Smoke at Goisco
WILLEMSTAD - The wholesale giant Goisco had to keep its doors closed yesterday after a fire alarm in the early morning. Upon arrival of the fire department, there was smoke coming out of the kitchen area. One of More...
Luxury yacht burned down
WILLEMSTAD - Last weekend a 65-foot yacht of the Sunseeker type went up in flames. The boat was docked at the Curaçao Yacht Club. After the outbreak of the fire, the surrounding boats were immediately removed and More...
Parts of Sorsaka plantation house burned down
WILLEMSTAD - Early this morning a part of Sorsaka country house burned down. It was popularly called the residence of the Lieutenant Governor. Lizanne Dindial was the last resident during her term as Lieutenant More...
Oil refinery to restart part of destroyed installation tomorrow
WILLEMSTAD - The installation of the Isla which was completely destroyed by fire in May this year, the Crude Distiller 3, as it is called, will be restarted tomorrow. Then follow other parts of the cat cracker where More...
Veeris residents are fed up with bush fire
WILLEMSTAD - Almost every week it's the same problem; bush fire at the Veeris area. It happened yesterday again. And this time it was a big one. It had a huge smoke development as a consequence. The fire brigade More...
Oil refinery fully operational again at the end of September
WILLEMSTAD - The oil refinery Isla expects to be fully operational again by the end of September. This after a fire broke out in the Crude Distiller 3 on May 21 this year. This is according to Henny Cornelia in More...
Fire at Isla oil refinery under control
WILLEMSTAD – Fire broke out this morning at the Isla refinery in Curaçao. It broke out at around 5:40 am local time and was contained about three and a half hours later. There were no victims. Several firefighters More...
Sad moment for downtown; fire destroys two stores in Otrabanda
WILLEMSTAD – Fire raged last night around 23:00 in downtown Otrabanda. It destroyed two stores in Main Street; Kris Kross and Favorite Shop. It didn’t take long for the flames to engulf the two buildings. The More...
Fire at oil refinery
WILLEMSTAD – The oil refinery Isla informs that today April 11, 2016 at 9 am a fire started at the New Asphalt Burning System (NABS) plant. The fire fighting department of the oil refinery worked hard to contain More...
Large fire in industrial Brievengat area
WILLEMSTAD - In the night from Saturday to Sunday there was a large fire, which destroyed four warehouses in the industrial area in Brievengat. One of the warehouses was from Building Depot. The main store was also More...
