Caribbean islands can expect greater influx of Venezuelans
WILLEMSTAD - Aruba and Curaçao must be prepared for even more refugees from Venezuela. In Aruba, Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago together there are now an estimated 147,000 Venezuelan More...
UNCR presents plan for Venezuelan refugees
NEW YORK - 95 organizations from 16 countries have presented a large-scale plan to deal with the flow of refugees from Venezuela. This is according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCR) who More...
Islands have their own human rights watchdog
WILLEMSTAD - Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire have their own 'human rights watchdog' since yesterday. The Human Rights Caribbean Foundation. The foundation was created by concerned citizens as a result of the humanitarian More...
Venezuelan refugee officer may not be deported for the time being
WILLEMSTAD - Lino Jose Ordoñez Zavala may stay for the time being. But the Venezuelan official who fled to Curaçao in August together with a Venezuelan sergeant and applied for political asylum here has not been 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...
Destructive report on dealing with Venezuelans
WILLEMSTAD - Curacao violates the human rights of Venezuelans coming this way illegally in many areas. That became clear in a devastating report from human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch More...
Parliament asks about fled Venezuela sergeant
THE HAGUE - The Permanent Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament wants clarity from Minister of Foreign Affairs Stef Blok on the status of the Venezuelan sergeant who fled to More...
Fleeing Venezuelan military will not be expelled for now
WILLEMSTAD - Curaçao is not going to expel the fled sergeant from the Venezuelan army. That's what the Minister of Justice announced after reports from several media on the situation of the Venezuelan refugee. The More...
Former Venezuelan military formally requests asylum
WILLEMSTAD - Through a local lawyer the Venezuelan military who illegally arrived on the island by boat last Friday requested political asylum. According to the asylum request (seen by Curaçao Chronicle), the man 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...
