Netherlands Antilles News

The biggest cruise ship in Carnival Cruise Lines history will offer 7-day eastern and western Caribbean cruises from its new home at Port Canaveral starting December 5, 2009.

Google on Monday unveiled a new Web-based tool, Map Maker , that lets people add roads, lakes, businesses, and other features to unmapped regions of Google Maps.

Suriname advanced to the semifinal stage of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying on Sunday, beating South American neighbor Guyana 2-1 to complete a 3-1 aggregate victory.

It wasn't much of a surprise that Albert Gastmann would leave his estate to Trinity College when he died.

But the size of the gift stunned even those who knew him well.

'When he left [nearly] $3 million to the college, I almost had a stroke,' said Brigitte Schulz, chairwoman of Trinity's political science department.

Over nearly 20 years, Schulz had grown to think of Gastmann as a father. She talked to him daily and treasured his tolerance and intellectual curiosity. But she also knew him as a thrifty man, given to wearing the same old sweaters, and she never had an inkling of his fortune.

The Island Council meeting Monday was conducted in keeping with the rules and regulations governing the Island Territory of St.

Controversial Dutch Member of Parliament for the PVV party Hero Brinkman wants a parliamentary inquiry into the scope of corruption in the Netherlands Antilles.

Six weeks after public health authorities on the Caribbean island of Curacao impounded the Scientology cult's 440-foot luxury liner "Freewinds," the ship remains locked down.

Departments busy closing permit process loopholes PHILIPSBURG--Work has started on the possible synchronisation of government's business licence, employment permit and residence permit policies, with the main ...

The Ministerial Steering Group for Constitutional Affairs established on Tuesday an advisory committee for the dismantling of the Netherlands Antilles.

Lt. Governor Franklyn Richards is in the Netherlands to join his colleague St. Eustatius Lt.

Unidentified body found floating in Marigot Bay MARIGOT--The lifeless body of a man who was found floating in the bay of Marigot was brought ashore on the beach at Le Pirate Residences, Marigot, around 10:30am, ...

Cocaine bust on CuraA ao Published: Tuesday 27 May 2008 07:44 UTC Last updated: Tuesday 27 May 2008 07:44 UTC Police on the Netherlands Antilles' island of CuraA ao, which forms part of the Kingdom of the ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 2008 09:32 UTC Last updated: Thursday 29 May 2008 10:35 UTC The Netherlands Antilles says European Union countries are not consistent in the way they deal with the Caribbean islands.

Fourteen years behind bars was the verdict of the three judges of the Joint Court of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba in the appeal case against Ruman Balborda , who was held responsible for the murder of ...

Published: Monday 26 May 2008 07:24 UTC Last updated: Monday 26 May 2008 07:24 UTC The parliaments of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, which have autonomous status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, have ...

A digital signature has the same legal effect as a hand-written signature The Ordinance on agreements concluded electronically became effective on 1 January 2001.

The tenth Caneye social housing conference gets underway in earnest today with much emphasis being placed on examining ways of providing affordable housing in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.

Commissioner of Personnel Maria Buncamper-Molanus hired the first St. Maartener during her recruitment trip to the Netherlands on Sunday.

“Kojima's ambitious growth plans for its tax practice and its acceptance into the Taxand network encouraged me to leave a Big 4 firm”

Taxand, a network of independent tax advisor firms in 43 countries with 300 tax partners, has added three more members and two more territories - Kojima Law Offices, KhattarWong and Magisters from Japan, ... via The Financial Mirror

The cost of health care can be lowered if more is done in the area of primary preventive care, says President of the local chapter of the Nursing Organisation of the Netherlands Antilles ODEAN Mavis Rombley. via The Daily Herald