Haiti ‘laden with challenges’ but also hope, UN Security Council told
NEW YORK - Haiti is “laden with challenges, but also hope”, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, against the backdrop of ongoing political unrest in the Caribbean More...
UN seeks $738M to help Venezuela’s neighbors handle migrant flood
GENEVA - The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking $738 million in 2019 to help neighboring countries cope with the inflow of millions of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, who have “no prospect for return More...
UN Committee concerned about prison, says finances no reason for continued derogation
Poses 180 questions to Kingdom at human rights hearing ~ PHILIPSBURG - The United Nations Committee on Torture stressed its ongoing concerns about the St. Maarten prison system, indicating that while it can appreciate More...
Immigration Service holds Venezuelan refugee unjustly
WILLEMSTAD - The immigration service is still holding a Venezuelan military in prison, while he should have been freed weeks ago. It concerns the sergeant who arrived on the island with a boat in August and applied More...
HRW: The Netherlands must protect Venezuelan refugees
THE HAGUE, WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao is falling short in its policy towards Venezuelan refugees. This is according to human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Due to the severe political and economic crisis in More...
UNDP mobilized US$25 million, restored buildings and boosted preparedness in hurricane-affected Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has helped mobilize US$25 million, supported the revision and use of improved building codes and restored over 800 buildings for the most at-need people More...
Minister of Justice: “Curaçao does not violate human rights”
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao has since 2012 sheltered almost 8000 Venezuelans who have been eligible for a residence permit. That is 5% of the total population of the island. In addition, it appears (in anticipation of More...
A fleeing Venezuelan sergeant asks for asylum
WILLEMSTAD - A fleeing Venezuelan sergeant is behind bars in the special barracks for illegal aliens of the Curaçao (SDKK) prison. Together with a Venezuelan official who has also fled, he has applied for asylum. In More...
UN: Estimated 2.3M people have fled Venezuela
UNITED NATIONS - An estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans had fled the crisis-wracked country as of June, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, the United Nations said Tuesday. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric More...
Venezuelans fleeing to Trinidad expose cracks in island refugee policy
PORT OF SPAIN - Underneath a sign reading “Jesus was a refugee”, a line of Venezuelan asylum seekers 30 people long stretches in front of a Catholic church in Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain. They have fled More...
