Tear gas in SDKK
WILLEMSTAD - Tensions in the SDKK prison. In a short film, prisoners demand a meeting with the Minister of Justice about food, the lack of medication and the lack of timely medical care. On Monday, the guards had to use tear gas to get the protesting detainees back into the cell again. There has been no word yet from the Minister about whether he will More...
Police looking for missing girl of 15
WILLEMSTAD - The police are looking for the 15-year-old Kiara Melissa Fingal Suarez from Colombia. On Friday she left her parental home in Buena Vista and did not return. Kiara is 1 meter 68 tall, slim in stature More...
Coast Guard in action
WILLEMSTAD - At the direction of the Rescue & Coordination Center (RCC) of the Coastguard CARIB, a go-fast near Curacao was intercepted by a Metal Shark on Sunday evening, December 9th around 6pm. The go-fast More...
Dutch military officers arrested
WILLEMSTAD - Three Dutch military officers have been arrested in Curaçao. According to the Public Prosecution, they drove away after an accident and then made a false declaration of the theft of their rental car. The More...
Investigation after discovery cell phone in Jamaloodin’s cell
WILLEMSTAD - The Public Prosecution Service in Curaçao is investigating how former Minister of Finance George Jamaloodin could have had a telephone in his prison cell. Jamaloodin is locked in the new prison in More...
Boat intercepted with 37 undocumented
WILLEMSTAD - Yesterday evening around 11 pm the Frisc interceptor vessel of the station ship Zr. Ms Zeeland was dispatched with a team of the coastguard on board after a suspicious boat was spotted east of Curaçao. Upon More...
OM: Traffic death in November was under influence and did not wear a seat belt
WILLEMSTAD - Police Curaçao (KPC) and the Public Prosecution Service (OM) Curaçao deplore the traffic death on 22 November 2018. Despite additional efforts by the government to wear the belt, unnecessary deaths More...
Rules for drug possession slightly eased
WILLEMSTAD - For those who have a very small amount of drugs with them, for their personal use only, it will be confiscated and they will receive a warning. They will no longer have to appear in court. This is in More...
Jamaloodin remains in custody
WILLEMSTAD - Former minister Jamaloodin remains in custody in Bonaire. His defense had asked the Court to allow Jamaloodin to wait for the cases against him outside of prison, but the judge did not agree with them. He More...
24 years prison for SDKK murder
WILLEMSTAD - Diablo W, the man suspected of killing Kenroy Patrick Stefania in the SDKK prison, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. In July 2012, Stefania was shot dead in cell block 4 of the prison, Diablo More...
