Trinidad and Tobago government explains deportations of Venezuelan migrants
PORT OF SPAIN - After the United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago said it is concerned after authorities announced they had facilitated the return to Venezuela of scores of Venezuelan nationals, including asylum More...
European Parliament wants more help for the Caribbean islands
BRUSSELS - The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, wants the European Commission to give more support to Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. The islands are currently being flooded with refugees from More...
Venezuela requiring foreign ships to pay for services in crypto currency
CARACAS - Foreign ships in Venezuela will have to use the recently created cryptocurrency, Petro, to pay for services while in the South American country. And that could put the shipping firms on collision course More...
Brazil state seeks to shut Venezuelan border to stop refugee flow
BRASILIA - Leaders of Brazil’s northern state of Roraima on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to temporarily close the only land border crossing with neighboring Venezuela to halt the massive and disorderly More...
International community ramps up action on Venezuela crisis
NEW YORK - One year into the most recent series of protests and a humanitarian crisis with no end in sight, international groups have called for action to help protect Venezuelans. A complex political and economic More...
Digital media take the lead in reporting in Venezuela
CARACAS - Online media have taken the lead, ahead of the conventional media, in reporting in the tense political and economic climate in Venezuela, where freedom of speech and of information are under siege. In More...
Official Press Release: Visit Blok ends border closure Venezuela
CARACAS, WILLEMSTAD - After his visits to Sint Maarten, Aruba, Curaçao and Colombia, Minister Blok traveled to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. There, together with vice-presidents El Aissami and Soteldo, he More...
Venezuela’s oil sector may soon have new owners
CARACAS - Venezuela’s oil production fell by another 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in March, a devastating blow that will only make the country’s economic crisis worse. Output is expected to continue its downward More...
Venezuelan fruit boats not welcome
WILLEMSTAD - As long as President Nicolas Maduro keeps the borders closed with Curaçao, Venezuelan fruit vendors are not welcome in Curaçao. This is according to a statement made by the Prime Minister of Curaçao More...
Crisis Venezuela high on agenda Minister Blok
WILLEMSTAD - Minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs travels today for a visit to Sint Maarten, Aruba, Curaçao and Colombia where he will mainly talk about the worrisome situation in Venezuela. Venezuela is in a More...
