Venezuela has closed the sea border with the Antilles. The country refuses humanitarian aid. The opposition has announced that humanitarian relief goods will enter the country via Curaçao on Saturday...
The situation of thousands of Venezuelan refugees on Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire is so harrowing that the Dutch Red Cross wants to scale up aid to these people as soon as possible. There is…
During a speech by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, several drones with explosives detonated on Saturday night. According to the Venezuelan Minister of Information Jorge Rodriguez, it was an attack against the president. Seven soldiers of the national guard were injured. Maduro himself remained unharmed.
The Netherlands does not recognize the elections in Venezuela, where the leftist president Nicolás Maduro was re-elected this weekend. 'They were not free and independent elections,' said minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in the House of Representatives.
Venezuela goes to the polls Sunday to choose a president. All signs point to a re-election of the current head of state, Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuela goes to the polls Sunday to choose a new president. The fact that the head of state, Nicolas Maduro, will take office in 2013, seems almost certain.
A sex-killer killer on Bonaire has been forced by the Public Prosecution Service 22 years behind bars to kill a young Mexican student who was treated as 'old dirt in a wheelbarrow'.
The Dutch government has not formally been informed of an extension of the Venezuelan blockade of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. 'That is disappointing', according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The trade boycott of Venezuela for Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao remains in place. That's what the Vice President, Tarek El Aissami, said on Tuesday.
Venezuela has closed the border for 72 hours for all trade with Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. President Nicolas Maduro wants to prevent this in his country from being shipped scarce food to the ABC countries.
In the Netherlands and in the Caribbean, Dutch should also be able to watch our public broadcasting. Now programs are often unattended and live NPO tracking is already impossible.
The former Netherlands Antilles must continue to be under financial supervision in the future. That says Age Bakker, who says goodbye after six years as chairman of the temporary colleges financial supervision.
The police on Bonaire found Sunday the lifeless body of 23-year-old Mexican Adriana Morales de Florencio, a crew member of an American cruise ship since last week. The dead woman was found on the coast of the island below the sand. An island resident would have been arrested in connection with her death.
Airbnb buys a Canadian site that rents luxury accommodations. It was not disclosed how much Airbnb pay for Luxury Retreats, but Bloomberg reported citing sources that this is an amount of approximately $ 300 million. Which is converted 281 million. The negotiations and the sum last week were already leaked.
Airbnb wants to offer more luxurious accomodations. Therefore, the rental site plan to acquire Canadian rival Luxury Retreats. The negotiations are likely and Airbnb decided to turn this week to the ticket, say sources close to the talks by Bloomberg.
Friday and Saturday go 350,000 volunteers make useful throughout the country by doing odd jobs for NLdoet. Also, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten join.
