
Venezuelan ladies arrested at snack bar
WILLEMSTAD - The police have arrested an unknown number of Venezuelan ladies yesterday. They did not have any valid residence papers with them. This police action took place at a snack bar on the Avesweg in Buena More...

At least 15 undocumented people arrested during inspections
WILLEMSTAD - Early Friday morning, police teams, together with staff from the Immigration and Tax Administration BAB, visited various locations, including in Suffisant, at the Gosieweg, Rooseveltweg and in Otrobanda. There, More...

Police arrest man at Venezuela’s request
WILLEMSTAD - The police have arrested a 55-year-old Venezuelan man early this morning at a hotel in the Bapor Kibra area. He stayed there together with a woman in a hotel. The arrest follows a request from the Venezuelan More...

Police detained 32 foreigners
WILLEMSTAD - The police performed checks at various dance clubs and nightclubs last Friday. In addition, 32 people were arrested who were unable to show residence permits. It concerns both men and women. They have More...

Destruction in foreigners’ barracks
WILLEMSTAD - Detained Venezuelans have wreaked havoc in the foreigners' barracks of the Curaçao prison. That is what the government says in a press release. As a result, the reception capacity has drastically decreased. Foreign More...

Deportation can take place without legal assistance
WILLEMSTAD - The immediate deportation of illegal Venezuelans without legal assistance is not against the law. This is according to the Minister of Justice Quincy Girigorie. The deportation order that illegal immigrants More...

Scheperboer and Witteveen: Curaçao violates international laws with deportation of Venezuelans
WILLEMSTAD - Curacao is guilty of violating international laws. This is what lawyer Berend Scheperboer and concerned citizen Ieteke Witteveen said about the imminent deportation of eight illegal Venezuelan women. The More...

17 Venezuelans escape from old police cells Rio Canario
WILLEMSTAD - Minister Girigorie of Justice asked his Dutch colleague Grapperhaus for facilities and resources to increase the capacity for temporary shelter of arrested illegals. It concerns the temporary shelter More...

Border closure means that undocumented Venezuelans cannot be deported
WILLEMSTAD - The decision of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to keep the borders for air traffic out of Curacao closed has as a consequence that Venezuelans who are staying illegally on the island cannot More...

Haitians in US dreading deportation
NEW YORK - Haitian-born Bernedy Prosper and his son Harold have called the United States for more than a decade now, but deportation is now staring them in the face. A broken Prosper, 52, laments that this is worst More...