Stress factors
While the link between stress and heart attacks and strokes is well known, scientists have long failed to establish the exact cause. Now they believe they have finally cracked it, and it all comes down to heightened activity in the amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to stress. The amygdala readies the body for harmful experiences, such as being More...
National Health Insurance
The National Health Insurance is a work in progress but its completion is still a long way away. As Professor Wynand van de Ven explains in our front page story, this does not mean that the country should do nothing More...
Gestapo
The ease with which politicians use comparisons with the Second World War to characterize the attitude of the Netherlands towards St. Maarten is – to use a Frans Richardson expression – unfortunate. Yesterday More...
A controversial honeypot
The speed and hurry of the outgoing cabinet to contract the new operator for the Isla refinery and the Bullen Bay has created a lot of unrest in Curacao, Caribisch Netwerk and NOS-correspondent Dick Drayer writes More...
Pipedream
Princess Cruise Lines is “extremely disappointed in its personnel,” the company said after it received a $40 million fine in a court in Miami for environmental violations that have been going on since 2005. We More...
Causal mechanism
Marijuana poses a greater mental health risk than any other substance, including class A drugs, according to new research out of Denmark. Regular users of the herb, particularly its super-strength varieties, were More...
Rudderless
The situation at the Cadastre is screaming for a solution, as is the one at TelEm that has been rudderless without a CEO for more than seven years now. Both the company and the land registry office are important More...
Responsibility
Here we go again: a lying witness in court. And again: lying did not help him at all. The case at hand is about a 16-year-old boy, accused initially of attempted manslaughter with a machete and finally sentenced More...
Risky business
Doing business with the government is not without risk. One would think that, if there is one solid creditor, it would be the country. But it isn’t, and it does not even have anything to do with the question whether More...
Accessibility
The story about accessibility – or rather the lack thereof – in Bonaire could have been written about St. Maarten. If we look at the main shopping streets in Philipsburg, there is no way wheelchair-bound citizens More...
