GREAT BAY--The Collective Prevention Service (CPS) is urging residents to take practical, steady steps toward better heart health, warning that while heart disease remains a major cause of death worldwide, many heart conditions are preventable with consistent lifestyle habits and regular checkups.

THE HAGUE--Professor Francio Guadeloupe, endowed professor of Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations, will deliver his inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam on Thursday, March 12, 2026.

BONAIRE--The Bonaire Human Rights Organization (BHRO) welcomes the outcome of the 2025 review of the Kingdom of the Netherlands before the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva. Represented by James Finies and Davika Bissessar Shaw, BHRO attended the review in Geneva with strong belief in the United Nations human rights system, trusting that the realities facing the people of Bonaire would be heard and fairly assessed.

GREAT BAY--The Division of Study Financing says recent geopolitical developments in the United States, combined with changes to a Florida scholarship framework, have influenced decisions by new St. Maarten study recipients, but have not created a situation where pursuing higher education became impossible.

GREAT BAY--Caribbean authorities are preparing for another difficult sargassum season as an unusually large Atlantic belt of floating seaweed continues to build and push westward, with heavy accumulations already affecting parts of the Mexican Caribbean and raising concerns about widespread impacts across the region as spring turns into mid-summer.

GREAT BAY--The clock has run down on the built-in review period for St. Maarten’s Landsverordening Normering Topinkomens (LNT), the law that caps salaries for top officials in the public and semi-public sector. Enacted in late 2022, the ordinance included a three-year evaluation clause requiring government to assess whether the legislation is functioning as intended and to report on its effectiveness.