Netherlands Antilles News

Costa Rica and China's top state oil company CNPC are hammering out the details of a planned refinery upgrade that could cost up to $1 billion, the head of Costa Rica's national oil company said.

By excluding Dutch citizens born outside of the Netherlands Antilles who did not reside on the island before January 1, 2007, from its March 26 constitutional referendum, Bonaire is sending the wrong message.

The body of Curacao national Auxencio Angelo Isenia was found at the crumbled Hotel Montana in Haiti on Tuesday.

Dutch State Secretary of Kingdom Relations Ank Bijleveld-Schouten is travelling to Curacao next week for a meeting of the Political Steering Group.

The division of cabinet posts within the new Central Government should be proportional, says Constitutional and Home Affairs Minister Roland Duncan of the National Alliance .

The Dutch Parliament's Second Chamber has decided to bypass the Antillean Parliament and engage in direct talks with the Island Councils.

Undocumented people can still make use of the Brooks Tower Accord to regulate their status, although the submission period has ended.

National Alliance's number five candidate Henrietta Doran-York is expected to be St.

St. Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Curacao and Bonaire are all going to the polls today to elect what is supposed to be the last Parliament and Central Government of the Netherlands Antilles, in the process of being dissolved so each of the five islands can go its own way within the Dutch Kingdom.

Sufficient knowledge of the Dutch language to be assessed in a mandatory test will become part of the process to attain Dutch nationality if the Dutch Parliament gives the green light to a law proposal.

Attendees of the Chapter of Professional Young People forum on constitutional affairs walked away Wednesday night knowing that St.

An aircraft which was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport because of an unruly passenger has now been grounded at Shannon after gardai decided to carry out a search of the plane.

Financial Intelligence Unit will be functional in March COLE BAY--St. Maarten branch of the Netherlands Antilles Financial Intelligence Unit MOT is set to open in Puerto del Sol Plaza in March.

The government of the Netherlands Antilles has announced the last-minute cancellation of a visit by a delegation from Venezuela On Tuesday, Venezuela's Deputy Latin America and Caribbean Minister Francisco Arias Crdenas and the head of the country's PdVSA state oil company Asdrbal Chvez announced they intended to visit the Netherlands Antilles the ...

Antillean Minister of Justice Magali Jacoba and Curacao's Lt. Governor Lisa Dindial launched a new registration system called 'Foreigner Management System' at the Aliens Department in Willemstad.

If it was up to the Antillean Minister of Home and Constitutional Affairs Roland Duncan the next cabinet would pay more attention to a new judicial setup.

President Hugo Chavez said a US military aircraft had entered Venezuelan airspace on Friday, insisting that the governments of the United States and the Netherlands were behind what he described as a "provocative action." The United States has denied the charge.

The Democratic Party will hold its first public meeting in the campaign for the January 22 parliamentary elections tonight, Wednesday, on the De Weever property in Dutch Quarter, starting at 8:00. The party has a full slate of 11 candidates, headed by party leader Island Councilwoman Sarah Wescot-Williams, for what is to be the last parliamentary ...

A preliminary inventory of tasks and funding that have to come to St. Maarten as part of the dismantling of the Netherlands Antilles has been completed by a committee of Island and Central Government civil servants.

Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company subscribers will be able to benefit from reductions in international rates "to all major destinations" during the next three months, following approval from the Public Utilities Commission According to an advertisement placed by the company , from today customers will "enjoy sweeping reductions in the price of ...