dos Santos tested positive for Corona last week and almost saw...

WILLEMSTAD - Defendants’ drug trafficking organization allegedly imported over one hundred kilograms of cocaine into the United States using corrupt foreign and domestic airport employees to bypass security and...

CHATA notes that the last time the minimum wage was adjusted was in 2018 and has not increased during the pandemic years. It further notes that Curaçao’s Central Bureau of...

WILLEMSTAD - Hushang Ansary has appealed against the judgment in summary proceedings in which the court ruled in October that not he, but Insurance Company Ennia owns SunResorts and,...

WILLEMSTAD - Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas asks everyone to remain calm about the negotiations surrounding the oil refinery. He writes this in a statement on social media.     On Thursday it was announced...

WILLEMSTAD - The preferred bidder Caribbean Petroleum Refinery (CPR) is said to have falsified dozens of financial documents for the takeover of the Curaçao Isla refinery.   The Netherlands Forensic Investigation...

  WILLEMSTAD - The Curaçao Tourist Board (CTB) has announced that beginning on April 6, 2023 JetBlue will add two additional flights from John F. Kennedy International Airport, increasing the...

WILLEMSTAD - The IPDC climate conference concluded this week with a visit to the Curaçao Rif Mangrove Park. IPDC stands for International Panel on Deltas and Coastal areas.     During the...

WILLEMSTAD - The Animal Welfare Act will come into effect on 1 January. This is evident from the new National Ordinance presented by the Ministry of Health, Environment and...

WILLEMSTAD - Kranshi will be closed Thursday and Friday next week. This is reported by the Ministry of Policy, Planning and Services. There will be no staff at the desk...

WILLEMSTAD - The Ministry of Finance has given positive advice to withdraw the 12.5 percent cut on the terms of employment with retroactive effect. This is stated in a...

WILLEMSTAD - The new National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK) has been approved by the Council of Ministers of Curaçao. This became clear in the Memorandum of Finance...

With verdicts | Curacao Chronicle THE HAGUE - Master license holder Cyberluck is appealing to the Supreme Court in the Netherlands. It wants to get two rulings on appeal about sublicenses off...

Met vonnissen | Curacao Chronicle WILLEMSTAD - According to law firm Spigt Dutch Caribbean, the Court's ruling on Curaçao's sub-licensing system does not immediately mean that all issued sub-licenses are...

THE HAGUE - Prime Minister Mark Rutte today refused to answer questions about the report from RTL Nieuws that the cabinet will apologize for the Dutch role in the...

LONDON - The High Court has dismissed a jurisdiction challenge to claims brought against a Caribbean bank in London after finding that allegations over Curaçao International Bank's role in...

  NEW YORK - The process for money laundering against Nilsen Arias, former International Trade Manager of Petroecuador, in the United States, opens the door to identify other oil intermediaries...

THE HAGUE – “With the courage to make difficult decisions and decisiveness to implement them”, despite major challenges, it is realistic that Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten will get...

WILLEMSTAD - Opera singer Tania Kross wants to build a new theater on Curaçao. She revealed this in the Op1 program on Dutch television. Next Tuesday, Tania Kross can...

WILLEMSTAD - Justice Minister Shalten Hato is in India for a working visit. Together with a delegation, he attends an international conference of Interpol. More than 190...

WILLEMSTAD, THE HAGUE - Recently the Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Sport (OWCS) Mr. Sithree van Heydoorn received a report from the Dutch government that more than 5.6...

WILLEMSTAD - The practices of five Curaçao companies that sell sublicenses to operate web casinos can indeed be considered illegal. This is evident from two rulings of the Joint...

AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema believes that Europe should decriminalize the sale of cocaine, like various countries already allow the sale of cannabis. “But I am a realist...