Jackass Airport
Believe it or not, there exists an airport called Jackass Aeropark, although it is no longer in use. It is situated northwest of Las Vegas and was named after an area in the Amargosa Valley where wild jackasses More...
Combating Recession in the Caribbean through Cooperation
[Publisher’s note: The article below was first published in April under the title ‘THE economy opportunity of the moment‘. Erroneously, this article was republished under the above heading ‘Combating More...
Orkaan COVID-19
door John Leerdam Er zijn orkanen en er zijn orkanen. Er zijn orkanen zoals Irma, en er is een orkaan zoals Covid-19 die wereldwijd economieën heeft verwoest. Kwetsbare economieën zoals die op Curaçao worden More...
20 mei 2020 leidde tot verbittering bij Aruba, Curacao en Sint Maarten
door John Leerdam Staatssecretaris Raymond Knops heeft de buit binnen. Hij kan tevreden zijn. Alle drie de regeringen van de overzeese Koninkrijksdelen Aruba, Sint Maarten en Curaçao dus, zijn akkoord gegaan met More...
Regeringen Aruba, Curaçao en Sint Maarten moeten armoedebeleid ontwikkelen
door John Leerdam Het hing in de lucht. Op donderdag 14 mei jongstleden haalde aan de vooravond van de Rijksministerraad de Curaçaose minister-president uit naar Nederland. Hij vond dat hij werd behandeld als loopjongen More...
Outside St. Maarten
By Hilbert Haar It’s been two years since I left St. Maarten. Yeah, I left because I never wanted to experience another hurricane again, so if you want to interpret that as a lack of stamina that’s just fine More...
The Golden Guilder
On St. Maarten, banks and the government are advising the general population to use guilders as much as possible, as a way to save dollars. I agree wholeheartedly with this advice. Here is why. When the dollars More...
Zero Hour: Our Region in the Face of the Pandemic
By Alicia Bárcena Ibarra* Everything seems to be one gigantic mistake. We console ourselves by saying that everything has happened as it should not have happened. But it is we who are mistaken, not history. We More...
The Mayans already knew about 2020
by Cdr. Bud Slabbaert Archeologist Professore Anzio de Castamilliana y Fonsata, when excavating in the Central American region of San Ramador, recently found a Mayan tablet with inscriptions. He was able to decipher More...
Nobody seemed familiar with the term social distancing
The corona-virus in Kuala Lumpur: Nobody seemed familiar with the term social distancing By Hilbert Haar I briefly wondered whether it was wise to travel abroad towards the end of January. We wanted to escape the More...
