Saba News News and tourist information from Saba Island, Dutch Caribbean

On Saba, consumer prices rose by 0.8 year-on-year in Q4 2019, against 0.3 percent year-on-year in Q3. The Consumer Price Index, CPI, was driven up by the price development of telephony and internet subscriptions. In addition, prices of insurance services and home textiles were up. On the other hand, the …

Commander of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee Lieutenant-General Hans Leijtens visited Saba on Tuesday, January 21 to meet with local authorities, the police force and, naturally, the six members of the Marechaussee who work here. Three of the six support the police force and three carry out border control tasks. Leijtens …

The Public Entity Saba has a new head of the Community Development Department, Martin Richardson. Born and raised in Aruba, Richardson (60) assumed his position per December 1, 2019. Richardson is new to the island and had not been to Saba before taking on this new challenge on. He came …

Six projects have been entered so far for the 2020 SABA DOET volunteering initiative March 13-14. Organisations are encouraged to register their projects before January 31 to qualify for funding. Six projects in the areas of cleaning, planting, painting, food and gift baskets were filed by Saba Comprehensive School (SCS). …

A 35-year-old man with initials W.G.T. was ar­rested on Saba in connection with mistreatment with a weapon, public violence, attempted manslaughter and at­tempted murder on Saturday, January 18. Police Force Caribbean Netherlands KPCN reported the violent incident in a brief statement on Monday, but did not provide any details about …