Curaçao flooded by refugees: ‘crisis unacceptable’
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao is currently being flooded with refugees from Venezuela, but there is a total lack of help on the island. "The situation is worrisome and unacceptable," says Tineke Ceelen, director of Refugee More...
UN Refugee Agency ramps up support for Venezuelans
CARACAS - With the help of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Colombia is showing “extraordinary solidarity” towards Venezuelans displaced amid the country’s on-going economic and political crisis, said agency More...
Letter to Curaçaoan and Dutch Authorities on Venezuela Asylum Seekers
To Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relation Raymond Knops, State Secretary Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Stef Blok, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Kingdom of the Netherlands Quincy More...
Venezuela says Colombia’s president shielding Maduro’s attackers
CARACAS - Venezuela kept up its war of words on neighbor Colombia on Sunday, saying its president Ivan Duque was shielding the authors of an alleged attempt to assassinate its president Nicolas Maduro. Caracas More...
Blok is going to demand attention for Venezuela in Europe
WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Kingdom Stef Blok is going to draw attention to the influx of Venezuelan refugees to Curaçao and Aruba. He will do this at the meeting of all Ministers More...
Senior US lawmaker on foreign relations to visit Venezuela
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will travel to Venezuela “to assess the current situation,” a spokeswoman said, amid tensions between Caracas and Washington. The spokeswoman More...
10% of the population is Venezuelan
WILLEMSTAD - The Minister of Justice Quincy Girigorie indicated during a debate in parliament that 26,000 Venezuelans live in Curaçao. Almost 10,000 of them have a residence permit and are legally on the island. 16,000 More...
Transshipment Bullen Bay in danger because of conflict PDVSA and ConocoPhillips
WILLEMSTAD - According to reliable sources, Curaçao is the victim of the conflict between Venezuela and ConocoPhillips. Since the seizure of the Americans, crude oil from Venezuela goes directly to China and not More...
The New Venezuelan Currency Is Just Three Weeks Old and Inflation’s Already 100%
CARACAS - It’s just been a few weeks since the rollout of Venezuela’s new money, and inflation in this new monetary era is already 100 percent. After a week and a half of no changes in the Bloomberg Cafe Con More...
The Netherlands has no legal obligation to intervene in Curaçao
THE HAGUE, WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao itself is responsible for implementing an adequate migration policy, says Undersecretary for Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops today on a critical report from Amnesty International More...
