
Answers Parliamentary questions Van Raak on gold smuggling from Venezuela via Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire
THE HAGUE - Questions from the member Van Raak (SP) to the Undersecretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations about gold smuggling from Venezuela via Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. (submitted February 14, 2018) 1 How More...

Knops responds to Van Putten warning
THE HAGUE - Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops seems unimpressed by the warning of dismissed Member of the St. Eustatius Island Council Clyde van Putten of the Progressive More...

Lower stipend for World Bank
THE HAGUE - The Dutch Government has made a new arrangement with the World Bank which will bring down the price that the organisation will receive for managing the Trust Fund for St. Maarten’s reconstruction by More...

Knops: “No money from the Netherlands for Venezuelan problem”
THE HAGUE, WILLEMSTAD - The Undersecretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops reiterates that the Netherlands does not provide financial aid when Venezuelans leave their country en masse and come More...

Dutch Parliament concerned about gambling sector in Curaçao
THE HAGUE - The Dutch government will try to prevent illegal gambling in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. This is what Undersecretary Raymond Knops of the Interior and Kingdom Relations writes on behalf of Minister More...

No financial assistance for Curaçao to give asylum to Venezuelan refugees
WILLEMSTAD - The Netherlands does not intend to assist Curaçao and Aruba in the costs of giving asylum to Venezuelans who try to migrate to the islands. In government circles in both Willemstad and Oranjestad there More...

Undersecretary requests more time to answer questions on gold smuggling
THE HAGUE - The Undersecretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops informed the Member of the Dutch Parliament Ronald van Raak that the answers on his questions about gold smuggling from Venezuela More...

Knops delays answers to Van Raak’s questions for offshore and gambling industry Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
THE HAGUE - The Undersecretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Raymond Knops informed the Member of the Dutch Parliament for the Socialist Party Ronald van Raak that his questions about the responsibility More...

Knops stands behind Commissioner Franco
THE HAGUE - Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops will not honour a Party for Freedom PVV request to have a person from the Netherlands serve as the Dutch Government Commissioner More...

Consultation on border closure without result
THE HAGUE, WILLEMSTAD - At various levels there has been contact between the Kingdom and Venezuelan authorities over the continuing border blockade against the ABC islands over the past few weeks. This is stated More...